STATION KEEPING STUDY OF OFFSHORE AQUACULTURE OCEANIC FARMING SYSTEM

Offshore aquaculture system require reliable structural integrity and mooring system design for ultimate state limit, fatigue state limit and accidental and progressive state limit against environmental loading and accidental loading. To avoid mooring system failure, selecting an appropriate breaking strength and limit state for mooring system components is necessary. Suitable mooring system has been designed by group of researchers at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. Valuable information was obtained from Technip and BV. The system has been tested in towing tank in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. This paper describes mooring system design that account for forces and environmental loadings. The paper describes evaluation of optimum mooring performance in wave, wind and current loadings on mooring components anchor buoy and riser elements that are involved the mooring system dynamics.