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November 2005 contents Marine Technology Reporter • Volume 48 • Number 3

Vessels 18 Henry B. Bigelow Nears Completion Mississippi-based VT Halter Marine, significantly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, is still on schedule to deliver FRV Henry B. Bigelow next year. — by Larry Pearson

Hurricane(s) Clean-Up 22 Gulf of Mexico Subsea Clean Up Begins A series of powerful hurricanes swept through the Gulf of Mexico leaving unprecedent- ed distruction on land and underwater. Maggie L. Merrill documents efforts to assess and repair subsea damage.

Hurricane(s) Clean-Up 30 Where to Begin? Roving reporter Don Sutherland spent three weeks in the Gulf of Mexico post- Hurricane Katrina, and salvage companies doing what they do best: trying mightily to improvise and bring order to a chaotic situation.

Underwater Security 34 Keeping Ships Safe in Port The Harbor Fence and Underwater Sentry is being deployed as an effective means to detect underwater threats before they are able to strike.

Military 38 Lessons Learned with Hugin AUV The Hugin AUV has been run through its paces with the Royal Norwegian Navy Mine Warfare Flotilla, and provided a number of insights to the manufacturer.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles 42 Hafmynd: Putting the Pieces Together The Gavia Northern Diver AUV (pictured in the background) is an innovative, modular AUV that can be used in commercial, scientific and military operations. The product and its maker are profiled, starting on page 42. — by Kate Elizabeth Queram

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The harbor fence and the underwater sentry system protecting a ship in port. (See story on page 34)

the Authors

Maggie Linskey Merrill is the founding editor and publisher of Marine Technology Reporter. She has 20 years experience communicating marine science, technology, environmental and www.seadiscovery.com engineering news and information. She has held positions at the NEW YORK 118 E. 25th St., New York, NY 10010 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts Institute Tel: (212) 477-6700; Fax: (212) 254-6271

of Technology, HA Perry Foundation and Sea Data Corporation. FLORIDA 215 NW 3rd St., Boynton Beach, FL 33435 In 1993 she founded MTR and the Marine and Oceanographic Tel: (561) 732-1659; Fax: (561) 732-6984 Technology Network (MOTN). (Story on page 22) PUBLISHER John C. O'Malley • [email protected] Larry Pearson is a freelance writer from Metairie, La. Pearson Associate Publisher & Editor is currently a contributor to MTR sister-publication, Marine Gregory R. Trauthwein • [email protected] News, and has edited his own publication, Passenger Vessel Editorial Director Maggie Merrill News, and was managing editor of WorkBoat. This month in Editorial Intern MTR he writes on the new FRV Henry B. Bigelow. Kate Elizabeth Queram • [email protected] (Story on page 18) Production Manager John Guzman • [email protected]

Asst. Production Manager Irina Tabakina • [email protected]

Manager, Information Services Writer-photographer Don Sutherland has operated as an Tina Veselov • [email protected] Manager, Accounting Services "embedded photojournalist" on location for over 30 years. He's Esther Rothenberger • [email protected]

sometimes described as "the inventor of digital photography." Manager, Public Relations Evidence is at www.don-sutherland.com. Mark O’Malley • [email protected] Marketing Coordinator (Story on page 30) Jocelyn Pearring • [email protected]

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Senior Vice President, Sales 4 Editorial Brett W. Keil • [email protected] 4 Editorial Index Tel: (561) 732-1185; Fax: (561) 732-8414 Senior Vice President, Sales 6 USV Industry Day held in Washington Rob Howard • [email protected] 8 LOCO for Microscopic Sea Life Tel: (561) 732-4368; Fax: (561) 732-6984 Vice President of Sales 13 Undersea “Looters” go High Tech Lucia M. Annunziata • [email protected] 49 People & Company News CHARLES E. KEIL, Vice President, 54 Products International Operations 215 NW Third Street, Boynton Beach, FL 33435 60 MTR Marketplace: JOBS Tel: +561-732-0312; Fax: +561-732-8063 64 Advertiser’s Index 24-hr Tel/Fax: +561-998-0313; Mobile Tel: +561-716-0338 e-mail: [email protected]

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When “Seafloor Engineering” was tapped as the feature topic of editorial this edition, little did we know that a pair of powerful hurricanes would serve to make the coverage all too timely. At press time, nearly two and a half months after the first and worst hurricane — Katrina — blew ashore and swamped the coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, government and industry were still working overtime to produce a full assessment of subsea damage and determine a timeline for recovery. While realistic numbers are still difficult to conjure, it is safe to state that undersea and salvage work in the area will be at full capacity for many months. Maggie Merrill doggedly pursued endless leads to deliver an overview of the damage, with insights on specific technologies employed to get the job done. Freelance writer Don Sutherland, a regular in the pages of MTR sister-publication MarineNews, was down south for more than three weeks, and we deliver his unique perspective starting on page 30.

Greg Trauthwein Associate Publisher & Editor • [email protected]

Editorial Index Companies with editorial mention in this edition

Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences (AUAS) 50 Icelandic Coast Guard 44 SAIC 24, 34, 37 Aker Kvaerner Subsea 9, 51, 52 Indian Navy 12 Scripps Institution of Oceanography 49, 50, 53 Aker Marine Contractors 14, 15 Inmarsat 40 SEA, Ltd. 29 American Salvage Association (ASA) 31, 32 Innovatum International 54 SeaBotix Inc. 54 Applanix 27, 48 IEEE 50 Seaeye 56 Applied Geomechanics Inc. (AGI) 57 InterOcean 57, 58 SHOALS 58 BAE Systems 8 J. Ray McDermott, S.A. 16 Simrad 55 BASF 9 JDR Cable 52 Sonavision Limited 55 Your Marine Technology Benthos, Inc. 25 Kongsberg Maritime 10, 38, 40, 41 Sonsub 51 Bluefin Robotics 12 Lincoln Laboratory 17 SRI International 11 Bollinger 64 LinkQuest Ltd. 44 Subsea 7 12, 52 One-Stop-Shop BP 51, 56 Lithion Inc. 55 Sunwest Technologies, Inc. 55 C&C Technologies 15, 24 Lockheed Martin 48, 52 Sutron 59 Canadian National Research Council (NRC) 44 Manchester University 50 T&T Marine 30, 31, 32, 64 Caterpillar 20 Marin Mätteknik AB 13 Technip 12 Chelsea Technologies Group (CTG) 56 Marine Technology Society (MTS) 50 Thalassa 55 Day's Inn 31 Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) 25 Association of Marine Scientific Industries (AMSI) 11 DeepSea Power & Lights 55 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute 8 CEFAS 11 DEFRA 11 National Geographic Society 49 The College of Exploration 7 Diamond Offshore 25 NOAA 11, 16, 18, 19 Intl. Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES) 20 Donjon Marine 32, 64 National Science Foundation 10 The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) 57 Douglas Westwood Ltd. 13 NATO Undersea Research Center 39 The National Ocean Service 25 E.on 9 Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAVAIR) 8 Univ. of NH Center for Coastal Ocean Mapping 7 ECA 56 Naval Electronics Lab (NEL) 49 Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation 16 Edgetech 29, 40 Naval Undersea Warfare Center 55 Transocean 25 Elliot Bay Design Group (EBDG) 11 Nexans 54 Transoceanic Cable Ship Company, Inc. (TCSC) 51 www.seadiscovery.com English Heritage 7 Noble 25 TRIAXYS 57 European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling 16 Noise Control Engineering (NCE) 20 Triton 48, 53 FEMA 32 Ocean Technology Foundation (OTF) 7 TSS (International) Ltd. 52 Finnish Navy 40 Oceaneering 24 Tyco Telecommunications 51 Log on everyday and Flotation Technologies 59 Office of Coast Survey 32 USACE 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 53 French Marine Institute (IFREMER) 55 Office of Naval Research (ONR) 8 U.S. Department of Interior 29 FrogEye 48 Oregon State University 8 U.S. National Academy of Sciences 21 receive: Fugro GEOS 14, 15, 24 Perry Slingsby Systems (PSS) 52, 53 U.S. National Science Foundation 53 Fugro Pelagos, Inc. 48, 53 Rapp Hydema 19 U.S. Naval Historical Center 7 Gazprom 9 ROVer's Eye 47 Underwater Society of America 50 Geoconsult AS 53 Royal Navy 9 United States Geological Survey (USGS) 28, 29 • Daily News Glomar 25 Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN) 38, 41 Utrok Atoll Local Government (UALGOV) 11 Hafmynd (Gavia) 42, 43, 44, 45, 58 Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab 50 VideoRay 15 Harvard University 21 Saft 59 VT Halter Marine 18, 19, 20 • Exclusive Product & Hydroid, Inc. 8 Schilling Robotics 51, 56 WHOI 8, 10, 21, 28, 50 Technology Reports • New Job Listings Marine Technology Reporter is New York, NY 10010-2915. All rights reserved. No part of this publication published monthly except for Postmaster send notification may be reproduced or transmitted in any form February, August, and (Form 3579) regarding or by any means mechanical, photocopying, www.seadiscovery.com December by New Wave Media, undeliverable magazines to recording or otherwise without the prior writ- Or, join thousands of Vol. 48 No. 3 118 E. 25th St., New York, NY Marine Technology Reporter, ten permission of the publishers. BPA Worldwide Business 10010-2915. Periodicals 118 East 25th Street, New your colleagues and Audit Membership Applied Postage Pending at New York, York, NY 10010. for September 2005. NY and additional mailing sign up for our weekly offices. Publishers are not responsible NEWS & JOB Updates for the safekeeping or return of 118 East 25th Street, POSTMASTER: Send address editorial material. ©2005 New New York, NY 10010 via E-mail. tel: (212) 477-6700; changes to MARINE TECHNOLO- Wave Media. fax: (212) 254-6271 GY REPORTER, 118 E. 25th St., It’s Fast ... and FREE! Subscription: To subscribe please visit www.seadiscovery.com/mt/mtMagazine.asp 4 MTR November 2005 MTR#3 (1-16).qxd 11/15/2005 9:31 AM Page 7

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USV Industry Day Held in Washington news By Edward Lundquist may be awarded by June 2006 for delivery The U.S. Navy's Unmanned Surface by August 2007." Vehicle Industry Day, held at the The Navy wants industry to focus on the Washington Navy Yard October 18-20, platform and core control sensors and sys- called for industry ideas and solutions to tems. The communication radio sets and support the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) host control stations will be government mission packages for the Littoral Combat furnished equipment (GFE). Ship. The conference was hosted by the The LCS and ASW Mission System Program Executive Office for Littoral and Integration requirements define the trade Mine Warfare. The service is requesting space. The Navy and industry will work assistance from industry for research and together to identify requirements and best development (R&D) of Unmanned Surface achieve the ASW mission capabilities, meet- Vehicle (USV) for ASW applications. ing or exceeding the requirements wherever "The Navy's goal is to procure up to four possible. "We will provide industry trade (prototype) USVs in the near term and as space to meet the top level requirements," many as 52 USVs for ASW Mission Michaud said. "We're seeking a low risk Packages in the far term," said Capt. Walt solution." Wright, Program manager for the LCS The top level requirements and Request Mission Modules. "We're seeking a single for Proposals ("Technology developments USV design to support all ASW mission leading to demonstrations of improved systems," Wright said. "This will support a capabilities in unmanned ground, sea sur- common USV effort for all LCS Mission face, underwater, and air robotic systems" - Packages. Acquiring a USV for the LCS Announcement number N66001-04-X- ASW Mission Package is a top-level require- 6001) are available online: ment, according to Ken Michaud, assistant https://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil/com- program manager for the ASW mission mand/02/acq/navhome.nsf/homepage?read- Rising Cost for a package. Industry has some flexibility, form Sinking Ship Michaud said. "Our objective is to articu- "Innovative design in the trade space is The cost of a project late the governments needs and to establish required to balance USV requirements and to scuttle the aircraft carrier Oriskany 22.5 the hard and soft boundaries in the trade LCS programmatic objectives within the miles southeast of space that industry can balance to meet the available timeframe," said Chris. Pensacola Pass as the Navy's near term needs in support of the Hillenbrand, Unmanned Surface Vehicle world's largest artifi- ASW Mission Package." Customer Advocate, USW Weapons and cial reef project has Vehicles Product Area. escalated from $2.8 The USV will be used for sensor mission million to $12.73 mil- systems. The three ASW systems currently According to program office officials, the lion in just 12 months, being considered for application from USVs LCS "sea frame" will be a major factor for according to a report are the Unmanned Dipping Sonar (UDS); mission module design. The mission pack- from the Pensacola ages must fit within the seaframe volume News Journal. The the Umanned Towed Array System (UTAS); new reef is intended and the Multi-Static Off-Board Source allocation. The davits must be able to lift as a major draw for (MS-OBS). "Up to four prototype USVs the vehicles, and the systems must mate up fishing and diving. A will be procured under this contract," to the standard interfaces. The communica- string of red-tape to Michaud said. "The program plans to tion links must utilize the VRC-99 radio to sink the vessel, as talk to the operator. "We want to open up well as the need to award a contract in January 2006 for two tow it to Texas to ride ASW USV prototypes with an option for the USV's design to the greatest extent pos- out the hurricane sea- two additional units. The first two units sible while still being bound by the LCS sea son, were cited as will be required by March 2007. The frame and ASW mission system's require- reasons for the cost ments," Hillenbrand said. escalation. option for two additional prototype units

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OTF to Search for Bonhomme Richard news One of the most memorable battles of New Hampshire Center for Coastal Ocean the American Revolution took place off the Mapping/ Joint Hydrographic Center, the coast of England on September 23, 1779 College of Exploration, and English between the British ship Serapis and the Heritage, which advises the British govern- Bonhomme Richard, captained by ment on the historic environment. American naval hero John Paul Jones. One of the search team members, Peter Ultimately, he emerged victorious and took Reaveley, is considered an expert on the control of Serapis, and 36 hours later battle between Bonhomme Richard and watched his own ship sink into the North H.M.S. Serapis. OTF has also created a Sea. The Ocean Technology Foundation computer model of the ship, which will (OTF) is spearheading an expedition in the simulate how it may have drifted after the summer of 2006 to search for the remains battle. OTF and its partners will conduct of the Bonhomme Richard. "Finding surveys of the ocean floor using a magne- Jones's ship will vividly bring to life an tometer, which can detect large amounts of inspiring chapter in America's past using metal ballast underwater, and high-tech ocean technologies that are vital to sonar systems that can identify anomalies America's future," said Dr. Sylvia Earle, a on the ocean bottom. When found, the member of OTF's Board of Directors. wreck of the Bonhomme Richard will be Project collaborators include the U.S. one of the most important archeological Naval Historical Center, the University of discoveries in U.S. Naval history. %PZPVOFFEBDPTUFĊFDUJWFBOEJOOPWBUJWF 0$5,1(*(27(&+1,&$/6859(<"

