Traffic Separation Scheme   Leave a comment

Crossing between the mainland and the Isles of Scilly…

The Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) will certainly give you something to look at. The TSS crosses  the middle third of your voyage, a massive maritime motorway. The two ‘lanes’ that you cross  (north going, then south going) are each 4.5km wide with a 3km ‘central reservation’. Despite the wide lanes, the big ships tend to form up in a single line cutting the corner from the Channel to the North Atlantic by the shortest route. The sight of container vessels stretching back to the horizon is pretty memorable.

From South West Sea Kayaking

Posted January 16, 2012 by MRY in Isles of Scilly, Kayaking, Land's End, Open crossings

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