Notes

The dark blue hull towered above them, a broad white line running horizontally along the hull separating the dark blue and the dull red hue of the below-the-waterline hull. Perched on, and overhanging, the bow, a circular structure was ringed with vertical safety netting and extended aft as far as the white-painted bridge superstructure. Just before a large two-deck-high rectangular opening which housed a bright orange TEMPSC, the vessel’s name was painted in three-foot lettering: CALICO QUEST. Above the blue hull, the white-painted superstructure extended to amidships leaving the aft deck clear apart from a giant white-painted crane and a smaller version of the giant crane. Towering eight decks above, the bridge with its towering windows afforded an amazing view ahead, aft, and on either beam. Just aft of the TEMPSC, a two-deck-high opening housed a retractable steel gangway which extended steeply down to the dock. Immediately aft, past six portholes on two decks, a four-deck-high door was sealed shut. Next, a large two-deck-high square opening housed a rapid-response RIB.

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