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Loco for Microscopic Sea Life news Miniscule life forms such as phytoplank- ton, bacteria, and viruses sometimes con- verge into patches called "thin layers." The centimeter- to meter-thick layers have den- sities as great as 1,000 times that of the water around them and can have profound effects on the way light and sound move through the water. Little is known about them, and they are the latest oceanographic mystery being investigated by the Office of Naval Research. A five-year, $9 million project dubbed LOCO, for "Layered Organization in the Coastal Ocean," is bringing together researchers from several universities and research institutions to answer the most basic questions about thin layers. Among them: Why, where, when, and how do they form and dissipate? Does the layering differ between nearshore and offshore environments? What are the biological and optical Above: properties of the layers? Can we create mod- Dr. Mark Stacey of the University of els to predict their occurrence? California Berkeley (right), Chris Ostrander, One of the AUVs that will swim through and Brian McLaughlin of the University of the water and thin layers in Monterey is Hawaii (middle and left) deploy a bottom mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler REMUS, developed by Hydroid, Inc., with (ADCP) in Monterey Bay, Calif., during proj- support from ONR. LIDAR (similar to ect LOCO (Layered Organization in the Coastal Ocean), which is funded by the Office of Naval Research. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Margaret McManus of the Univ. of Hawaii.)

radar but based on light scattering), bioa- coustical instruments, and straight water sampling will also contribute to understanding thin layers. LOCO brings together researchers from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft RIght: Division Patuxent River, Md. (NAVAIR), University of California University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz divers Santa Cruz, University of Hawaii, Craig Mueller (right) University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Jared Figurski (left) participate in the University of Rhode Island, the Monterey LOCO (Layered Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Oregon Organization in the State University, Woods Hole Coastal Ocean) proj- Oceanographic Institution, and BAE ect, which is sponsored by the Office of Naval Systems. Research.

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$5B Pipeline Underway weighs 0.84 tons (850kg) and is used to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder detect mines, had become a major tourist news and Russian President Vladimir Putin attraction on the island. To commemorate announced a $5 billion underwater the event, a local distillery has produced pipeline that pumps natural gas from 12,000 bottles of Yellow Submarine whisky Siberia to Germany. The pipeline, nearly and presented a case to the captain of the 745 miles long, will stretch under the minesweeper. The unmanned submarine Baltic Sea from the Russian port of Wyborg was found by John Baker when he was fish- to Greifswald in northeastern Germany. ing for lobsters in May, floating about three Russian energy giant Gazprom will ink miles from the Mull of Oa. The vessel was the deal for the North European Gas kept on display in the garden of his broth- Pipeline with German companies BASF, er-in-law Harold Hastie, who helped him E.on and Wintershall. bring it to dry land.

Sub Returned to Royal Navy Subsea Contract Awarded A yellow submarine reeled in by island Aker Kvaerner Subsea won a $33.8 mil- fishermen more than five months ago has lion contract for two subsea pump stations been collected by the Royal Navy - along for use at the King field in the Gulf of with a specially-bottled case of whisky to Mexico. The installation will set a new mark the occasion. HMS Blythe arrived at world record by applying this technology Islay off the west coast of Scotland to in deep water and more than 29 km from retrieve its remotely-operated vehicle the platform. The pump station system will (ROV). The 10 ft. (3 m)-long craft, which be manufactured at Aker Kvaerner Subsea's facility in Tranby, Norway. Get More Marine Technology

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news SERPENT Image Competition

Kongsberg Maritime extends its support fieldwork/experimental set-up/vessels and of the SERPENT project by sponsoring, vehicles/equipment and underwater video alongside BP, a flagship underwater image footage. Judging criteria includes visual and video competition. The competition is impact, importance to science, the novelty, seeking entries in five categories with the the rarity of the subject, but most of all the aim of showcasing the best biological and way the images capture the essence of the technical images taken in the deep sea. deep ocean and how we explore it today. The SERPENT (Scientific and The competition results will be Environmental ROV Partnership using announced at the 11th International Deep- Existing Industrial Technology) project was Sea Biology Symposium, to be held at the New Insights on National Oceanography Centre, Ocean's Crust founded by Dr. Ian Hudson from the Scientists have pro- DeepSeas Group in the George Decon Southampton on July 9-14, 2006. Each cat- duced images of the Division of the National Oceanography egory will have three cash prizes: 1st = $870 oceanic crust and Center, Southampton (NOCS) and oil and (£500), 2nd =$522 (£300) and 3rd = $348 found that its upper gas industry partners. The project unites (£200). and lower layers are likely formed from dif- research establishments and oil and technol- ferent magma pools. ogy companies in a bid to increase our Geophysicists Robert knowledge of the sea, by utilizing the spare Detrick and Juan- time of ROVs (Remotely Operated Pablo Canales of Sea SERPENTS Vehicles). Woods Hole The Scientific and Environmental ROV Oceanographic "With so little known about the deep Institution (WHOI) and ocean and so many ROVs, rigs and vessels Partnership using Existing Industrial colleagues used engaged in oil and gas work worldwide the Technology - or SERPENT - is a project reflected seismic potential for getting data back to science where science is working with the oil (sound) waves to from industry is huge," said Dr. Ian industry to capture rare subsea species on image the structure of film. Animals in the deep oceans are being the lower crust across Hudson. "The competition will find the the flanks of the Juan best of images to show the world the won- filmed by robotic cameras and vehicles as de Fuca Ridge, ana- ders of the deep." oil companies go about the business of lyzing about 1,500 km The image competition is open to indus- seeking new oil reserves or performing (935 miles) of data off maintenance. The teaming is allowing sci- the coast of try, scientists, support staff and professional Washington, Oregon photographers. The five categories consist entists to vastly expand their capability to and northern of: Underwater Images (>200 m depth), discover new species and document pat- California. The study Technical Underwater Images (>200 m terns. For more information, visit was funded by grants http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/GDD/ser- from the National depth), Microscopic/specimen images of pent Science Foundation. deep-sea species or features,

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Prospective R/V McArthur Transfer news Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) com- the capital costs to meet current regulatory pleted an analysis of repair, reconfigura- requirements and to provide adequate offi- tion, operation, and maintenance costs for cer and crew support during the transfer. the inactive NOAA ship McArthur in support of a feasibility study prepared by SRI International of Menlo Park, Calif. Based on this study, the government is evaluating the scope and cost of a proposed transfer of the McArthur, a 175 ft. (53.3 m) survey vessel, to the Utrok Atoll Local Government (UALGOV) within the Republic of the Marshall Islands. As part of the transfer, the government wants to be sure the vessel will meet its intended use and whether other opportunities exist that would make it economically viable, since the transportation mission is not expected to provide long-term economic support for its operation and maintenance. Under a grant from the government, SRI was selected by the UALGOV to conduct a feasibility study of the proposed transfer. Working with SRI, EBDG inspected the McArthur and developed an economic forecast of likely operation and maintenance costs. EBDG also calculated

AMSI Raises Competition assurances that in the case of DEFRA and CEFAS, they operate their commercial Issues with DEFRA, CEFAS activities according to Treasury rules utiliz- The Association of Marine Scientific ing a full economic costing model. Further, Industries (AMSI) has been in discussion it was explained that CEFAS continued to with DEFRA (Department for seek 'commercialization' of its technology Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and through the private sector to exploit their the leaders of CEFAS (The Centre for intellectual property and expertise. To this Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture end, it was agreed that CEFAS and other Science) to raise issues of competition with- DEFRA agencies would use AMSI as a com- in the marine science and technology sector. munication channel to make industry more In a recent meeting, AMSI representatives aware of their needs with a view to seeking met with senior scientists and executives stronger relationships with the private sector. from Defra and CEFAS to raise concerns AMSI Chairman, Paul Ridout, said “I am from some of its members about competi- pleased to have been able to raise these issues tion in the market place. In particular at such a high level within Defra. Our AMSI sought clarification that where gov- member companies possess many leading ernment funded departments and agencies technologies much sought after in the glob- were competing for commercial contracts, al market place and their success is shared by they did so on a fair basis. Officials gave all in the UK.”

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news Safeguard Concludes SALVEX

USS Safeguard (ARS 50) completed the members toured Indian training facilities, first Salvage Exercise (SALVEX) with the completed familiarization dives on Indian Navy on September 24, after con- Safeguard's dive system with Indian divers, ducting 12 days of combined dive exercises conducted in-harbor salvage exercises and off of India's western coast city of Cochin salvaged the wreckage of an Indian navy air- and its surrounding waters. craft. U.S. Navy divers worked closely with Safeguard (ARS 50) is a forward deployed their Indian counterparts at SALVEX, a rescue and salvage ship operating out of combined classroom and in-port training Sasebo, Japan, and is part of Task Force 76, with at-sea dives and salvage exercises. In the Navy's only forward-deployed amphibi- the course of two weeks, Safeguard crew ous force.

Joint Subsea Ops in Asia Bluefin Wins BPAUV Contract Technip and Subsea 7 signed a MOU Bluefin Robotics won a $6.6m cost-plus- whereby their affiliates Technip Oceania award-fee/cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for and Subsea 7 Singapore will form a jointly Battlespace Preparation Autonomous operated company for subsea offshore activ- Undersea Vehicle (BPAUV) design and ities in the Asia Pacific region (excluding development. The BPAUV is a system capa- India and Middle-East). Technip and ble of bottom-mapping and gathering other Subsea 7 will bid for and carry out all oceanographic data to support the Littoral EPCIM (engineering, procurement, con- Combat Ship Mine Warfare Mission struction, installation, commissioning Module. The BPAUV is intended as an and/or maintenance) contracts for the sub- autonomous unmanned system capable of sea production and transportation of oil meeting clandestine intelligence, surveil- and gas within the Asia Pacific region, lance, reconnaissance, and survey require- including the supply of flexible pipe via the ments. Work will be performed in Technip/Subsea 7 joint venture. Cambridge, Mass.

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High Tech Aids Undersea “Looters” news Greece is embarked in a battle to thwart the Greek coast, which has the longest illegal discovery and recovery of an esti- coastline in Europe, date back to the mated 12,000 ancient shipwrecks and the Golden Age of the fifth century BC. A potential archeological treasures they local police source tasked with finding house in the Aegean and Mediterranean smugglers before they exit the country Seas. According to a report on with the valuable goods said that some www.boston.com, smugglers are increas- looters are coming to Greece and posing as ingly emboldened to find these potential wealthy tourists on yachts. In turn, the underseas riches, aided in large part by the Greek government has been embarked on plethora of advanced technologies that a plan to discover and protect ancient makes the task of finding such treasures wrecks, which has resulted in 30 finds in easier. Many of the submerged gems off the last five years.

New Ship Enhances Survey and Research Capacity

Marin Mätteknik AB fleet's latest ship toral surveying vessels do today. Our sur- investment has been completed. M/V vey vessel M/V Triad is with her current Franklin came into ownership and will configuration exceptionally good within now be upgraded to a Swedish flagged top- the depth interval of 5 - 500 m but, with modern, ocean survey and research vessel. the lesser size, has constraints to what is The vessel was in Göteborg for upgrading feasible due to weather, sea and endurance work. when sea borne. M/V Franklin is therefore "It is indeed reassuring to finally close a powerful and expansive addition to us this business deal and it is yet another step and with her, the oceans are open to Sat Tech Helps Track in our expansive strategy. We will target worldwide survey and research assign- Sharks larger shares of the world survey market ments," said Svante Johansson, CEO, Electronic tags broad- casting from the dor- than today and M/V Franklin is the per- Shipriders AB. sal fins of salmon fect platform for launching high-resolu- sharks reveal that tion surveys in bathymetry, geophysics and these top predators environmental investigations in both our migrate from the gla- cial waters of Alaska Scandinavian home waters and abroad on to the warm seas off the seven seas" said Ola Oskarsson, CEO, Hawaii, according to a Marin Mätteknik AB. new study in the jour- The ocean survey world market in 2004 Main Particulars nal Science. The Type Oceanographical and Hydrographical Research Vessel salmon shark's ability was valued by Douglas Westwood Ltd. to IMO No...... 8301797 to survive such a $2.5 billion, a growth of $1.5 billion since Propulsion ...... Wärtsilä 12V22MD diesel engine broad range of ther- Propeller ...... Lips BV CPP 2000. According to the company, the Date of commission ...... March 1985 mal conditions is trend continues in the near term, with a Length, o.a...... 55.6 m attributed to high lev- Length, b.p...... 48.6 m projected value of $2.8 billion in 2008. els of specialized pro- Breadth (Molded) ...... teins that keep its Shipriders AB manages the Marin 11.8 m Draft ...... 3.8 m heart muscle cells Mätteknik AB ships. GRT ...... 1,179 beating at very low "M/V Franklin gives us other possibili- Net registered tons ...... 353 temperatures, say the Displacement ...... 1218 mt ties to act ocean-wide than our smaller, lit- study's authors.

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news Sakhalin II Tow-Out Depends on Fugro Geos

Above: The tow out of concrete gravity base substructures (CGBS) for the Lunskoye A (LUN-A) and Piltun-Astokhskoye B (PA-B) platforms.

Right: The Seawatch mini buoy.

