Bahamas Marine Structure

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Bahamas Marine Structure: Burmah Oil. Correspondence, Rowe's paper on geotechnical science application difficulties including offshore gravity platforms examples (and Venice examples, see also press cutting below), relating to legal arbitration "Claim by Gem-Hersent [company] for additional costs when piling in coral for a marine structure in the Bahamas built on behalf of... Burmah Oil."

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Includes press cutting from The Times, 5 November 1976, relating to publication of new book concerning the plight of Venice and seemingly deliberate attempts at thwarting measures to save Venice from sinking into the sea - see PWR/4/3/28.