We worked along the steel wall passing large circular holes where the heavy brass portholes had once been. |
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On the walls were mirrors which reflected what little natural light came through the portholes around the room. |
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From those obscured depths, the bubbled exhalations from unseen divers stream up from portholes, heading past us for the sun. |
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Plenty of light enters through empty portholes on both sides of the engine room and ventilator hatches in the roof. |
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The bow is equally imposing, with two extremely large anchors still in their hawsers and a great deal of machinery and portholes to see. |
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On the far wall, between two circular portholes, was a red and gold fireplace, flanked by two armchairs. |
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As he stood there, up to his knees in sawdust, and surrounded by portholes and brass ship fittings, we asked about good wreck dives in the area. |
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Crossing the deck and looking over the side, you'll see a line of portholes just below deck level. |
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Several small structures up top were also tiled and without windows or portholes. |
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But the biggest clue was that this ship had square portholes in one section, instead of round. |
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The style is of a luxury cruiser, with round windows looking like portholes and the gleaming white exterior the hull of a ship. |
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The cabin has two portholes with windows made of six-inch thick plexi-glass. |
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Everything feels dinky and a certain pre-war atmosphere prevails as we huddle inside, watching the rain lash at the portholes. |
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As the vessel dives to the bottom of the ocean, look through the periscope and portholes to see the surrounding seascapes. |
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As we dropped off the tip of the bow to seabed level and swam along the wreck, we could see numerous portholes, all with heavy-duty deadlights securely fixed shut. |
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From the early 1770s emigration brokers also began to respond to concerns about ventilation by including more and larger portholes in the designs of their newer vessels. |
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Only the front half of the restaurant jutted out like the bow of a ship, the rest was of a normal shape, though planked with wood and having portholes instead of windows. |
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There were ventilators but the portholes had to remain closed. |
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Behind the forward capstan, the wreck becomes an unidentifiable mess but it can be seen that the superstructure had rounded windows rather than portholes. |
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A design by an award-winning architect from the early 1950s, it was originally on concrete stilts and featured glass-brick features and portholes typical of the style. |
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I got a fitful two hours of sleep, tried to read and write, and at the first breath of light outside the portholes, went up on deck to watch the sun rise. |
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Further aft, the deck reforms and you can see the engine room, with companionways on either side, and doors and spaces where brass portholes used to be. |
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The remains of seven infants within intramural burial pits showed disturbances due to intrusive portholes that caused varying degrees of disarticulation and loss of elements. |
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Many portholes had long been taken by souvenir-hunters, although several rows securely fixed indicated that the wreck was not quite ready to give everything away. |
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Like the stern accommodation, the ceilings have gone but the walls are partially intact, with circular openings left where portholes have been removed. |
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With empty lifeboat davits, rows of portholes, and a great deal of superstructure to photograph, our short decompression dive didn't really do this wreck justice. |
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The angry water rushed by outside the portholes, surging up on deck. |
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