Fugro Global Environmental & Ocean Sciences (Fugro GEOS) played a role — providing real time information on weather, waves, current profile and water level — during the tow-out, positioning and installation of two concrete gravity base substructures (CGBS) for the Lunskoye A (LUN-A) and Piltun-Astokhskoye B (PA-B) platforms for the Sakhalin II Phase 2 Project for Aker Marine Contractors. This is thought to be the biggest single integrated oil and gas project ever undertaken. Fugro GEOS' Weather Forecasting Division supplied senior meteorologists to provide real time weather information. They were based onshore for the tow from the port to the holding area and then accompanied the tow based on a support vessel. The Measurement Division was involved in measuring waves, current profile and water level during the tow-out and installation of the two gravity based platforms. Both were contracted to Aker Marine Contractors. "The most critical part of the meteorological operation was moving from the port to the holding area,"

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said Hong Wang, Fugro GEOS weather CGBSs. forecaster. "The weather criteria was very "The current profile and sea elevation news low, less than 0.5 meter significant wave were measured by a bottom mounted height and less than 10 knots of wind. The ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current meteorologists' services were in heavy Profiler) and pressure sensor," said Jan- demand during this period as any unfore- Petter Mathisen, the Fugro OCEANOR seen changes in the weather would need to project manager responsible for this meas- be quickly and carefully managed. Once urement contract. "During the towing the structures were at the holding area the operation the data were transmitted by meteorologists joined a supply vessel to means of an electrical cable to a Seawatch provide ongoing weather coverage for the mini buoy, which measured wave direc- tow and final positioning on site. tional parameters. The Measurement Division had a five- All data were then transmitted to one of month contract with Aker Marine the towing vessels by the Inmarsat satellite Contractors to build up a complete under- system and presented by our StationGuard standing of waves, current profile and software. The measurements were carried water level that could be expected during out at two locations at water depths of 30 the tow-out and installation of the two and 50 m."

USCG Buys Underwater deep waters, the results of which will be Port Security Robots announced in two weeks. (Source: VideoRay won a Blanket Purchase IranMania) Agreement (BPA) by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) in conjunction with C-Surveyor II Works in GOM its recent General Services Administration C&C Technologies' second deepwater (GSA) Schedule award. The agreement AUV, C-Surveyor II, began field opera- expires in September, 2010, and involved a tions in the Gulf of Mexico. Over a peri- VideoRay Port Security configuration that od of three months, C&C system engi- has been deployed in nine Maritime Safety neers integrated proprietary hardware and and Security Team (MSST) locations over software into this next generation AUV the last two years. The task order includes and mobilized it on its mother ship the training and maintenance services with R/V Northern Resolution. The C- each system, and at the completion of this Surveyor II AUV is modeled after C & C's task order all MSST units will be equipped existing AUV, C-Surveyor I. with VideoRay systems. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 31

Drilling in Iran's Caspian Blocks Three-dimensional seismological operations are underway at Iranian blocks in Caspian Sea in preparation for spudding two wells. Deputy minister of oil for Caspian Sea oil and gas affairs told Petroenergy Information Network that a bid is underway for choosing a foreign contractor with experience in working at

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news NOAA to Convert Ship NOAA awarded a contract for $13.4 mil- Under the contract, Todd Pacific lion to Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation Shipyards will develop drawings and specifi- of Seattle, Wash., to convert a former U.S. cations incorporating NOAA's conversion Navy surveillance vessel to a NOAA items. Concurrently, the shipyard will over- research ship that will explore the world's haul all equipment on the ship that NOAA oceans. "This ship is the first in the NOAA has identified for repair or upgrade. Other fleet to be designated exclusively for ocean equipment will be opened up and inspected exploration, and the scientist-explorers who to determine if maintenance or repairs are sail on her will add their observations to the needed. Once all conversion item require- world's body of knowledge about this large- ments and costs are determined by the ship- ly unexplored frontier," said retired Navy yard, NOAA will choose which items to Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr., authorize under the parameters of the con- Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for tract. oceans and atmosphere and NOAA admin- The ship will be renamed Okeanos IODP Tahiti Sea Level istrator. "Once its conversion is complete, Explorer as a result of a nationwide NOAA Expedition the ship will be an important link in the ship-naming contest. The winning name Scientists have set sail for the Integrated Global Earth Observing System of was submitted by a team of students from Ocean Drilling Systems." Following the transfer of the Woodstock High School in Woodstock, Ill., Program (IODP) Tahiti USNS Capable to NOAA last September, and was one of nearly 400 entries received. Sea Level Expedition, the Navy also transferred $18 million of its Following conversion, the ship will sup- an expedition to inves- appropriated operating funds in FY 2005. port NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration tigate global sea level rise since the last gla- The funds will be applied to the conversion on ocean expeditions to unknown and cial maximum, contract and a separate purchase of highly poorly known areas of the ocean. It will be approximately 23,000 specialized onboard and shore side equip- equipped for ocean floor mapping, deploy- years ago. For six ment to connect expeditions at sea in real ment of remotely operated vehicles, scientif- weeks aboard the DP Hunter off the coast of time to teams of scientists, and to teachers ic work in onboard laboratories, and real- Tahiti, scientists will and students ashore via satellite and high- time transmission of images and data col- take samples of fossil speed Internet pathways. lected during ocean expeditions. corals from the ocean seafloor to analyze the environmental records. Scientists expect the reefs to J. Ray McDermott Wins Offshore LNG Contract yield records on J. Ray McDermott, S.A. won a contract with Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company changes in sea sur- Limited to provide engineering, procurement, construction and installation services for face temperature and new facilities in Qatar's North Field, as part of the Phase 2 Offshore Expansion Project. information on climat- Contracts of this type are typically valued at approximately $500 million. ic anomalies. The Phase 2 Expansion Project includes two LNG processing trains, and the develop- Since the climax of ment of offshore facilities to supply feed gas produced from the North Field to the the last ice age, glob- onshore LNG Train 6, and subsequently Train 7. J. Ray will perform the engineering, al sea level has risen procurement, construction and installation of two sets of topsides for the Train 6 remote by about 393 ft. (120 unmanned wellhead platforms WH6 and WH8, weighing approximately 2,200 short tons m). each; the jackets of which J. Ray recently engineered and installed under the Phase I ESO, the ECORD expansion project. The project also requires EPCI of two 38-in. wet-gas export trunk- (European Consortium lines and risers, approximately 62 miles long, from WH6 and WH8 to onshore receiving for Ocean Research facilities. Two separate combined power and fiber optic subsea communications cables Drilling) Science will be installed to connect the existing RasGas Alpha Complex to the two new platforms, Operator, is managing WH6 and WH8. The cable length to WH6 will be approximately 16 miles and approxi- the Tahiti Sea Level mately 21 miles to WH8. J. Ray's work on Train 7 facilities initially will be limited to Expedition on behalf hook-up and mechanical completion of additional wells on existing live gas production of IODP. platforms.

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Oceans 2006 Set for Boston news

The Oceans'06 MTS/IEEE North observatories; marine mammal classifica- America Conference and Exhibition will be tion; Arctic ocean science; optical properties held in Boston, Massachusetts September of water and non-acoustic imaging. 18-21, 2006. The birthplace of the Over 200 companies and organizations American Revolution, Massachusetts and are expected to showcase their equipment the surrounding New England region enjoy and their services. At the time of this notice, a centuries old relationship with the ocean. 68 companies had reserved space. The Nearby are the fishing and historic whaling exhibit hall will be chock full of attendees ports of Gloucester, Nantucket and New from all over the globe. There will be fre- Bedford as well as many world-class scien- quent coffee breaks and hosted receptions tific and technology centers. Crisp autumn throughout the duration of the show to weather and many tourist sites and activities ensure maximum traffic through the booth will make this conference an attraction for area. The organizing committee is casting a attendees and their families. wide net to attract attendees from the many The technical program at this Oceans government, academic and commercial Conference will emphasize what's new and operations located within a short distance of innovative in the field of marine science and Boston. "Both ocean technology and the technology. Scientists from all over the excitement of Boston's attractions have pro- world will present the results of their work gressed by leaps and bounds since Oceans on topics such as: underwater acoustics, was last hosted in this city," commented Dr. sonar signal processing, current measure- Stan Chamberlain, the General Chair ments, seafloor mapping, deep ocean explo- Oceans Boston 1981. ration and engineering, undersea vehicles, "I know for a fact that coming to Boston submarine cables and much more. will result in an extremely effective exchange Technical Committee chair, Vince Premus of information about new marine science of Lincoln Laboratory explained, "the and technology discoveries. It's a great place Boston technical committee anticipates a to meet new and old colleagues as well as see great deal of interest in the fact that we are what's new on the trade show floor. With gathering experts from around the globe to over fifty educational institutions and gov- discuss topics such as port security applica- ernment installations within earshot of tions, Tsunami early warning systems; Boston, one can really get an accurate snap autonomous underwater vehicles and glider shot of what's hot," said Mike Stewart, technologies; marine archeology; ocean Exhibits Chair of M.J. Stewart Associates.

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Second of Four FRVs Nears Completion vessel By Larry Pearson research projects. profile Although VT Halter Marine, Pascagoula, The vessel Henry B. Bigelow will support Miss., received significant damage during NOAAs mission to protect, restore, and Hurricane Katrina, the company continues manage coastal and ocean resources. Its pri- on schedule to complete the second of four mary objective will be to study, monitor planned fisheries research vessels (FRVs) for and collect data on a wide range of sea life the National Oceanographic and and ocean conditions, primarily in U.S. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by waters from Maine to North Carolina. The mid 2006. "Fortunately, the vessel was in area includes Georges Bank one of the the water when the hurricane hit us and we world's best known and most productive had it tied down well anticipating the marine areas. The vessel is named after strong winds we received," said Boyd E. Henry B. Bigelow (1879-1967); a Harvard- "Butch" King, president and CEO, VT educated zoologist whose work helped lay a Halter. Halter lost many welding machines scholarly foundation for oceanography as a including its two NC cutters, and received scientific discipline. Bigelow was an inter- structural damage to many buildings, nationally known expert on the Gulf of including its main office, but the fisheries Maine and in its sea life. He served on the vessel Henry B. Bigelow had advanced its faculty of Harvard University for 62 years. construction beyond the steel fabrication Henry B. Bigelow — the ship — has been stage, so its schedule will slip very little designed for a wide range of fisheries according to shipyard officials. research with capabilities for midwater Launched July 8, 2005, the $39 million, trawling, bottom trawling, hydroacoustic 208- by 49.2-ft. (63.4 x 15 m) vessel will be surveys and oceanographic and hydrograph- the second fisheries vessel in the planned ic operations. series of four. The first ship in the series, Capabilities also include handling special- Oscar Dyson, was christened May 28, 2005 ized gear such as MOCNESS frames in Kodiak, Alaska, where it will be home (Multiple Net System with one square ported and will conduct extensive studies of meter net opening when frame is towed at the Alaskan Pollock as well as other fisheries 45 degrees), floating and moored buoys,

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vessel profile

towed vehicles, dredges and bottom corers. region of hull-generated noise. Noise con- With the Henry B. All fluid discharges are on the port side of trol is a key design feature of the ship. Bigelow launched, the the ship to avoid contamination of sam- Underwater-radiated noise influences fish 208-ft. vessel was moved to a fitting out pling devices deployed from the starboard behavior and sonar self-noise can limit the pier where hundreds of side. effectiveness of hydroacoustic surveys and systems will be The vessel will feature a dynamic posi- installed before the tioning system to ensure trackline, course vessel is sent on sea Heavy Lifter trials and officially speed and heading are maintained during accepted by NOAA. operations. The engine room is designed Rapp Hydema was selected by VT Halter for unmanned operation and centralized Marine in May 2005 to supply the deck controls for fishing systems, ship speed and machinery for the third of its NOAA FRV- class vessels. Rapp provided hydro- maneuvering are provided by the Aft graphic, oceanographic, traction, CTD, Control Station on the bridge. and trawl winches for the first vessel, the Additional controls for speed and maneu- Oscar Dyson, and is presently working on vering are located at the main bridge con- installing same package for the second sole and on two wing stations. Local con- vessel, the Henry B. Bigelow. Additionally, Rapp supplied its PTS trols are provided for each winch and lift- Pentagon computerized winch control ing device. The Aft Control Station is system, which provides sophisticated located to give the operator maximum vis- auto-tension and another features. Rapp ibility of the working deck. Closed circuit has acted as single-system vendor (SSV) for most electronics integration from TV systems give the operators a view of deck to wheelhouse. Deck machinery below-deck winches and other areas of the underwent very rigorous shock and vibra- main deck. tion testing, among other qualification A unique centerboard (drop keel) is pro- measures, to meet NOAA's high standards prior to installation. vided so sensitive scientific transducers can Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & be lowered away from the ship out of the Click No. 25

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other functions. 1,560 sq. ft. of open space for fishing and vessel The International Council for Exploration other over-the-side operations with an addi- of the Seas (ICES) has established a standard tional 335 sq. ft. of deck space at the Side profile for ships' underwater radiated noise and the Sampling Station. Space and support con- Henry B. Bigelow meets this noise standard nections are provided for a laboratory van by utilizing specially constructed and bal- on the aft working deck. anced propulsion motors and mounting There are seven laboratories on the main diesel generators on double isolated raft sys- deck utilized by scientific personnel. In tems. addition there are electronics, machine and The hull form and a highly skewed five- bos'n shops to support the vessel by repair- blade propeller were carefully designed and ing and occasionally modifying scientific tested and pumps, ventilation systems and sampling equipment at sea. piping systems were designed for low noise. Henry B. Bigelow is a stern trawler capa- The Henry B. Bigelow basically utilizes a ble of working in water depths of 1,000 diesel electric propulsion system. A pair of fathoms. A split drum net reel is located 1,542 hp electric motors are mounted on a over the forward end of the trawl way, which common shaft driving a 4.3 m propeller. can stow two nets. Many features common There is also a 966 hp AC induction to commercial trawlers such as Gilson and azimuthing bowthruster also driven by an outhaul winches and a net sonde winch are electric motor. Power for the motors come included in the design. from a pair of 1,360 kW generators and a Each of the two trawl winches can deploy 910 kW diesel generator. Generators are by 13,120 ft. of 1.2-in. diameter trawl wire. Caterpillar. Each winch generates up to 35 metric tons The Henry B. Bigelow can reached a sus- of line pull. Smaller sampling nets and tained speed of 14 knots and has a range of towed fishing gear can be launched over the 12,000 nm and an endurance of 40 days. stern, over the side of the working deck or Crew complement includes four commis- from the starboard side-sampling station. sioned officers, three licensed engineers and Longlining and other types of fishing can 12 other crewmembers. The vessel can carry also be conducted. a maximum of 19 scientists. Total bunks are The vessel mounts two extendable boom 38. cranes, one articulated and one telescoping Most of the main deck is reserved for mis- servicing the working deck. Each crane can sion functions. The aft working deck has lift 8,000 lbs and can be used to lift the cod

