This has been put into place just the other day, several hundred metres off the YSW ferry pier.

Anybody got an idea what it's for?

Mini oil drilling rig?
HK Electric undersea cable repair or maintenance?
Related to the Sewage Treatment plant outfall pipes?
New sightseeing spot or Lamma Marine Park?
Scuba diving platform?
Seabird watching/photographing hideout?

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Its for taking Core samples of the sea bed and underlying rock.

Probably parked there or maybe for the sewage

The next Cartier party is going to be be really exclusive!

As a Lamma newbie, I was quite shocked by this eyesore's sudden appearance.

My question: How long will I have to look at this ugly piece of crap on my way to work everyday?

I'm also surprised by the mild response on the forums. I thought people would be up in arms about this. This forum just seems to shrug.

Do people just randomly put up ugly industrial platforms in the ferry harbor? Will it be gone soon?

I guess I am usually too rush in the morning to enjoy the pier view, but alas, it is such an eye sore. Hope it will be gone soon.

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OK, the guessing game has gone on for long enough. I've enquired with a few official sources and my second (serious) guess above was right.

Email from the Sewage Treatment Plant builders:

"This sea platform is a drilling rig for marine site investigation from our sub-contractor under our sewage project to determine the geological profile under the seabed as a preparation work for the submarine outfall construction in coming months.

This sea platform will keep stay on site(sea) for works for about 2 weeks more."<HR>
Here's the map, published in the Lamma-zine a few weeks back (Nov 2: Sewerage Construction, When Will It End?) showing the 500 metre long Sewage Treatment Plant's "Submarine Outfall" pipe:

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Like I said, a poo pipe.

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Short & concise, Marc Antony.

I think the sewage engineers might not full agree, after all that future, fancy, very expensive (200+ million $s?) Sewage Treatment Plant is supposed to clean up all our poo before discharging it outside our harbour.

But should I call my Lamma-zine story on this topic "Drilling Rig for Site Investigation for Submarine Outfall of Sewage Treatment Plant", as I originally planned, or "THE POO PIPE"???

You win! Thanks for a great headline!

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I just got Google-Alerted to a few more details about this "Marine Site Investigation", see this notice from the Marine Dept.
http://www.mardep.gov.hk/en/notices/pdf/mdn11002.pdf

It looks like they're going to move the platform by tugboat a few more times along the future "Poo Pipe", ever closer to the Sewage Treatment Plant (currently under construction until 2014), boring more holes into the seabed to investigate the suitability of the seabed for the submarine Poo Pipe.
Works will probably be completed by Chin. New Year, first week of Feb.

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