Quotes from
Machaca:
(1)
"The photo of the forward EE bay venturi vent port taped up with plastic is confusing."
Yes, it was. Thanks for the new pic, which I had searched for in vain! (The "smudge" from the port shows the airflow direction nicely.)
(2) "
The battery is not adjacent to the port, and no damage to the hull occurred."
Depends what you mean by "adjacent"? The forward bay seems to be fairly small, judging from this
location diagram, and the BAT is at the L/H end, close to the fuselage skin. But the diagram makes it hard to see if the bay is forward or aft of Cabin Door 1L.
The original photo seems to show the plastic-covered port as being just below the first "7" 0f the "787" painted on the L/H side of the fuselage of this particular a/c (ANA seem to have several liveries for their B787s). Here's a
link to a photo of an a/c in the same colour scheme. It suggests that the port is therefore just aft of Door 1L (and, of course, well below it). Here's the link to the article with the close-up
photo of the port.
So, is the port aft of the bay, or adjacent to it?