The Sound of Silence VT Halter Marine has partnered with Noise Control Engineering (NCE) on many projects, and as President Raymond Fischer notes, "the NOAA FRV program has been the largest, most involved Halter project for our firm". In order to achieve the stringent underwater noise requirements (ICES CRR 209), Halter contracted with NCE from the beginning to perform critical engineering calculations, assist with design of noise control treatments and conduct a series of acoustical tests on the ship and its major components. NCE's Fischer notes, "The amount of design engineering on the Henry B. Bigelow is much less than the Oscar Dyson, but we have already conducted numerous sound and vibration tests on the BIGELOW's machinery and NCE will be continue to participate in the BIGELOW's sea trials where we will perform addition acoustic measurements such as airborne, structureborne, and underwater noise measurements." "This has been a great project for my firm", says Fischer. "Just from professional standpoint, my staff and I have published four papers on the FRV program. Having been involved in this program, we have been able to advise many other clients on the design and construction of ICES capable Research Vessels." Specializing in marine noise & vibration control, NCE is a nine-person engineering consulting firm located in suburban Boston. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 26

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end of the trawl net to dump the catch on sors. Surface buoys up to eight ft. in diam- the sorting table. Once onboard the net eter can be handled through hinged doors vessel contents are brought into the fish laborato- on each side of the working deck. ry for sorting, weighing, length measure- Water temperature, conductivity and flu- profile ments and sex and age characteristics for orescence can be measured as a function of selected samples. depth using the winches and a CTD sys- Wireless and hardwired systems are used tem. Local water currents are measured to monitor the shape of the trawl net dur- with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler ing fishing operations. The systems work while a multi-beam sonar system provides with an autotrawl system that sets trawl information on the content of the water depth and trawl wire tension. column and on the topography of the Modern fishing management relies heavi- seafloor while underway. ly on sonar systems. The most critical sys- A traction-type oceanographic winch can tem on the Henry B. Bigelow is the deploy up to 16,400 ft. of wire up to .68 in. Scientific Sonar System, which can accu- in diameter. It is located below the main rately measure the biomass of fish in the deck and configured to support operations survey area. The Scientific Sonar System is with the large hydraulically operated stern the primary tool for selected pelagic (off- gantry. Up to 13 metric tons of line pull bottom) fish with trawling used as a means can be generated by this winch. to verify species composition of observed Two hydrographic winches serve the Side fish schools and to obtain biological infor- Sampling Station via the side A-frame. mation. Not only can the Henry B. Each winch can deploy 11,480 ft. of .375- Bigelow conduct fishing operations, it is in. electromechanical wire. The A-frame is fully rigged to support oceanographic and configured so that up to three scientific hydrographic missions. It can deploy and packages can be rigged for sequential oper- recover floating and bottom-moored sen- ations.

Henry B. Bigelow: “Father” of Oceanography

Henry Bryant Bigelow, born in 1879, developed an early passion for nature, sailing and fishing that would ultimately lead to the foundation of modern oceanography. Raised on the Massachusetts coast, Bigelow enrolled at Harvard in 1897 and graduated cum laude in 1901. In 1921, Bigelow joined Harvard's faculty as Associate Professor of Zoology. In 1927, Bigelow was asked to prepare a scientific paper for the US National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Oceanography to address "…whether the United States was contributing as broadly as was desirable to the study of the oceans and if not, what should be

done to improve the situation." His work on this project persuaded the A A O Committee that more needed to be done in the field of oceanography, N : it d re which led to the establishment of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution C o ot (WHOI); incorporated in 1930. Bigelow served as its first Director from 1930 Ph to 1939, and his report, titled Oceanography: Its Scope, Problems, and Economic Importance, was published in 1931. Upon his retirement as director Henry B. Bigelow in 1939, he was a member on the Board of Trustees and, in 1960, was named Founder Chairman of the Board in recognition of his achievements there. Additionally, in 1961, the Institution established the Henry Bryant Bigelow Medal in his honor, of which he was the first recipient. Bigelow remained a member of the Harvard faculty during his time at WHOI and after; teaching for a total of 62 years. In jest, he remarked that the university owed him a bottle of whiskey for his loyal service; to his surprise, upon his retirement, he was presented with such a gift, "compliments of the President and Fellows." His autobiography notes that he is the only one to ever have been presented a bottle of whiskey on behalf of Harvard University. Bigelow died on December 11, 1967, at the age of 89. His last papers were published following his death, in 1968.

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Subsea Clean-up Begins in Hurricanes W

By Maggie L. Merrill

When the subject "Seafloor Engineering" was conceived as the primary editorial topic of MTR's November edition many months ago, little did we know that a trio of powerful hurricanes would wreak havoc in the Gulf of Mexico, both above and below the Gulf's waters. Though we are now more than two months removed from the first and the worst, Hurricane Katrina (pictured: NOAA Photo), we find obtaining primary sources for reports on the damage and recovery of offshore oil rigs and underwater moorings and pipelines difficult. Companies are often remiss to divulge full damage details, in fear of market or competitive repercussions. In addition, the owners of the rigs, operators of the survey and salvage boats and government agencies are all working overtime to return systems to full speed. Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Rebecca Watson testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Washington, D.C., in early September regarding the status of offshore oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.

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"Our focus now is to ensure that the offshore oil and gas plenty of steady work for those who conduct surveys operations are brought on-line safely and as soon as pos- using multi-beam bathymetry, side scan sonar, remotely sible," said Watson. "Although Hurricane Katrina (and operated vehicles (ROVs) and salvage of sunken and or Rita and Wilma) moved through a core area of offshore beached boats and in some cases oil rigs. According to one operations and damaged many production and explo- company, " the offshore work is high volume because we ration facilities, early reports indicate that the vast major- are working 24 hours a day seven days a week." The com- ity of facilities could be ready to come back on line in days panies who had dive boats; survey boats and special sal- and weeks, rather than months." vage equipment were hired immediately, reaping the Oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico supplies financial benefit of the massive destruction in the Gulf of 29 percent of domestic oil production and 21 percent of Mexico. domestic gas production. At its peak on August 30, 2005, Pipeline inspections using remotely operated vehicles as 95 percent of daily oil production and 88 percent of daily well as autonomous underwater vehicles have been in big gas production was shut in for environmental and human demand. Preliminary results indicate that there was less safety. Those percentages have fluctuated greatly during pipeline movement and tangling caused by hurricanes the approach and damage assessments of each storm as it Katrina and Rita, as compared with hurricane Ivan last passes through the Gulf of Mexico. fall. Initial pipeline inspections have revealed damage, Several of the companies contacted, specifically Science but generally damage and displacement was better than Applications International Corporation (SAIC), expected. Oceaneering, C & C Technologies and Fugro Geoservices Pipelines can be shut in and turned back on fairly quick- are providing inspection, survey, assessment and recovery ly. Many were shut in immediately before and after the services directly to the offshore oil and gas business. They, storms came through. According the MMS, there have as well as many other survey companies, have been on the been no spills reported. Much of the shut in issues are scene since early September and expect to be there centered on the wait for shoreside refineries to become through the winter. These companies were working full- operational. As they come on line, the pipelines will be time to obtaining damage assessments for the owners and turned on. operators of the rigs, and were not at liberty to discuss Rigs and pipelines broke free of huge moorings and specific details. drifted from one to 120 miles off their locations. Several All companies contacted were fully committed, with came ashore near the Mississippi River. 100 percent of assets and personnel in the field, with a MMS has reported significant damage and displace- backlog of work awaiting their return. It is clear, there is ment of several platforms. Of the roughly 4,000 Outer

You can’t fool Mother Nature, and you cannot engineer structures to always withstand her full wrath, as evidenced by these “before” and “after” photos of the the Mars Tension Leg Platform.

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Continental Shelf production facilities, 37 shallow water its own, as it broke its moorings and drifted nine miles platforms were destroyed; however, they only produced north. The Noble-Jim Thompson drifted 17 miles north- about one percent of total Gulf production. east. The Transocean-Deepwater Nautilus was secured by Four large deepwater platforms suffered extensive dam- company personnel 80 miles off its location. The Glomar age that could take up to three to six months to bring back Arctic-1 had eight 26,500 lb anchors, each with 5,100 ft. on line. Six rigs were reported adrift after Katrina. The of three-in. chain. Rowan-New Orleans rig capsized off the Louisiana coast. This rig/platform broke free and beached near the The Diamond Offshore-Ocean Voyager took a voyage on mouth of the Mississippi River.

Charbonneau Flies to DMR's Rescue Bill Charbonneau, of Benthos, Inc. of N. Falmouth, Mass., was called by one of his key Gulf Coast clients to help repair the C3D Side Scan Bathymetric control and display system. The system was sitting on the lab bench at the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) facility in Gulf Port, Miss., when Katrina hit. All staff had to evacuate leaving the topside unit to become flooded in over eight ft. of water that infiltrated the entire lab. Charbonneau gathered up the necessary equipment that included a topside processor and interface module and per- sonally delivered it to Gulfport. Charbonneau arrived at the Gulfport airport; the second flight after reopening of the airport on Thursday September 8. He was picked up at the airport by the cus- The National Ocean Service dock facility in Gulfport, tomer in one of the few remaining vehicles at the DMR Miss., completely ruined after Hurricane Katrina (photo courtesy Bill Charbonneau/Benthos, Inc.) facility, and he said the devastation was complete. At Oceans 2005, Charbonneau showed photos of his old haunts that included several casinos as well as the Naval Oceanographic Office's Boat Operations building. Those docks were completely destroyed and the building was gut- ted. Obviously everything inside was also ruined. Once on site and with everything hooked up, Charbonneau accompanied his client to conduct surveys in the Gulfport Harbor area. They were looking for objects that may pose a hazard to navigation. Among the debris located, shipping containers were found which had fallen into the harbor from the local commercial shipping piers. They were able to identify objects and mark them for others to visually inspect with remotely operated cameras or Mississippi Department of Marine Resources survey divers. DMR, whose main objective is marine fisheries, boat preparing to do survey after Hurricane Katrina. was called into service due to their highly sophisticated sur- (photo courtesy Bill Charbonneau/Benthos, Inc.) vey equipment and the availability of their survey vessel. DMR used the same dock as scientists from the completely demolished Gulf Port Aquarium. The marine mammal rescue team was going out into the bay to check on the eight dolphins that escaped from the Aquarium during Hurricane Katrina The team asked the DMR to survey the area to find a good spot to place the capture net. In just an hour the bottom was surveyed, all depths were known and a better place for the net was identified. This made it easier to feed, treat and monitor these mammals. — Maggie L. Merrill

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NRT's Step in to Assess Damage

NRT working in New Orleans with Jacson Square in Background.

Hurricane Katrina barreled into the mouth of the NOAA's teams worked around the clock to help restore Mississippi on Sunday Sept. 4-5, 2005, bringing with it a safe navigation channels. "The currents of the Mississippi tremendous underwater force that caused major damage River are so rapid that obstructions that are identified are to the shipping channels. Many ships and structures were sometimes washed away before they can be removed, damaged during the storm and some of the bridges and requiring the Navigation Response Teams to go back and waterways within the mouth of the Mississippi were resurvey," said Parsons. blocked. The USCG closed the port to commercial ship- Three days before Katrina hit, NOAA dispatched four of ping traffic, a significant event when one considers that 95 its trailerable NRTs Navigation Response Teams to the percent of overseas trade goods pass through American Gulf area in preparation for the storm's aftermath. The ports each year, and the Port of New Orleans is the fifth NRTs are 30 ft. boats manned by three persons, equipped largest U.S. port. with side scan sonar to survey waterways for underwater To determine the safety of the waterways, the USCG hazards to vessels. When sonar detects an obstruction on contacted the Emergency Response Team of NOAA's the sea bottom, divers determine what it is. Sonar also National Ocean Service to come to MS to survey the provides exact water depth over the obstruction. These channels. "It requires an immense coordination between boats are used for the close to shore and inner harbor work the various divisions of NOAA, the U.S. Army Corps of and the larger NOAA ships, Nancy Foster and Thomas Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, local port authorities, Jefferson were deployed to conduct survey work offshore. state officials and our assets on site to ensure that all criti- Waterways must be surveyed and cleared before oil cal waterways are clear," said Captain Roger Parsons, tankers, cargo ships, and other vessels can safely transit the NOAA Corps, who is director of NOAA's Office of Coast area. In recent years, ships have gotten longer, wider and Survey. deeper, and determining precise water depths is imperative

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for safe navigation. Hurricanes can play havoc with the sea bottom, rendering the depths and obstructions on nautical charts obsolete. These findings are reported to the Coast Guard, which has authority to open and close waterways, mark shipping channels with aids to navigation (buoys), and send out its daily Report to Mariners that publishes changes to nautical charts. The Army Corps of Engineers, which is responsible for obstructions in the extremely polluted waters. dredging the Mississippi River and port areas to maintain NOAA's Office of Coast Survey is maintaining a Web safe depths, is responsible for removing the obstructions site with current information relating to post-Katrina sur- NOAA finds. veys, including areas of operation and findings. Please see: The U.S. Navy also dispatches salvage ships and divers http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/nsd/katrina.htm. to the area to aid in removal of wrecks, and check out — Maggie L. Merrill

Behind Every Sonar Track: Great Sonar Data Processor NOAA's Office of Coast Survey Development Lab, Hydrographic Systems and Technology Program technician, Steve Brodet and his team were dispatched to assess the ability of NOAA's closest offshore research vessel, the 180-ft. Nancy Foster to be retrofitted to conduct high resolution bottom bathymetry of key shipping channels and approaches to Mobile Bay right after Hurricane Katrina hit. Ms. Shyla Allen was the lead hydrographer for the team, which also included Michael Annis and Eric Moore. Nancy Foster was on station and ready for surveying on Saturday September 10. The crew installed a RESON 8124 MultiBeam sonar on pole mounted over the side of the ship and conducted multi beam surveys Steve Brodet and Rob Downs, both of NOAA's Office of of the approaches to Mobile Bay starting at the MOA Coast Survey in Silver Spring, Maryland at Oceans 2005 in Washington DC buoy off the bay. One feature they did observe was the shifting of a sand bar that resulted in soundings that were 46 ft. prior to the storm and had shoaled up to 42 ft. afterward. The Triton ISIS software system was used to acquire the data from the RESON unit. To correct for the sonar's positioning, an Applanix vessel position motion sensor was installed. The team also used the CARIS HIPS system to evaluate the raw data to determine the differ- ence between actual bottom features and stray acoustic shadowing. All the data that resulted was put into a Digital Terrain Model, which compares new soundings with old ones. The final data is used to update hydrographic charts, which in turn was used immediately by the USCG to determine the status of the main shipping channel. Most of the time in standard hydrographic surveys, side scan sonar is also used to provide a larger scale picture of the bottom. In this case, the Klein 3000 towed fish was installed and ready for use, by it was not used on this particular mission.

