At Cleveleys near Blackpool, the Stemat Spirit cable barge arrived just off shore in the afternoon of Saturday 7 May. It beached in the early hours of Sunday 8 May in the morning, waiting for very low tide. At about 9 a.m., the process of pulling the cable from the spool on board the barge began.
Up till now, Stemat Spirit has managed to lay 7 kilometres of the 29-kilometre long submarine cable, running half the 44-kilometre long distance from the offshore substation in Walney 2 to the onshore substation at Cleveleys. The first section of the export cable will be laid from the shore of Cleveleys and onwards the site.