#GalwayPort - Courtesy of Galway Tourism's Twitter feed, here's an incredible overhead time-lapse video of the oil tanker Galway Fisher arriving in port at Galway Harbour recently.
Compressing the ship's meticulous series of manoeuvres down to under a minute – compare with the real-time video here – the video shows the comsummate skills of her captain and crew in negotiating what's undoubtedly a tight squeeze for the 91-metre long, 16-metre wide tanker.
MacDara Conroy is a contributor covering all things on the water, from boating and wildlife to science and business
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