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USGS Stepping Up to Assess Damage When Hurricane Katrina hit the mouth of the Mississippi near New Orleans, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) was asked to assess the damage to the barrier islands; the wetlands and the bird foot delta (mouth of the Mississippi). What USGS saw was remarkable and can be seen in the before and after shots shown on the opposite page. The USGS used LIDAR Mapping data supplied by NASA as well as aerial videos taken from the LIDAR aircraft. The information showed the decimation of the Chandelier Islands, located immediately east of the delta. "We can define the health and stability of a barrier island by its length, width and height, and volume of sand com- prising the barriers. Before Katrina hit, the islands were in excellent health. Now they are about gone. The big ques- tion now is: what can be expected in terms of these islands (L-R) Tom O'Brien, technical operations manager; Chris Polloni, Image Processing Director; S. Jeffress Williams, re-forming. Will all the sand migrate back as has been seen Sr. marine scientist, all of the Coastal and Marine in the past, or was the intensity of Katrina such that the Geology Program at the USGS science center located on sand has gone elsewhere for ever," said Jeff Williams, Sr. the Quissett Campus of the Woods Hole Oceanographic scientist, USGS, Woods Hole, Mass. Institution. The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology team studies flooding at bay and because of the gradual impact of all how the coast has evolved over time. The organization the oil and gas being pumped out from under the wet- looks at barrier islands, beaches, rivers, lakes and wetlands lands and barrier islands. and they make maps, lots of maps. USGS constantly Basically, the land on which New Orleans and its sur- updates its coastal and offshore atlas via annual surveys. rounding communities sits is like a big sponge that has The USGS is constantly surveying the coastlines of the had the moisture and air squeezed or sucked out of it, U.S. Its mapping is part of a national research program to leaving it compacted. USGS and Army Corps of better understand changes to areas of the coast that are Engineers data show that 80 percent of the area's "sink- most vulnerable to storm damage and sea-level rise. Thus, ing" is due to subsidence from natural compaction as well USGS, has a huge database of coastal features around the as oil removal and 20 percent is due to global sea level rise. U.S., including all along the Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, According to USGS documents, sea level has been increas- Alabama, Texas coast lines in the Gulf of Mexico. ing for the past 20,000 years due to glaciers melting and The USGS has been studying the degradation of the the oceans warming. Lately it has, however increased due mouth of the Mississippi and the barrier islands and wet- to warmer ocean water temperature. Warmer water lands that protect New Orleans for more than 20 years. It expands and takes up more room, hence sea levels rise. is a fact that New Orleans is sinking and sea level is rising. Williams and his colleagues have a huge data base and Coupled with two 100-year storms such as Katrina and know a great deal about the geologic history and evolution Rita, the devastation we now see is not surprising. of the delta plain, New Orleans and the surrounding According to Williams relative sea level is increasing at marshes and barrier islands. Now they want to update that about one meter/100 years. At the same time the city of and re-survey the entire region and compare the after New Orleans and its surrounding area is subsiding (sink- Katrina and Rita storm data to prior to the storms. With ing). The reason for the subsidence is due to a combina- that information they will be able to provide accurate tion of natural and man-made causes, such as 200 years of information about where rebuilding would be most suc- water being pumped out from under the city to keep daily

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cessful. USGS has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of Interior to do near and long term mapping and research to provide scientific information on the affect of major storms on barrier islands, wetlands and offshore sea floor features. The resulting information will assist with predicting the impact of storms on other coastal cities at risk to storms and sea-level rise such as New York, Galveston, Norfolk and Miami, for instance. USGS in Woods Hole will collaborate with all other branches of the Geological Survey including St. Petersburg, Fla., and Lafayette, La., as well as other partner federal and state agencies. It is possible that conducting this type of work may fall into a "pure science" category. It may be a tough sell when competing with other more pressing budget allocations such as storm relief, department of defense spending, or social security, for example. But one must ask: can we afford not to do this work while we see these storms increasing in frequency and intensity? Given the severity and frequency of hurricanes in the last two years; Ivan, Dennis, Katrina and Rita does this portend an ominous trend for the future? "Probably, but not necessarily" says Williams, " I will feel better about blaming these storms on global warming after two or three more years of storms of their power." There is no doubt that the ocean is warmer and the rate of sea level rise has increased in the past 20 years. There is no doubt that sea level has risen and the sea surface temperature has increased at about the same rate as green house gasses are being emitted into the atmosphere. Water is experiencing ther- Before and After Photo Comparisons: mal expansion and many of the glaciers are melting at a frightening rate. Chandeleur Islands But, says Williams we are also about 10 years into a period of increased The Chandeleur Islands are a north-south storm activity that seems to be part of a 30-year natural cycle, and not oriented chain of low-lying islands located approximately 100 km east of the city of related to climate warming. New Orleans, La. Above, photo pairs reveal the nearly complete destruction of Technologies Used the islands in recent hurricane seasons. United State Geological Survey is quite efficient in how they go about The first image in each pair was taken in July 2001, before Hurricanes Lili (2002), obtaining the information needed to understand the changes occurring Ivan (2004), Dennis (2005), and Katrina to various parts of the US coast. USGS works closely with NOAA and (2005, the strongest and closest in prox- the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. When the USGS needs oceano- imity to the Chandeleurs). The second graphic data, it often uses "vessels of opportunity" to obtain this infor- image was taken on August 31, 2005, mation. In some cases the USGS uses its own research vessel, the RV two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana and Mississippi Gilbert, a 50-ft. boat that operates out of St. Petersburg, Fla.. Mostly, coastline. USGS leases private survey boats or piggy back with NOAA and com- bine surveys done by the National Ocean Service. To create an overview The first image, taken in July 2001, of the sea floor, SWATH Bathymetry is used. This is a sonar transmitter shows narrow sandy beaches and adja- cent overwash sandflats, low vegetated which employs a single transmit array and multiple receiver arrays that dunes, and backbarrier marshes broken projects and acoustic impulse that spreads like a fan to the sea floor. The by ponds and channels. The second reflected backscatter is sensed by the multiple receivers and displayed as image shows the same location on August side scan sonar and bathymetry data on the surface vessel. The systems 31, 2005, two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana used by the USGS for the after Katrina work were built by SEA, Ltd. of and Mississippi coastline. Storm surge Bath, England. In addition to the SWATH and Side Scan, CHIRP tech- and large waves from Hurricane Katrina nology is used to provide even more detailed information about the bot- submerged the islands, stripped sand tom compositions. Edgetech 512 I Chirp system at 500 - 12,000 hertz from the beaches, and eroded large sec- and the Edgetech 424 4000 - 24000 hertz are the CHIRPS of choice tions of the marsh. Today, few recogniza- ble landforms are left on the Chandeleur for this part of the USGS. Island chain.

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Salvage takes Center Stage Story and photos by Don Sutherland Houses were in the water, and boats were on the land. thirty, after a short stop at New Orleans for fuel. "Who They were up on the levees, out on the highways, deep in had the big idea of putting headquarters in Alexandria?" the woods - towboats, barges, shrimpers, sometimes said Rudy Teichman, the founder of T&T Marine Salvage behind tall trees that looked too thick to bend out of the of Galveston, Texas. He had parts to deliver, a small box way. How, in the name of Mother Nature, did they get in for something aboard the Big-T, the company's 600-ton there? How would they get out? How would they all get crane barge that arrived in position a few days before. The out? It was a spectacle for the first few minutes as the hel- drive by car would have been four hours or more -- from icopter sped past, with Alexandria, to Lafayette, to rooftops poking through Baton Rouge, to New waters and motorboats, Orleans, to Belle Chasse, to upside down, drifting Venice where the crane was - through onetime back yards. if the roads were open. But as the helicopter contin- Information was still spotty ued south, the spectacle that 18th of September, became more like a within three weeks of sideshow, something to Katrina's hit, but it was a gawk at, like an accident at safe bet there were closures the side of the road -- a bat- east and south of Baton tered church here, a pile of Rouge. The helicopter sped school buses there, cars that past bits and pieces, the roof might have been new weeks of a house on one side of a before - all in the water, up bridge, a wall with a door- to the sills and higher. The way on another, ongoing for panorama was unbroken, forty minutes, fifty. continuous, contiguous, Port Sulphur, Buras, they blending waters here blue, were down there some- there brown, some smeared where, or at least the memo- in dark rainbow hues, punc- ry of them was. They were tuated by flotsam pressed part of the territory in against the stands of trees, Katrina's eye when she came the shoulders of highways. ashore. Near Empire was the The helicopter sped over icon of the storm for south- the littered, lifeless land- ern Louisiana, two large yel- View from atop the Big T, T&T Marine’s 600-ton floating scape for twenty minutes, crane, taken in Venice, La. low boats, 160-footers, high 30 MTR November 2005 MTR#3 (17-32).qxd 11/15/2005 2:44 PM Page 31

and dry with their keels on the divider of La. 23. Nearby, New Orleans and south, and active Coast Guard and a stack four or six deep, of shrimpers of all sizes, outriggers reservists, and Navy personnel, and people from the Corps broken and tangled. Everywhere, in ones and twos, a of Engineers and NOAA, and VPs and presidents of sal- quarter or half mile inland from the Mississippi, lay the vage operators working through the ASA (American large steel shrimpers, some standing upright, some on Salvage Association). "The Louisiana Convention their sides. Center?" said an officer in an Alexandria P.D. prowler, "You think this is bad?" said Teichman. "Wait till you see "make a right on MacArthur, it's almost straight across Empire. We can't fit the Big-T through on the Mississippi from the motel, used to be a Day's Inn, don't know what side, so we'll have to come in from the Gulf side, past the they call it now ... " bays and bayous. That's the long way around. I'd hate to Including its access or frontage roads, MacArthur Drive get stuck in there during hurricane season." is an eight-lane thoroughfare, with US. 71 AND US 165 Teichman and the pilot, down for the duration from combined for a link to I-95, thence I-10, the road to New Alaska, discussed places to land at Venice, whose littered Orleans and beyond - places like Gulfport, Stennis and terrain looked treacherous. A small open patch along a Pascagoula in Mississippi, and points south in Alabama. short channel looked like it would work, across from an Considering the range of destruction, Alexandria among enormous crane barge - Southern Hercules was the name towns unscarred must have seemed centrally located. on the stern -- with half to three-quarters of its length The buildings on both sides of MacArthur are low like driven up on the shore. At most along suburban on the opposite shore was byways, malls and fast-food the Big-T and its entourage stops, and perhaps the area's of tugs and small workboats. greatest concentration of The Big Boomer, all fore- hotels and motels - all of deck and fenders, sped Mr. them packed, dirty accord- Teichman and the box of ing to residents including parts to the Big-T. Updates Coast Guard personnel were exchanged, a few whose own homes had been instructions given, then the lost, trashed by civilian tran- helicopter rose for the return sients according to man- to Alexandria before the sun agers, but with roofs over- disappeared. It was early in a head and clean linens. salvage operation of excep- Within short range of the tional scale, but some of its lodgings was the equally patterns were already clear. T&T crew helps preparations for a look at a hang-up squat convention center. It Nothing would be easy. underwater. was no Hynes or Javits or Nothing would be quick. There was much to learn. Moscone, or even Moriel, but its offices had doors that could close-in on briefings, its exhibition floor had a Incident Command Alexandria broad open expanse where tables and chairs, computers Whosever idea it was, Alexandria had its attractions and charts, formed offices of sorts where people from each from a logistical point of view. Foremost, perhaps, was the service could mix and confer. airport - a regional setup in scope, but accustomed to mid- "It's the first time so many different agencies have come size commercial jets and, unlike New Orleans, mostly under one roof," said Capt. Jim Wilkins, Supervisor of intact. "We'd like to welcome and thank the relief work- Salvage and Diving for the U.S. Navy's Sea Systems ers who've joined us," came the voice from the cockpit in Command, "military and industry together. But each has a flight out of Atlanta, although there was only one white a jurisdiction and responsibility. Sometimes they might vest with a red cross aboard, "emergency relief" printed overlap, there sometimes could be gaps. They can coordi- beneath. nate here face to face." Alexandria was far enough north for the worst of the Topping the agenda was the creation of an agenda -- storm to miss, most of the locals describing a hosing and building a list of priorities in the wake of "the most dev- high winds. But then came the flood of humanity from astating hurricane to strike the United States," in the

