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Survey operations for Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) officially commenced in June 2025. Prysmian, the main EPCI contractor, commissioned Next Geosolutions to carry out comprehensive land topographic and marine geophysical surveys along the nearshore and offshore sections of the proposed 190 km subsea cable corridor between Torness (East Lothian) and Hawthorn Pit (County Durham). The campaign deployed advanced survey vessels and ROVs to collect multibeam echosounder (MBES), side-scan sonar (SSS) and sub-bottom profiling data to inform final route micro‑routing, cable burial requirements and risk mitigation ahead of cable installation. The programme was described as the critical data-gathering phase for detailed design and engineering and was scheduled across 2025.