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Old 23rd February 2017, 17:53   #61
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You have led a fascinating and active work life. Your photos inspired me to post up the Loch Fyne visit, thank you. I never had the chance to visit the Falklands before I hung up my boots, but have been to BATSUB in Belize to do an air ambulance, a Medi-Vac back to RAF Valley. I enjoyed looking at your maritime photos and reading the stories behind them. Please do keep them coming.
Many thanks. I consider myself very lucky to have visited so many countries, and met so many wonderful people during my time at sea. I have to say that my eleven years in the Falklands and South Georgia were extremely pleasant. (Apart from the not occasional bad weather.) Working with the Tri-Services was so refreshing in comparison to the commercial sector. The men and women were a pleasure to work with, and we all mucked in together to get the jobs done.

As a youngster "The Tales of Para Handy" was one of my favourite TV series, and it was a pleasant surprise to see the Vital Spark in your photograph of Loch Fyne. It is a pleasing, well composed image, and cleaned up very well.

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Cargoes for the radar sites etc were lifted off by the "Wokka" (Chinook). There were dangers of static discharges, so the "hooker" would be lowered down to ensure that it was done safely.



After the discharge was complete he was lifted back off again.

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Soviet submarine C-189 (S-189) is a floating museum. Built at St. Petersburg's Baltic Factory and launched in 1954, the C-189 is a 613-class diesel-electric submarine that saw 35 years service in the Soviet fleet. Decommissioned in 1990, the C-189 eventually sank in the harbour at Kronshtadt, but was rescued in 2005 by a local businessman and former submariner, who decided to turn the vessel into a museum.



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A much older submarine, the "Peral" was the first electric battery-powered submarine, built by the Spanish engineer and sailor Isaac Peral for the Spanish Navy. The first fully capable military submarine, she was launched 8 September 1888. She had one torpedo tube (two torpedoes) and an air regeneration system.



The Paseo Alfonso XII, the port of Cartagena, Spain.

The Spanish Navy are building a new class of diesel electric submarines, the first one to be her namesake "Isaac Peral". She has not fared so well due to an engineer putting a decimal point in the wrong place! She is 70 tons too heavy and may not be able to resurface.

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"Donna Wood" arriving at Copenhagen. She was originally built in 1918 as 21.5 meter lighthouse ship No 3 by Rasmus Møller in Faaborg on Funen. The hull is copperplated all over.



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A couple of seals use one of the north channel markers as a convenient resting place. Dalgety Bay in the background.



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A colourful scene as a CityCat leaves the jetty and heads up the Brisbane River.



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In the North Sea in the mid 1970s we had a hot-shot to take two boxes (explosives) to the location of the Venture One drilling rig. The well was collapsing and needed to be cut, so the boxes were designated as the "well-head cutting device". We were not to mention the "E" word over the radio!



Arriving on location we could see that the rig was indeed in trouble, and was flaring off to try and keep the pressure under control.



The Captain called the rig to say that we had the well-head cutting device, but they told us to stand off as they were too busy. We could see oil, sand, and other debris falling into the sea under the very dirty burn. Despite calling them on numerous occasions we were told to stay clear. The wind direction kept changing, making it a dangerous situation for them with the flare.



The Captain decided to break protocol and said that we had the explosives on board. The rig then called back to say get alongside immediately, and asked where we had been as they were desperate for the package. He told them that we had been on location for twelve hours with their well-head cutting device.

The reply from the rig was, "Oh."
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Great pics. That last on is really good.
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Cheers Paul. That was back in the days of experimenting with black and white film.

It was an intense time, as the previous year I had been on the Fateh field off Dubai where there had been a similar incident. The well had reached just over 4,000 feet when a "kick" occurred. When gas bubbled up under the platform the kick control was terminated and the rig abandoned. The gas ignited, and the rig and platform disappeared under the sea.

I'll see if I can resurrect a couple of the slides, but they are in poor condition.

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Apologies for the very poor image quality, but these are purely to illustrate what happened at Fateh. These were just "grab" shots, as things were pretty busy.

On arrival at night it looked as if the whole complex was on fire.



In daylight it was seen that the fire was beyond the complex.



Moving further round, the sea was literally boiling.



The estimated cost was $79,000,000 - current value $340,000,000
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