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words of the Coast Guard. A national emergency was Lake Pontchartrain, where immediate attention had been already underway and the object now was to avert a required. Katrina's storm surge had tossed massive struc- national crisis. The waterways of the region, the rivers and tures around - towboats, barges, drydocks - like bathtub canals and ports, are the principal routes of domestic toys. Before bargeloads of rocks could be brought to the petroleum and seafood inbound, grain and coal out- lake to patch-up the levee, the way had to be cleared. bound. The place to start, for national agencies, was the Bisso Marine was near at hand. national well-being -- local regions' needs were also high With commercial navigation on the verge of recovery, on the agenda, but they would be next. attention in that third week was turning to local condi- While many ports were damaged - or nearly obliterated, tions -- things off the national highway, but requiring in the case of some between Belle Chasse and Venice - the prompt attention. "We have two heavy lifters," said the main maritime arteries were in fairly good shape. The Navy's Capt. Wilkins, "Donjon Marine, and they've sub- Intracoastal Canal and the Mississippi were relatively clear contracted T&T. of wrecks and debris, and could quickly be opened to day- Other ASA members have contracted privately for light navigation. Along most of the routes, the main task removing large barges from levees, raising the larger vessels was to re-establish aids to navigation and get transit back and the like, and the smaller commercial and recreational to 24 x 7. "That we should have by the end of this week," vessels can be assisted by local sources." said the Coast Guard's Master Chief David Coffman by The costs would be charged to the insurers, or to the Sept. 17. "We had to wait for searches and researches to be otherwise responsible parties "the salvage operation will completed," with NOAA not come out of the taxpay- and the Army Corps ascer- er's pocket." taining where, perhaps, even a trailerable 55-footer might Season's Greetings not wish to go. Besides mar- "We have been contracted itime wrecks, there could be to the U.S. Navy for salvage trees in the water, and pieces and related services in the of bridges, and sometimes southern Atlantic zone; people. There were more which includes the Gulf," than 900 navigational said John Witte Jr. of devices in the Gulf Donjon Marine, "a contract Intracoastal alone, Master we've won every five years Chief Coffman said, but the since 1979. But in an event day before they'd worked In many instances, it was not necessary to use underwa- as all-encompassing as this, 208. They were getting ter technology to find wrecked boats. nobody's ever had the train- there. ing." Witte describes a triad "The thing we always try to impress upon folks," said set-up by FEMA, the Corps of Engineers, and the Coast Roger Parsons, Director, Office of Coast Survey, "is that Guard, to identify and fund wreck removal. The Navy was our assets are deployed during non-emergencies, teams are brought in to work as a conduit for technical expertise. pre-staged. We had 22 NOAA vessels ready to go, with "We joined the effort on the Saturday after the storm," fathometers and sidescan sonar to determine what's sunk said Witte, "to support the Navy with salvage assistance in the water, or where it's silted-in." Said Howard and our employees. We also supplied a commercial mech- Danley, Chief of the Navigation Services Division, "In anism to provide all the services that are needed," which Alexandria, we had two phone conversations daily, con- by the third week of October included subcontracting to ducted with the Captain of the Port of New Orleans and local operators. Witte describes the "shock value" of his all Federal players, to keep positive on what assets were first flyby over Plaquemines Parish - where everything available, what their capabilities were, what results of pre- from Belle Chasse to Venice and Pilot Town beyond is or vious days results. I thought the coordination was out- was located - as "sobering." As much as the sight of it all standing." would prompt immediate responses, the future in this sce- It was the Industrial Canal, toward the east end of New nario was as sobering as the past. Orleans, connecting the Intracoastal, the Mississippi, and (Continued on page 64) 32 MTR November 2005 MTR#3 (33-48).qxd 11/14/2005 4:30 PM Page 33

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Port Security System designed to Detect Divers It's a grim fact that ships in port, whether they are Navy the world. Undersea mines or limpets strategically placed ships or pleasure cruisers, are at increased risk of terror- on a ship's hull can create substantial damage. To counter ism. A single diver, or a team of divers can easily slip into this threat, a Diver Detection Sonar is one of the primary the water from shore or a nearby boat and approach a ship components of a harbor security system. Sonar provides at pier side without detection. Reports earlier this year the initial detection and tracking of divers, swimmers and noted that terrorist organizations linked to Al Qaeda were mini submersibles at sufficient ranges to allow response providing training in scuba diving for attacks at sea and in forces time to act. SAIC's Integrated Harbor Security port. System employs a state-of-the art diver detection sonar Currently, our commercial and military ports are with many adjustable elements that provide optimal increasing security levels, but are the systems up to the long-range performance in shallow water. Upon the ini- task? Threats range from low-tech suicide bombers to tial detection of intrusion, effective signal processing sophisticated terrorists and include introduction of a allows the system to automatically track and display divers WMD into a port area in a shipping container. A wide in high clutter environments, such as noisy harbors. variety of integrated, disparate sensors are necessary to SAIC offers a swimmer detection system designed to generate a high level of situational awareness in and provide an easily deployed and re-configurable detection around the port while facilitating rather than hampering barrier around ships or other high value targets in harbors the flow of commerce. or channels. The system is called the Acoustic Fence. As a leading company of integrated port security solu- "The Acoustic Fence is really a line of cable deployed at tions, Science Applications International Corporation any desired standoff distance around a docked ship, a pier (SAIC) has developed multiple, layered security systems or across a channel," said Larry McDonald, senior scien- aimed at providing broad based situational awareness, tist at SAIC and one of the inventors of the Acoustic early threat detection and event management. Using both Fence. "Every 20 feet there is a sonar transducer that pings SAIC-developed technology and commercially available and looks for anything that moves underwater in the area hardware as appropriate, the systems are designed to pro- near the fence. Some processing is done in the transduc- duce cost-effective solutions that enhance maritime secu- er nodes, and the data is communicated back to a laptop rity. One important element of port security is often the computer for further processing and display. It can be last to be enhanced. Waterfront security has traditionally deployed under any existing boom line, or integrated with been largely ignored except at military ports. With the SAIC's Harbor Fence system." The Harbor Fence is a current level of threats, ignoring this aspect is now done portable, reusable, environmentally friendly floating at our peril. device designed to provide a visible line of demarcation The requirements for successful maritime security are to around a ship moored pier side, across choke points or intensify surveillance and security measures, provide com- entrances, or around other waterfront high-value assets. It mand situation awareness on and around the water, ensure a rapid and effective threat response and provide The harbor fence and the underwater sentry deployed the overall security for high value assets and critical infra- around cruise ships in port. The harbor fence and under- structure. To do this, a variety of sensors and subsystems water sentry are controlled via a laptop computer interface. If the systems are breached or disturbed by any- are integrated to allow coverage in depth and notice of thing other than a natural sea state — cut or bumped — intrusion from any quarter. an alarm will sound and the breach is indicated on the Undersea threats, such as divers, have exacted a heavy laptop. Depending on rules of engagement, the appropri- toll on moored ships and on facilities in several areas in ate action will be taken.

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is a string of lightweight "smart" fence posts (buoys) (whether coupled with the Harbor Fence or other boom incorporating multiple embedded sensors in each post. A line) is essentially a tripwire - you can place it wherever major feature of the fence is that it keeps small boats and you want to and change the shape as necessary," said other "nuisance" traffic well away from the high-value McDonald. "It's built in 120 foot sections for easy assem- asset, simplifying the surveillance and security task. If the bly and connection, and can be taken on ships for re- Harbor Fence is breached in any way by surface craft, the deployment in foreign harbors or deployed as a fixed sys- embedded sensors transmit data to a laptop control con- tem. "We designed the system to be set up and taken sole and alarms are automatically generated. The system down from a small boat in an hour or so, depending on provides unattended waterside intrusion detection night the length required," he said. "Once the system is turned or day in all weather conditions, and provides a map dis- on, it doesn't require an operator to watch over it. It play showing the location of the intrusion. Options sends out an alarm if it detects an intrusion, and if what include remote alarms, system operation over the inter- it detects acts like a diver, it sends out an even higher level net, automatic camera pointing, and audible warnings on of alarm. The system does not require the high acoustic the fence posts themselves. "The Acoustic Fence power needed by most diver sonar. This eliminates the

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concern over environmental issues in ports." The Harbor and Acoustic Fences were deployed and tested around the aircraft carrier museum USS Midway in San Diego for six months. It recently passed its proof of concept for the Navy and Coast Guard. McDonald pointed out that the Acoustic Fence can be adapted for other anti-swimmer applications. "For a more fixed installation, it can be placed on the sea bottom and set to look upward to detect divers, or other intrusions," he said. "It can also be placed on the pilings of a pier looking outward. This ensures a diver can't approach or hide explosives under the pier." The need to exclude or intercept hostile personnel and dangerous material in our seaports is the first line of domestic defense. By incorporating multiple layers of sensors and surveillance, SAIC's Integrated Harbor Security Systems provide a cutting-edge technology solution to Richard Theisen (left) and Rick Barnes study the com- respond rapidly and effectively to threats to help keep the puter interface for security breaches in the fence and the trade and supply chain open with a minimum of risk and underwater sentry system. The harbor fence was personal safety. deployed around the USS Midway, a carrier museum in San Diego.

Above: The harbor fence deployed around the Sapphire Princess.

Left: Deployment of the harbor fence from pierside.

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Lessons Learned Military Ops with Hugin AUVs Since 2001, the Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN) Mine past eight years - the accumulated billed survey distance Warfare Flotilla has used HUGIN autonomours under exceeds 50,000 km. Survey companies in Norway, USA, water vehicles (AUVs) in a number of military operations and The Netherlands currently own and operate HUGIN around Europe. A dedicated military system, HUGIN vehicles around the world. On the military side, the Royal 1000, was delivered to the Flotilla in January 2004. The Norwegian Navy Mine Warfare Flotilla has operated AUV is operated from a RNoN mine hunter, and has HUGIN vehicles since 2001. In response to a NATO ini- been deployed in NATO's Immediate Reaction Force tiative to accelerate national force goals, the RNoN in MCMFORNORTH from October 2004. Various types January 2003 instructed FFI to deliver a pre-production of operations have been performed, ranging from route military version of HUGIN for MCM and REA opera- surveys to covert mine reconnaissance and Rapid tions. The vehicle, HUGIN 1000, was delivered in Environmental Assessment (REA) missions. January 2004 and started operations shortly thereafter. Equipped with side scan or synthetic aperture sonar, Before the dedicated military HUGIN 1000 AUV was multibeam echo sounder, and a state of the art integrated delivered, the test and development platform HUGIN I inertial navigation system, the HUGIN AUVs provide was made available to the RNoN on several occasions. A high quality, high resolution imagery and bathymetry permanent installation of the infrastructure necessary to with excellent position accuracy. A proven launch and run full-capability HUGIN missions from the mine recovery system allows safe and efficient operation in high hunter KNM Karmøy was completed in the summer of sea states. In parallel with the use of the HUGIN 1000 2002. The limitations of the aging HUGIN I vehicle system in the RNoN, a new version with an improved (short endurance, COTS survey sensors, etc) notwith- capability is being developed. Lessons learned during four standing, this increased the Navy's understanding of AUV years of operational military use of HUGIN vehicles will operations, and of the strengths and weaknesses of the help form the next generation, called HUGIN 1000-MR. civilian HUGIN versions. Thus, the Navy was able to The RNoN recently placed an order with Kongsberg assist in the specification of the HUGIN 1000 based on Maritime for such as system, for delivery in 2006. actual experience. From the start of the HUGIN AUV program in the early 1990s, a dual use strategy has been followed where Operations technologies and solutions have been developed for both On several occasions in 2002 and 2003, KNM Karmøy the military and the civilian market. HUGIN has been performed route surveys in key areas around Norway. This developed jointly by the Norwegian Defence Research was combined with testing of the HUGIN infrastructure Establishment (FFI) and Kongsberg Maritime. A total of and training of key personnel onboard the mine hunter. 10 vehicles have been built or are under production. Bathymetric maps with sub-meter resolution were pro- The HUGIN 3000 vehicles duced using data from the have enjoyed success in the com- Kongsberg EM3000 multi-beam mercial survey industry over the echo sounder onboard HUGIN I, and a low-cost side scan sonar Detail of EM3000 bathymetry from Sonar Equipment Services data transferred in real time from HUGIN 1000 in Norway to provided seabed imagery. Norfolk, VA. The gaps are caused HUGIN played a role in an early by drop-outs in the acoustic data CDE (Concept Development and link from HUGIN. Note the near- Experimentation) operation in the perfect match between the real- preparatory phase of the Northern time bathymetry contours (grey) and the 10-m contours from an Light 03 NATO exercise. The earlier surface survey. objective was to survey a corridor

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HUGIN 1000 being launched from KNM Karmøy in the Baltic Sea during its 2004 deployment in MCMFORNORTH.

500 m wide and 12 nautical miles long in Luce Bay, AUV operations, data was processed further at FFI in Scotland. The data collected was to be used to verify his- Norway and NURC in Italy. The end result, a set of AML toric data and plan MCM operations before an amphibi- (Additional Military Layers) files, was then transferred to ous landing. HUGIN I completed four successful mis- the exercise headquarters in Northwood, UK for use by sions in 48 hours, operating the vehicle on a tight sched- MCMVs during the clearance operation. ule: To maximize area coverage in the shallow water (10- Bathymetry of part of the amphibious landing route sur- 30 m), each mission was performed during the six hours veyed by HUGIN I for Northern Light 03. Grid spacing of highest tide, while the batteries were recharged during 1 x 0.5 ft., water depth 14-32 m. The green lines indicate the six hours of lowest tide. The vehicle also had to com- the area to be surveyed, 6 nmi x 500 m; white lines indi- bat tidal currents of up to three knots. While the AUV cate HUGIN's trajectory. primarily operated autonomously, the mine hunter was usually locat- 2003 MCM demo, Finland ed within a few nautical miles of Less than two weeks after HUGIN I. Two-way acoustic Northern Light, KNM Karmøy communication was available at up to 2-3 nautical miles in very The US submarine Nautilus sunk outside Bergen in 1931. This shallow water. Data from each image, using side scan imagery mission was brought to shore for draped over multibeam bathyme- immediate processing on a provi- try, was produced with the Triton sional shore lab set up by NURC Imaging post-processing software on the mine hunter and transmit- (NATO Undersea Research ted to the US 2-3 hours after AUV Center). In the days following the recovery.

