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Old 26-02-2006, 04:32 PM
beren
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Fremantle harbour

Last Saturday had the chance to tour a seismic survey ship that had to come into port at Fremantle harbour . My Dad who works in the Oil/Gas exploration industry as a consultant has spent some time working aboard it around the world and was keen to take up the opportunity to give us a tour.Very interesting to see first hand on what happens aboard and the complexity involved is quite mindblowing. The basic operation of the vessel is to carry out seismic surveys of suspected areas that may yield and support oil and gas mining operations . Vast systems {can be up to 4km in length} of optical cable are feed out from the back of the ship and sound waves are generated to give detailed data of the makeup of the surveyed seabed .Anyway here's some pics of the ship covering the bridge, the massive network of cables at the back of the ship , the deck and a couple showing operations . The pics don't really give justice to the size of the ship both viewed from the outside and inside

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