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**placidfemme** · 14th June 2006, 09:48

haha... just classic

**Switch** · 14th June 2006, 13:45

hahahaha

**Eurodave** · 14th June 2006, 13:51

CUT THE COOK STRAIT CABLE!!!!, THEN WITH ANY LUCK, THE NORTH ISLAND WILL JUST SLOWLY DRIFT AWAY INTO THE TASMAN SEA, TAKING ALL THE BLOODY WHINGING DORKLANDERS WITH IT

**sAsLEX** · 14th June 2006, 14:28

Originally Posted by Eurodave

CUT THE COOK STRAIT CABLE!!!!, THEN WITH ANY LUCK, THE NORTH ISLAND WILL JUST SLOWLY DRIFT AWAY INTO THE TASMAN SEA, TAKING ALL THE BLOODY WHINGING DORKLANDERS WITH IT

And you guys will be without power in a drought! lol

The HVDC has been flowing south mainly in recent times!

**Flatcap** · 14th June 2006, 18:46

Originally Posted by Eurodave

CUT THE COOK STRAIT CABLE!!!!, THEN WITH ANY LUCK, THE NORTH ISLAND WILL JUST SLOWLY DRIFT AWAY INTO THE TASMAN SEA, TAKING ALL THE BLOODY WHINGING DORKLANDERS WITH IT

What would you do without our tax dollars to pave your roads down there?

Oh, thats right - ride on gravel

**Madness** · 14th June 2006, 18:55

The Cook Strait power cable is so fragile that a company is contracted by Transpower to sit out there in a boat to monitor the exclusion zone. Those buggers are out there all year 'round. They come into Welly weekly for supplies/shift changes and hide behind Karori during bad southerlies. The fine for fishing, be it recreational or commercial, is quite large.

You'd think that they would have put two cables down, one for a spare?

**yungatart** · 14th June 2006, 19:05

Originally Posted by Eurodave

CUT THE COOK STRAIT CABLE!!!!, THEN WITH ANY LUCK, THE NORTH ISLAND WILL JUST SLOWLY DRIFT AWAY INTO THE TASMAN SEA, TAKING ALL THE BLOODY WHINGING DORKLANDERS WITH IT

Hey, no fair!!!! There is a WHOLE lot of the North Island that doesn't include Auckland, from the Bombays south and Northland to you know!!! We're not all dorklanders!!

**junglegirl** · 14th June 2006, 19:23

[QUOTE=yungatart]Hey, no fair!!!! There is a WHOLE lot of the North Island that doesn't include Auckland, from the Bombays south and Northland to you know!!! [QUOTE]
Yeah, I'd be happy to lose just the whole top of the Nth Island.

**oldrider** · 14th June 2006, 19:31

Originally Posted by MAXIMUSDEMERITUS

The Cook Strait power cable is so fragile that a company is contracted by Transpower to sit out there in a boat to monitor the exclusion zone. Those buggers are out there all year 'round. They come into Welly weekly for supplies/shift changes and hide behind Karori during bad southerlies. The fine for fishing, be it recreational or commercial, is quite large.

You'd think that they would have put two cables down, one for a spare?

There are about six of them but most of them are stuffed, unless there has been a lot of work done in the last five years.

**far queue** · 14th June 2006, 21:35

Originally Posted by Fairlie

What would you do without our tax dollars to pave your roads down there?

I understood all the roading money for the country was actually being diverted to Dorkland anyway, so I think that our roading would be better off without you lot.

Originally Posted by Fairlie

Oh, thats right - ride on gravel

Bring it on, gravel's fun

**UrbanMyth** · 14th June 2006, 21:43

hahah nice skills thats so rad!

**Jantar** · 14th June 2006, 22:32

Originally Posted by oldrider

There are about six of them but most of them are stuffed, unless there has been a lot of work done in the last five years.

Three cables were laid across the Cook Strait when the HVDC link was first established. I can't remember the exacy year, but I beleive it was the early 1960's. They were expected to last 30 years. By 1992 when the new Soilid State pole 2 was established, one of the original cables was u/s and one was losing nitrogen at a rapid rate.

Three new cables were laid in 1991. Again with an expected life expectancy of 30 years. As far as I'm aware, the present state is 2 good cables, 2 damaged cables and 2 u/s. 2 cables are required for full transfer.

**Karma** · 14th June 2006, 22:56

Originally Posted by MAXIMUSDEMERITUS

The Cook Strait power cable is so fragile that a company is contracted by Transpower to sit out there in a boat to monitor the exclusion zone. Those buggers are out there all year 'round. They come into Welly weekly for supplies/shift changes and hide behind Karori during bad southerlies. The fine for fishing, be it recreational or commercial, is quite large.

You'd think that they would have put two cables down, one for a spare?

Well there are similar fines for fishing within the network corridor in Auckland.

Telecom runs a line out from Takapuna which if cut would cost about $750,000 to replace (loss of earnings etc...)

**sexy beast** · 14th June 2006, 23:05

Telecom runs a line out from Takapuna which if cut would cost about $750,000 to replace (loss of earnings etc...)

me and a mate were caught once in takapuna fishing in a no fish/no anchor zone....first timer so i got off, couple of nice guys gave us some pamphlets and maps.....etc etc...bloody hell just before they came in on us we managed to free our anchor which (we realised later) was...yea stuck in the cables....that was close...wheewww!!!