Posted on 19 November, 201319 November, 2013 by John DunfordImages from our ‘meeting’ with the Noble Bob Douglas SV Baltazar and the Noble Bob Douglas drilling ship on the site where oil giant Anadarko intends to start exploratory drilling for deep sea oil. The drill site is over 100 nautical miles off Raglan, on the west coast of New Zealand, and in waters around a kilometre and a half deep. Three yachts and the Noble Bob Douglas drilling ship on the site where oil giant Anadarko intends to start exploratory drilling for deep sea oil. The drill site is over 100 nautical miles off Raglan, on the west coast of New Zealand, and in waters around a kilometre and a half deep. SV Vega confronts the Noble Bob Douglas drilling ship on the site where oil giant Anadarko intends to start exploratory drilling for deep sea oil. The drill site is over 100 nautical miles off Raglan, on the west coast of New Zealand, and in waters around a kilometer and a half deep. SV Vega confronts the Noble Bob Douglas drilling ship on the site where oil giant Anadarko intends to start exploratory drilling for deep sea oil. The drill site is over 100 nautical miles off Raglan, on the west coast of New Zealand, and in waters around a kilometre and a half deep. Yachts in foreground are SV Tiama (front), SV Ratbag and SV Friendship. SV Vega confronts the Noble Bob Douglas drilling ship on the site where oil giant Anadarko intends to start exploratory drilling for deep sea oil. The drill site is over 100 nautical miles off Raglan, on the west coast of New Zealand, and in waters around a kilometre and a half deep.