Standby Vessels - Masters Pocket Book Series Media:eBook New York Upper Bay

New York Upper Bay

Point Breeze Harbor is a standard navigation chart used by commercial and recreational mariners alike

Fair Isle to Wick is a standard nautical chart

Both sides of this navigation chart have brightly colored areas of live bottom grounds

Standby Vessels - Masters Pocket Book Series Media:eBook New York Upper BayOverview This book examines the operations of standby vessels covering the older, newer and converted types. When the first oil platforms were installed in the North Sea, a system of standby vessels was introduced. Initially these consisted of fishing boats hired casually to standby in the area of the platform to perform some kind of assistance in case of emergency. In 1988 came the Piper Alpha disaster which had a traumatic effect on the whole oil