Hazard and Risks Assessment

This project builds upon the established corridor between Bermuda and Nova Scotia by conducting a focused environmental and navigational hazard overlay analysis. The goal is to evaluate how key marine ecosystems and risk factors intersect with a proposed subsea cable route.

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The analysis incorporates multiple hazard datasets—including shipwrecks, saltmarshes, coral reefs, cold-water corals, and world protected areas—to identify and classify potential conflict areas along the route. Other hazard layers, such as piracy activity, mangrove habitats, and seagrass beds, were excluded from the final overlay due to their absence within the study area or their distance from the corridor, which posed no direct risk to the cable system.

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Using geospatial overlay techniques, the project maps and quantifies intersections between the corridor buffer and each relevant hazard layer. This approach allows for early identification of high-risk segments and supports informed decision-making for route refinement, permitting, and environmental impact assessments.