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The interior of the radio room, with telex equipement, taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) (Colour transparency)
A waterfall feeding into the Panama Canal taken from the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) (Colour transparency)
Crewmen reeving new wires through a suction head lifting block on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) at sea (Colour transparency)
Crewmen running new wires into a reel winch on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) at sea (Colour transparency)
Crewmen running new wires into a reel winch on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) at sea (Colour transparency)
The ship mascot 'Snow Maiden' in the wheelhouse taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) (Colour transparency)
An ice barrier in the Beaufort Sea, taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) at sea (Colour transparency)
Interior of the bar on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) (Colour transparency)
The suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) approaching the Lower Gatun lock at the Panama Canal (Colour transparency)
Thickening ice in the Beaufort Sea taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) at sea (Colour transparency)
A starboard quarter view of the offshore exploitation support vessel Stena Welder (1977) taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) in the Firth of Forth, Scotland (Colour transparency)
Captain Derek Wisden and the Third Officer (nicknamed Brutus) in the wheelhouse of the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) (Colour transparency)
A distant view of Cape Dezhnyov (formerly known as East Cape) in the Bering Sea, Eastern Siberia, taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) at sea (Colour transparency)
Ice floes in the Chukchi Sea, taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) at sea (Colour transparency)
Small ice floes in the Chukchi Sea, taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view of the interior of the bridge with the Dredging Mate at the precision position fixer console, taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) in the Firth of Forth, Scotland (Colour transparency)
A view forward from the bridge of the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) in the Firth of Forth, Scotland (Colour transparency)
A port quarter view, taken from wide off the stern of the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) dredging in the Firth of Forth, Scotland (Colour transparency)
A close up view of the aft end of the suction pipe taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) in the Firth of Forth, Scotland (Colour transparency)
A view of the stern motor vessel fishing Taurus Six and an unidentified tanker taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) in the Firth of Forth, Scotland (Colour transparency)
Loose pack ice in the Beaufort Sea taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) at sea (Colour transparency)
The suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) approaching the Lower Gatun lock at the Panama Canal (Colour transparency)
Approaching the Culebra Cut (formerly the Galliard Cut) taken from the bridge of the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) (Colour transparency)
An obscured view of three men on a motor dinghy taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) in the Firth of Forth, Scotland (Colour transparency)
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