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and HUGIN performed a series of MCM demonstrations were once again in the Baltic Sea. Two mine-like objects for the Finnish Navy outside Hanko, Finland. The AUV detected and classified from HUGIN 1000 sonar data CONOPS demonstrated included route survey, mine were investigated by divers and turned out to be live mapping, and covert REA. Change detection was used to mines, later neutralized. locate mine-like objects laid between two AUV missions. Some of the missions were performed fully autonomous- Lessons Learned ly, with the ship anchored outside the operations area. From the very beginning, an important tenet of the While the crew were asleep, HUGIN mapped a three sq. HUGIN AUV program has been to use the sea as our lab- km area in approximately six hours. Challenges encoun- oratory. New concepts, new techniques and new subsys- tered in Finnish waters included operating in a low salin- tems are tested at sea early in the development cycle, ity environment (salinity approximately 7 parts per thou- instead of spending large amounts of time in simulations sand). before the first sea trials. We believe that bringing the systems to the sea, while obviously not completely risk-free, 2004 NATO exercises results in a much steeper learning curve and frequently Just six weeks after the delivery of the HUGIN 1000 provides new insights that simulations cannot. By going pilot system, the mine hunter and the new AUV partici- to sea early, lessons learned from sea trials can be fed back pated in the Joint Winter 04 NATO exercise outside to the development process at an early stage, while there Northern Norway. 13 AUV missions were completed, is still room for major design changes. Kongsberg mainly covert REA and MCM surveys. In May 2004, Maritime's development and manufacturing facility in HUGIN 1000 participated in the NATO exercise Blue Horten, Norway is set up so that HUGIN sea trials can be Game 04. Missions executed included a survey of the nar- performed at modest cost and only a few days' notice. row harbour areas around Arendal, Norway. The HUGIN MRS program has followed the same principles. HUGIN 1000 is the first HUGIN vehicle 2004 MCMFORNORTH deployment developed and produced specifically for a military cus- In 2004, KNM Karmøy and HUGIN 1000 were tomer. However, the deployments of the older HUGIN I deployed in NATO's standing MCM Force North. AUV vehicle with the Navy during the development provided missions were executed in the waters of Lithuania, Latvia, extensive input as to what improvements were needed. Germany and Denmark. Among the missions performed Some improvements (e.g., to the operator system soft- were mine clearance operations in the Baltic Sea, which is ware) were made available to the Navy before the new littered with tens of thousands of mines and other unex- vehicle was delivered, allowing Navy personnel to evaluate ploded ordnance from the last century. them at the earliest possible stage. In addition to ensuring that the end product is well suit- Azalea Festival 2005 ed to the task, this process has the additional benefits that On April 20, 2005, HUGIN 1000 executed a mission the Navy personnel feels ownership of the technology, and outside Bergen, Norway with real-time data transmission that they are able to follow the progress of the develop- to the U.S. In conjunction with the annual Azalea Festival ment closely. in Norfolk, Va., a NERA F77 Inmarsat satcom system was A significant challenge encountered with the HUGIN installed on the mine hunter, providing 128 kbps data 1000 development was with the main sensor, the transfer rate and Internet access. Data was transmitted EdgeTech 4400-SAS sonar. Early field experience identi- acoustically between HUGIN and the mine hunter, then fied some issues in the control system and SAS processor, via the Inmarsat system to a display computer in Norfolk. many of which are now resolved. Furthermore, the sonar Visitors to the festival were thus able to see bathymetric design limited the data quality of the SAS in some chal- maps of the seafloor being built in real time by an AUV lenging conditions. Unfortunately, Norwegian coastal on the other side of the Atlantic. As the connection was waters are among the most challenging areas in the world two-way, it was also possible to send commands from for SAS, and it has taken a substantial amount of work to Norfolk to the AUV. get the sonar up to an acceptable level of performance. Another issue with synthetic aperture sonar is that SAS MCMOPLAT 2005, Latvia images have some fundamental differences from high fre- In May-June 2005, KNM Karmøy and HUGIN 1000 quency side scan images. It takes time for a trained side

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Visitors at the Azalea Festival watch the real-time HUGIN data, including US Secretary of the Navy Gordon England, Norwegian Minister of Defence Kristin Krohn Devold, and Norwegian Ambassador to the US, Knut Vollebæk.

scan sonar operator to get used to the characteristics of area was mined, but it is difficult to fully avoid in times of SAS images, and to be able to properly use SAS data. peace. A major part of the HUGIN MRS program has been to transition the deep-water technology designed for The Future HUGIN 3000 to military operations, which generally In May 2005, the Royal Norwegian Navy ordered a next take place in relatively shallower water. While it is gener- generation HUGIN 1000-MR system from Kongsberg ally true that deep-water operations are more difficult, the Maritime. This will be a full capability system, compared challenges unique to shallow-water operations should not to the reduced capability HUGIN 1000 pilot system be underestimated. This is especially the case for fully delivered 2004. The most significant changes concern the covert, fully autonomous operations in confined and/or payload suite. HUGIN 1000-MR will feature a more unknown areas. The development model followed is robust, more capable SAS as its main sensor. The design rewarding, but also challenging. At times, it has been frus- of this sonar is being verified with the high end SEN- trating to the Navy operators that procedures and inter- SOTEK SAS sonar, which started sea trials in early 2005. faces change several times. Even though a change is for the A principle of early testing of new developments at sea better, it can take time for users to adjust to the new situ- has been followed. As a consequence, many potential ation, and it may hamper the desired "second nature" design flaws have been caught early. The close participa- interaction. As a rule however, we find that the positive tion of the end customer in the development process has aspects of the development process more than compen- resulted in a common understanding of the issues and sates for this. An example of the difficulties of testing their relative priorities. autonomous systems in real-world environments is the dangers imposed by fishing vessels. During the Joint The preceding was authored by Per Espen Hagen and Nils Winter 04 exercise, a HUGIN mission had to be inter- Størkersen, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment rupted because a trawler was headed straight for the AUV (FFI); Bjørn-Erik Marthinsen, Royal Norwegian Navy - inside a military exercise area. The trawler ignored hails Mine Warfare Flotilla; Geir Sten, Norwegian Defence and warning flares from KNM Karmøy, HUGIN's moth- Logistics Organization; and Karstein Vestgård, Kongsberg er ship. Such a situation would obviously not occur if the Maritime AS.

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Hafmynd (Gavia) Putting The Pieces Together

By Kate Elizabeth Queram rated to 2,000 m — are worthy of the name. Hafmynd, based in Reykjavik, Iceland, develops and For all its fanfare, the premise of the Gavia Northern manufactures underwater technologies. Originally Diver is relatively simple. Customers purchase the base formed as a result of a collaboration with the University of model of the AUV, which consists of Iceland in order to study seafloor four major parts: a nose cone, a bat- impacts due to fishing, the company tery module, a command/control is now best known for its Gavia module, and a propulsion module. Northern Diver Autonomous The base model is a fully functional Underwater Vehicle (AUV). unit, but can be tailored for specific "The name Gavia was suggested to missions by adding or taking away us by Professor Jorundur Svavarsson sensors and modules. For example, at the University of Iceland," said a standard configuration for a scien- Arnar Steingrimsson, Marketing tific mission adds to the base model: Manager. "Gavia is short for Gavia an optical backscatter sensor, a side Immer, which is the Latin name for scan sonar unit, a nose cone camera, a bird that is local to Iceland and and an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Photo C r edit: Kevin Du ose parts of North America. The bird is "Gavia is short for Gavia Immer, which is Current Profiler). referred to as "the great northern the Latin name for a bird that is local to According to the company, Gavia is diver" for its diving skills, which are Iceland and parts of North America. The unique in its user-friendly modular remarkable," suggesting that the div- bird is referred to as "the great northern design; meaning it can be taken apart ing capabilities of the AUV - which diver" for its diving skills, which are remarkable" and reconfigured to perform a range weighs a scant 150 lbs. and is depth- — Arnar Steingrimsson of tasks - all by hand. Modules are

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fitted together by the user, using Gavia's patented oceanographic surveys. "The modularity of the Gavia QuickLock system. "Other companies offer modular vehicle and the ability of the NRC to develop custom pay- designs, but ours is the only one that is put together by the load modules is primarily why it was selected by the user," said Steingrimsson. "With all others, the reconfigu- NRC," said Steingrimsson. Finally, the Department of ration must be done at the factory." Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Hafmynd's vision specifically incorporates this plug- Columbia will use the Gavia AUV to perform survey and and-play technology; hinging on the belief that AUVs will sampling operations in the deepwater lakes located in play a major role in the future research, monitoring and British Columbia, Canada. The University's Gavia vehicle surveying of the underwater world. Hafmynd believes the is a 500 m rated vehicle outfitted with a suite of scientific modular design of Gavia will allow previously inaccessible sensors, including the SeaBird SBE 49 FastCAT regions of the ocean to now be visible and open to explo- Conductivity Temperature Depth recorder (CTD), ration. The company foresees success for the AUV, due to Imagenex Ltd. dual-frequency side scan sonar, and a the many advantages which include; ease of transport, Wetlabs ECO-BB3 Optical Backscatter sensor. reduced cost and downtime, and upgradability. Underwater navigation and two-way acoustic communi- The Gavia Northern Diver is the product of extensive cation are provided by a Long Base-Line (LBL) system research and development, which began in mid-1996, from LinkQuest Ltd. In addition to its commercial suc- with the first prototypes available in early 2003. cess, the Gavia procured real-world experience earlier this "Development was financed by a combination of funds fall, when a small boat sank just outside of its home base from the University of Iceland, The Icelandic technology of Reykjavik. To assist with the search-and-rescue opera- development fund, and private shareholders," said tion the Gavia AUV was pressed into service. The compa- Steingrimsson, adding that "The exact figures for the cost ny deployed a vehicle equipped with a side scan sonar and are hard to pin down and of the course the development a DVL-aided Inertial Navigation System, Roughly two is never really finished, is it!" hours after deployment, the AUV had covered a 150,000 "The pricing of the Gavia is in line with that of other square meter search area. Icelandic Coast Guard divers small AUVs," said Steingrimsson. To date, three Gavia then used the side scan sonar images taken from the Gavia AUVs have been shipped, each configured for their own to limit their search areas to regions containing possible specific missions. The first went to the Space and U.S. targets; thus allowing for a more thorough search in a Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR), in San Diego, smaller amount of time and ultimately leading the divers Calif., a branch of the US Navy. This Gavia vehicle, to within arm's reach of thesunken boat. Hafmynd is intended for military use, is configured for Mine Counter extremely optimistic about the future for the Gavia vehi- Measures (MCM) with a dual frequency sonar, camera cle. Said Steingrimsson, "Gavia is well-suited for a variety and strobe, and a DVL aided Inertial Navigation System of missions and is a platform that a user can readily with GPS, designed for accurate underwater positioning. upgrade to meet requirements as they arise." Therefore, It also features a high-speed wireless LAN; underwater customers who purchase the Gavia today can continue its acoustic link, and dual-battery module operation. use for years to come by changing only small parts of the The second Gavia was ordered by the Canadian system, rather than buying an entire new one. "Hafmynd National Research Council (NRC) to fulfill their require- is working with many sensor manufacturers to integrate ment for a multi-mission-capable AUV. The primary mis- new sensors as they become available," Said Chris Roper, sion of the vehicle here is to maneuver on the inside of North American marketing and sales agent for Gavia, "the potable water pipes and conduct inspections of the line for development of Gavia was a turning point for the compa- possible damage using sonar and customer-developed pay- ny, and we have a number of pending orders." load modules. The secondary use for the vehicle is for

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ROVer's Eye ROVer's Eye Main GUI in real-time, showing the ROV in a two-up view of Sydney Harbor, using Klein 5500 sidescan sonar and Seabat 8101. ROVer's Eye provides a high-fidelity of the physical relationship between the ocean bottom derived from multibeam sonar and a texture image that is overlaid upon the ocean bottom structure, typically derived from sidescan sonar; and a perspective-accurate, properly scaled model of a target vehicle. The system enhances the situational awareness of the ocean environment for mission targets and obstacle avoidance and provides a method to plan missions and paths for vehicle navigation. ROVer's Eye functions in low light or poor water clarity environments and may be used in a variety of applications including terrain visualization, search and recovery, route surveys, oil field inspection and general seabed mapping. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 27

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Multibeam Bathymetry and swiftly and independently to mine threats Acoustic Imagery without impacting other warfare missions. Fugro Pelagos, Inc. has made advances in Launched and controlled remotely from the collection and processing of high-reso- forward-deployed ships, RMS gives Carrier lution acoustic bathymetry and imagery and Expeditionary Strike Groups an organ- from Multibeam Echosounder Systems. ic, real-time, over-the-horizon mine recon- Benefits of use include improved quality naissance capability. The unmanned, semi- from Multibeam Acoustic Imagery (higher submersible RMV tows a Variable Depth signal-to-noise ratio and higher resolution); Sensor to detect, localize, classify and iden- precise geo-referencing of image pixels; and tify moored and bottom mines. Other key Multibeam interactive web delivery of data and images. elements of the system include line-of-sight Bathymetry Vessel motion is applied to improve geo- and over-the-horizon real-time data links, a encoding, and backscatter data is refracted, shipboard launch and recovery subsystem; with backscatter from bad soundings dis- and a software segment, which integrates carded completely. The system features AN/WLD-1(V)1 into the ship's AN/SQQ- improved sounding accuracy and fully 89(V)15 Undersea Warfare Combat implemented Applanix TrueHeave. System. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 27 Click No. 29

Triton Hydrographic Bundle FrogEye Amphibious Camera Triton Hydrographic Triton's Hydrographic Bundle is an inte- FrogEye FC-2 is a second generation grated suite of software designed for all amphibious camera for applications in sci- phases of multibeam surveys and can be ence, military and industry. The model FC- used for survey planning, data acquisition, 2 is designed specifically for long-standoff real-time processing and off-line data reconnaissance and surveillance applica- analysis. The system's components include tions. Features include applications for data acquisition, sonar • Rugged, amphibious design, useable AN/WLD-1 Remote interface, real-time data processing, GIS for underwater and on land. Minehunting • Long-standoff shore reconnaissance System processed data display, and survey planning/control. The modularity of the soft- from sea and diver insertion supported by ware enables expansion as survey capabili- free-flooded telephoto lens. ties grow. The system features include • Three night vision modes including accurate logging of all data associated with on-demand night vision without an inten- a multibeam system (including beam sifier tube, and dual-stage night vision for amplitude, backscatter, etc), real-time cor- extreme low light conditions. rection and filtering of bathymetry and line • Multi-spectral imaging in NIR and UV planning and control during survey. regions defeats camouflage. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & • High frame-rate, high-resolution Click No. 28 motion imagery captures fleeting targets and minimizes operator exposure. AN/WLD-1 Remote • Remote and autonomous operating FrogEye Minehunting System modes minimize manpower requirements Lockheed Martin's AN/WLD 1(V) for target surveillance. Remote Minehunting System (RMS) is Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 30 designed to allow combatants to react 48 MTR November 2005 MTR#3 (49-64).qxd 11/14/2005 11:14 AM Page 49

people & companies Obituary: Andreas B. Rechnitzer (1924-2005)

