2022, Anatec, Outer Dowsing, Array Area, Marine Traffic and AIS Survey, Winter series https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=010_a9135dbc9c1852a66320cc69e582d341 As part of the Navigational Risk Assessment (NRA) process for the proposed Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind (ODOW) project (here after referred to as â??the Projectâ??), vessel traffic survey data is being gathered within a study area around the development. To ensure full compliance with Marine Guidance Note (MGN) 654 (Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), 2021), this 14-day survey meets the winter season requirements of the MCA and combined with the 14- day summer survey carried out in August 2022, a full 28-days of seasonal vessel traffic has been obtained. This report presents the analysis of the 14-day vessel traffic dataset collected from the survey vessel Karima between 15th and 29th November 2022. The primary objective of the survey was to identify and validate the routeing of vessels and the level of vessel activity within a 10 nautical mile (nm) buffer zone (the â??study areaâ??) around the project site (the â??array areaâ??). This was achieved by recording, in real time, the positions of vessels within range of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver and Automatic Radio Detection and Ranging (Radar) Plotting Aid (ARPA), supplemented by observation of vessels within visual range to obtain information on type and size where the information was not available via AIS. 20230302