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Appendix H: Photographic record of the experiment.
Cover
Frontispiece
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RMAS Salmaster from Forth Road Bridge (Fergus I. McTaggart)
Flags flown by RMAS Salmaster.
British Geological Survey equipment container being loaded
onto RMAS Salmaster
Foredeck of RMAS Salmaster at sea.
Shot point mooring buoys on foredeck of RMAS Salmaster.
Orange shot point buoy and crate containing MSF radio time
receiver for signal timing on analogue tape data recorders.
Recording Laboratory for hydrophone strings and the BGS
Sea Bottom Package in portacabin between decks on RMAS
Salmaster.
Checking and testing laboratory for Pull-Up Sea-bottom
Seismometers (PUSSes) on RMAS Salmaster
Syledis computer for high accuracy navigation and
positioning at sea.
Oubit monitor of Syledis navigational system mounted on the
Bridge of RMAS Salmaster.
Oubit monitor screen in action. Note the target position at
the centre of the bulls-eye, the current position of RMAS
Salmaster some 1200m north and the line representing a
section of the experiment great circle from the shot point
to Tentsmuir.
PUSS, pressure sealed tube end.
PUSS, tube end removed.
PUSS instrumentation wired up at sea for testing and setting
of recording time windows prior to deployment.
Final preparations of PUSS on deck immediately prior to
deployment. Note quarter tonne anchor weights in background.
PUSS tube on deck fully prepared for deployment. Note
hydrophone strapped to the tube and the dumb-bell weights at
both ends of the tube.
PUSS being lowered into the sea at deployment.
Toroidal buoy used to mark the position of PUSS deployment
for eventual retrieval. Note the radar reflector and
flashing lamp installed on the superstructure.
PUSS toroidal buoy at deployment.
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