A joint collection of photos covering 1979 – 1986, contributed by Bernie Care, Richard Price, Mike Sarginson, Steve Wormald and John Yates
The Early Days in Trafford House (1979)
Stabekk Office,
Oslo, Norway (1979)
Houston Office (1981)
Anchorage Office
Parties & R&R
Diego Garcia Office
Various Survey Vessels
Instrument Rooms & Workshops
On Deck
1979 – MV ‘Bommeloy’ Norway – Geoteam
1979 – Norway – Trondheim
Sorvaer – Hammerfest – Geoteam
1979 – Buckie
Fraserburgh, Scotland
1980 – North Sea, Aberdeen
Ninian Central
1980 – Spain – Tarragona, Sitges
1980 – MV ‘Jones Tide” – Baird-Comap, Hodeida, Red Sea Yemen – Jebel Alli Survey Station & Airlift
1980 – Spain, Cadiz
Ceuta, North Africa
1980 – Diego Garcia
US Navy Pre-Dredge Survey (The first commercial digital sidescan sonar chart of Diego Garcia lagoon)
1980 – Bristol Channel Research Vessel
1980 – MV ‘Southern Service’
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
1980 – Spain, Coring Program
1980 – MV ‘ Suffolk Conquest’
Total, Aberdeen – Alwyn Field
(First Commercial Use of SMS)
1982 – MV ‘Midnight Alaskan’
Gulf of Mexico
1982 – MV ‘Midnight Alaskan’ Port of Spain, Trinidad
1982 – Mina Qaboos, Oman
1983 – MV ‘State Cougar’ Slope Coring Program
Gulf Of Mexico, USA
1982 – MV ‘PenSurveyor‘
Trials & Tribulations
1983 – MV ‘Pensurveyor’
Wick, Scotland
1983 – MV ‘PenSurveyor’
Goole, UK
1984 – Refitting MV ‘Lady Brigid’
for Bering Sea, Alaska
1983 – Land Geophysics
Gold Tailings Surveys, Nevada
1984 – MV ‘Lady Brigid’
St. George Basin, Alaska Shell/Exxon St. Matthew Island Nav. Beacon
1983 – MV ‘Dejudah’
Pointe Noire, Congo
1984 – MV ‘Point Au Fer’
Gulf of Mexico, USA
1984 – MV ‘Terry Bordelon’
Gulf of Mexico, USA
1984 – MV ‘Pine River’
Gulf of Mexico, USA
1984 – MV ‘Arctic Rose’
Beaufort Sea, Alaska
1985 – MV ‘State Wave’
Nigeria
1984 – MV ‘Venturer’
Offshore Kenya
1980’s era – MV ‘Red Seal’ – Who, What, Where?
Mystery to be solved – it’s all on a State Boat, but where, when?
