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Michelle O'Sullivan

Executive Engineer at Mayo County Council, Ireland, who appeared on The Broadcast discussing a large Nova Scotian buoy that washed ashore on an Irish beach.

Oct 7, 2026

3:02
And, and just to describe this, 'cause this thing is massive, [laughs] right?
3:08
It is.
3:08
You know, we, we have an awful lot of this infrastructure here in our own waters in Mayo, and it is, I would say, safely twice the size of a, mm, the vast majority of our buoys here.
3:19
It's currently weighing in at about five ton, what I've been told today by the Canadian Coast Guard.
3:24
They estimate, you know, full weight on that, them s- should be five and a half ton.
3:29
Obviously there's a few bits missing off it that lo- it lost on its way over here, but yeah, it is i- incredibly large.
3:36
And it's, it's one that I wasn't aware of.
7:36
this thing ended up being a major hazard, you know?

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