Thanks to Anthony for the Photos of Western Neptune (Bottom) and Raymond Crozier (Top)
Author: PeterZ
This afternoon we will see Bunkering – US Style. In Halifax (And much of the rest of the world im told) Bunkering is done from a smallish dedicated Tanker – such as our own Algoma Dartmouth, and the NT Dartmouth before that. The shuttle tankers Kometik and Mattea will be
The France Telecom Marine ship Raymond Croze arrived this morning and tied up at Pier 30. Alas The port had containers in the way so i coculdnt get an unobstructed view of her. Updated – Picture from the Dartmouth Side.
The Western Neptune is Survey vessel belonging to Western Geco. Such vessels are used in sub sea geophisical surveys – typically for oil and gas. Western Geco appears to specialize in surveying existing resevoirs, so they may be here doing work on the Sable or Deep Panuke gas fields.
Kometik, Sporting A fresh paint job. You can see her back in June in a previous post.
Thanks to Scott, A crewmember on the Kometik, for tweeting me some pictures while they are at anchor.
Jewel of the Seas, Passing York Redoubt
She looks to be in rough shape, which is not unsurprising given she spent 6 weeks under water. The Port Authority was hoping to seel her to recover costs. It doesnt look like there is anything of value left.
The Image above is all traffic in Halifax Harbour, for the month of November 2011. (1:150000 scale) (Below 1:7500 scale HalTerm)
HMCS Kingston, Running in the Bedford Basin today. She appears to be running with the Route Survey package, with a towed sonar. The Route Survey Package allows the ship to produce state of the art, high quality imagery of the ocean bottom with the use of multi-beam side scan sonar