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A photo of the Aberdeen Tidal Basin taken in 2010 from Pocra Quay. On Albert Quay on the left of the photo one of the Jigsaw ships can been seen, in the centre one of the Fugro survey ships. Towards the right is the entrance to the Inner Dock which used, back in the old days, to have lock gates. This made it a very narrow entrance, so the Harbour Board removed the gates and widened the entrance, but as can be seen they stick ships in it - so it is still pretty narrow.
Support for offshore structures vary in different parts of the world, the UK regulations requiring a ERRV or standby vessel, capable of recovering survivors of a disaster from the sea. This is one, the Putford Acasta, now long gone, since it was sold to Saudi company Al Mojil years ago. I have been prompted to post it due to a question about the El Faro someone asking whether an assigned loadline could still result in an unsafe vessel. So what do you think of this one?
This photograph dates from before I started using an electric camera and has been lying about on my desk for a number of years - for some reason. So I thought I would publish it. The three ships are in Tananger the, the offshore port for Stavanger in Norway. I was captain of the ship on the left the Star Polaris, a UT 704 Mk III. Nest to it is a UT 705, the name of which I don't remember known and "the reindeer' for obvious reasons, and on the right a Seaforth ME 303 Probably the Seaforth Crusader, a very early example of Korean OSV construction.