Andreas "Andy" Rechnitzer passed away August 22, 2005 at Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa, Calif., after a sud- den illness. Andy was a student of Scripps Professor Dr. Carl Hubbs. In 1955, Hubbs and Rechnitzer discov- ered and identified the striped yellow fish that now serves as the official logo of Scripps' Birch Aquarium (Chaetodon falcifer). While at Scripps, then part of UCLA, Andy, Connie Limbaugh, and Jim Stewart developed the first SCUBA diver training program for ocean scientists, which included such innovations as Dr. Andreas Rechnitzer (3rd from left) appears in the photo with Larry ditch-and-don, buddy breathing, and Shoemaker, Don Walsh, and Jacques Piccard aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste, the buddy system. That SCUBA following the historic dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in January training program is the basis of all 1960. (Photo: U.S. Navy) major sport diving certification pro- in the Mariana Trench, the deepest Ocean Institute (Dana Point, Calif.), grams in the world today, including ocean depth. The success kick-start- which continues to collaborate with PADI and NAUI. Upon graduation ed deep submergence development in Scripps and other scientists as an from SIO, Andy considered staying at the U.S., and many businesses in San informal center of marine education Scripps, but Roger Revelle told him Diego. Rechnitzer was awarded the today. "A great man passed my way, to head out into the world. Later, Navy Department Distinguished and I shall miss him", said former Andy recalled, "It was the best advice Civilian Service Award by President Trieste pilot Tony Dunn. Andy was a he could have given me." As a mem- Dwight Eisenhower. He then led the warm and outgoing friend to so ber of the U.S. Navy-ONR development of the Beaver IV diver many. Over the years, National Evaluation team, Rechnitzer was LILO submersible at Rockwell Geographic Society photographer instrumental in negotiating the pur- International. Andy then joined the Ralph White would comically refer to chase of the deep diving bathyscaphe, scientific staff of the Chief of Naval himself as Andy's illegitimate son. I Trieste, from Swiss physicist Auguste Operations and Oceanographer of suppose, in hindsight, Andy did fos- Piccard. Rechnitzer, along with the Navy from 1970-1984. He later ter a sense of kinship with many by Scripps alumni, Art Maxwell, Scripps joined SAIC as Senior Scientist from offering encouragement and express- researcher Willard Bascom, and 1985-1998. ing pride, especially to those younger, Captain Charles Bishop, USN, (later In 2002, the History Channel aired as a good father might. A memorial with MPL), had Trieste brought from the special "The Deepest Dive," co- service at Scripps Institution of Italy to San Diego's Naval Electronics produced by Andy and Ed Cargile, Oceanography is being planned, and Lab (NEL), on Point Loma. recounting the obstacles and mile- will be announced in the SoCal Rechnitzer, a civilian scientist, was stones on the way to the bottom of eNews. made Scientist-in-Charge of Project the sea. Andy was also an early advo- NEKTON. On January 23, 1960, cate of K-12 outreach, authoring seg- (Bibliographic material from the Trieste dove with pilot Don Walsh ments of books on hands-on marine Scripps Institution Archives. Personal and observer Jacques Piccard to science for young students. He reflections by Kevin Hardy, 35,800-ft. into the Challenger Deep founded and was first president of the [email protected]) www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 49 MTR#3 (49-64).qxd 11/14/2005 11:14 AM Page 50

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Webb Honored Manchester University in England. Society of America. Each year it is With his wife, Shirley, he moved to presented to distinguished divers in Falmouth in 1962 to join the Woods the categories of arts, science, Hole Oceanographic Institution sports/education and distinguished (WHOI). Webb retired from service. Past winners of the NOGI WHOI in 1982 as a Senior Research Award include diving luminaries Specialist. Jacques Cousteau, Robert Ballard and During his career he authored or Sylvia Earle, as well as Scripps diving co-authored 45 scientific publications officer emeritus, James R. Stewart. and participated in more than 50 A biological oceanographer in the research cruises. In 1988, Webb was a Integrative Oceanography Division at co-recipient of the Henry Bryant Scripps, Dayton's research focuses on Bigelow Award in Oceanography, coastal and estuarine habitats, includ- Photo credit: Clayton Jones, Webb Research Corporation awarded by WHOI, in recognition of ing seafloor (benthic) and kelp com- Douglas C. Webb, of Webb development of SOFAR, a technolo- munities, as well as global fisheries. Research Corporation (Falmouth, gy used to map deep ocean currents. He studies California kelp communi- Mass.) received two awards honoring Webb founded Webb Research ties, Antarctic benthic communities his contributions to ocean research Corporation (WRC) in 1982. He and the impacts of overfishing on technology. During the MTS/IEEE remains active in managing the com- marine ecosystems. (Marine Technology Society/Institute pany, which employs 22 and is locat- of Electrical and Electronic ed in the Falmouth Technology Park. Yoder to WHOI Post Engineers) Oceans 2005 conference WRC develops and manufactures James Yoder, a professor of oceanog- in Washington, D.C., Webb received specialized instruments used in ocean raphy and former associate dean at the IEEE Oceanic Engineering research, and serves customers in 17 the University of Rhode Island Society's 2005 Distinguished nations. Graduate School of Oceanography, Technical Achievement Award. The has been chosen Vice President for award states "Through his technical Scripps Marine Ecologist Academic Programs and Dean at the innovation, from drifting floats to Honored Woods Hole Oceanographic underwater gliders, Mr. Webb is Paul Dayton, professor of oceanog- Institution (WHOI). Yoder was changing the way that we observe the raphy at Scripps Institution of elected at the Board of Trustees meet- oceans." Oceanography, University of ing at the Institution October 14 and The second honor came at Rutgers California, San Diego, has been will assume his new duties November University Coastal Ocean selected as winner of the 2004 NOGI 28. Observation Lab in New Brunswick, Award, science category, by the A biological oceanographer, Yoder is N.J. A classroom at the facility was Academy of Underwater Arts and well known in the oceanographic named the Webb Room in recogni- Sciences (AUAS). research community, having served as tion of "a lifetime of achievement The NOGI (New Orleans Grand a researcher, professor and Director of providing future generations with Isle) Award dates back to the 1950s, the Division of Ocean Sciences at the new tools to explore and understand when it was initially presented to National Science Foundation in the world's oceans." world-class spearfishing champions. Washington, DC. Webb, who was born in Canada in In the 1960s, the award began to be He has worked at NASA headquar- 1929, received his Masters degree in presented to top achievers in the ters, been a member of numerous electrical engineering in 1954 from underwater world by the Underwater national and international commit-

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tees and panels on oceanographic Holstein, Atlantis, Mad Dog, and research, taught graduate and under- Thunder Horse projects. graduate courses in oceanography at URI, and advised graduate students Tyco Signs Contracts on their master's and Ph.D. theses. Tyco Telecommunications recently Yoder will be responsible for the debuted its SEAHORSE Asia Pacific Institution's formal and informal marine maintenance service, and education programs and activities, announced the award by Asia including the postdoctoral program, Netcom of a long-term maintenance the graduate program, undergraduate contract for the entire EAC cable sys- summer programs, and K-12 activi- Garry Everett tem. Asia Netcom awarded Tyco a ties. James Yoder will succeed John contract for the marine maintenance Farrington, who is retiring after serv- of its entire EAC cable system span- ing as Vice President for Academic Schilling headquarters in Davis, ning 19,500 km. Tyco will employ its Programs and Dean for 15 years. California. SEAHORSE Asia Pacific service, a Farrington joined the Institution in "Garry brings almost two decades two cableship service featuring 1971 as a postdoctoral investigator of experience in diverse areas of the Reliance Class vessels. and subsequently held successive offshore oil/gas and telecommunica- Also, Transoceanic Cable Ship positions in the Marine Chemistry tion industries," said Schilling Company, Inc. (TCSC), a subsidiary and Geochemistry Department for Robotics CEO Tyler Schilling. "His of Tyco Telecommunications (US) 17 years, serving simultaneously for offshore experience gives him an Inc., signed a two-year contract six of those years as Director of the excellent perspective on ROV design extension with the 48 member com- WHOI Coastal Research Center. In and manufacture, and will enhance panies that comprise the consortium 1988 Farrington was appointed our ability to produce reliable, cost- of the Atlantic Cable Maintenance Michael P. Walsh Professor and effective vehicle systems." Schilling and Repair Agreement (ACMA). Director of the Environmental continues, "We are rapidly expanding The extension adds two years to the Sciences Program at the University of into new segments of the ROV mar- contract with TCSC. Under its Massachusetts, Boston, serving in ket, and Garry's proven ability to terms, TCSC utilizes three cable ships that capacity until his present manage resources for complex pro- and ROVs for the maintenance and appointment at WHOI in 1990. duction programs will be invaluable. repair of ACMA member submarine We feel fortunate that we can contin- cables in the Atlantic and Caribbean Everett Joins Schilling ue to add top-level industry experts oceans. Robotics such as Garry since this is a key Schilling Robotics said that indus- ingredient in our sustained growth." Aker Kvaerner Wins try-veteran Garry Everett has joined Before joining Schilling, Everett Subsea Umbilical the company as director of program held various positions in his 18 years Contract management. with Sonsub, including ROV pilot Aker Kvaerner Subsea won a con- Using his experience in setting up technician, procurement manager, tract for supply and manufacturing of and managing production for project engineer, project manager, steel tube umbilicals from Technip Sonsub's Innovator ROV build pro- and production manager. Offshore Norge a.s for the operator gram, Everett will initially focus on Most recently, he was responsible Hydro's development Fram Øst and the build program for the ultraheavy- for the ROVs and tooling designed Vilje Subsea Project in the Norwegian duty Schilling UHD ROV at and built for BP's deepwater Continental Shelf.

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The contract value for both projects the North Sea and will be tied back to NOAA ship Hi'Ialaka, Ka'Imimoana is approximately $15.6 million. the Alvheim production facility 19 (Honolulu, HI) and the Rainier Aker Kvaerner Subsea will deliver km away. Aker Kverner Susbea will (Seattle, WA). engineering, procurement and con- supply engineering and tie-in equip- struction of steel tube umbilicals and ment for the two wells development. Shell Opens Technical associated equipments. The delivery of the hardware is Learning Facility The Fram Øst umbilical, which is a February 2006 with installation and Shell International Exploration & tie-back to the Troll C platform, is service support July 2006. Production (Shell) opened a technical approximately 20 km in lengths learning center in its new internation- including both dynamic and static Perry Slingsby Systems al headquarters in Rijswijk, the cross section. For Subsea 7 Netherlands. The site will be the pri- The Vilje umbilical is a static Perry Slingsby Systems (PSS) said mary venue for Exploration & umbilical and will be tied-back to the that Subsea 7 purchased five Heavy Production (EP) technical training, riser base at the Marathon's Alvheim Lift Tether Management Systems and is designed to accelerate the tech- FPSO. (TMS) to interface with their latest nical development of staff. fleet of Hercules ROV systems, which Subsea Tie-in and are currently in build. PSS will pro- JDR Cable Appoints Connection Contract vide Subsea 7 Ltd. with its latest Gahm Aker Kvaerner Subsea has been design of high performance heavy lift Paul T. Gahm has been appointed awarded a contract for supply of tie- capacity TMS, the Enhanced Type III Executive Vice President, Sales & in and connection system for Hydro's system. Marketing, worldwide. Formerly Fram Øst and Vilje Field The system features an extended Sales & Marketing Manager for Development in the North Sea tether length capacity; a control sys- Oceaneering Multiflex, Gahm is a through Technip Norge AS. The total tem providing proportionally con- 30-year veteran in the offshore oil & contract value for the two projects are trolled tether pay-in and pay-out gas industry, with emphasis in subsea approximately $3.5 million. modes, and programmable automatic umbilical markets in North America, The Fram Øst field is located in line speed/pull routines for optimized the North Sea and Far East/Asia Block 35/11 and will be tied back to and safer ROV/TMS docking under Pacific regions. the Troll C platform. unfavorable heave conditions subsea. The Fram Øst scope of supply is Lockheed-Martin engineering, hardware supply of flow- TSS Equipment for Wins Contract line termination heads, clamp con- NOAA Ships Lockheed-Martin Services Inc. won nectors, hubs, porch structures and TSS (International) Ltd. a $13,305,476 indefinite- various caps. announced multiple sales of the delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost- In addition to the hardware equip- Meridian Standard Gyrocompass to plus-incentive fee, award term, per- ment, rental of tools and hire in off- the NOAA Marine Operations formance based contract to provide shore service personnel from our serv- Center Pacific (Seattle, WA). TSS services for the operation of the ice group will be provided. Delivery (International) Ltd. specializes in the Towed Array Depot to include proof the hardware equipment is manufacturing of motion sensors, duction, repair, refurbishment, instal- February 2006 with offshore service gyrocompasses, pipe and cable track- lation, and testing of towed array and support July 2006. ers, and steering control systems. sonar systems and the associated engi- The Vilje field, PL036, is located in The systems will be used on the neering, technical and logistics sup-

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port services. also includes several other Remote Jim Swift, a research oceanographer The contract includes four one-year Sensing technologies. The Indefinite at UCSD's Scripps Institution of option periods and three award term Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract Oceanography, participated in the years which, if exercised, would bring is for three-years, and not-to-exceed voyage as leader of a five-person team the cumulative value of the contract $12 million. on board Oden that analyzed ocean to $116,512,788. To more effectively support this conditions in an effort to better Work will be performed in Norfolk, contract and FPI's existing Airborne understand the Arctic's role in the Va. (98 percent) and Pearl Harbor, Hydrographic LIDAR support con- earth's ocean and climate system. Hawaii (2 percent) and is expected to tract with the U.S Navy's Naval Other scientists on board Oden and be completed by September 2006 Oceanographic Office (NAVO), the Healy hailed from Sweden, Finland, (September 2013 with options and company has opened a permanent Canada, Germany, Norway and term years). Contract funds will not office in Kiln, Miss., at the Stennis Denmark. expire at the end of the current fiscal International Airport. According to Swift, part of the rea- year. son the Canada Basin surface crossing The Space and Naval Warfare Scripps Scientists could be attempted and achieved at Systems Center, Charleston, S.C., is Participate in First this time is because the ice cover over the contracting agency activity. Surface Vessel Voyage much of the Arctic Ocean has Two ships taking part in a recently thinned in recent decades, opening Perry Slingsby Systems, completed research voyage investigat- the door to surface ships. However, Geoconsult Sign Contract ing the oceanography, marine geolo- the two vessels still encountered areas Geoconsult AS recently purchased gy, geophysics and ice cover of the of extremely thick ice, forcing the two 3,000 m Triton XLS 125 hp sys- Arctic Ocean have become the first ships to work in tandem to cut tems from Perry Slingsby Systems. surface vessels to traverse the Canada through the ice and forge a passage to Both systems will be permanently Basin; the ice-covered sea between the North Pole. installed on one of Geoconsults new Alaska and the North Pole. Strategic route planning using satel- vessels during the first quarter of The Swedish vessel Oden and the lite ice images and frequent helicopter 2006. U.S. Coast Guard's Healy, both ice- ice reconnaissance aided the naviga- breaking vessels outfitted for oceano- tion. FPI Wins 3-Year Contract graphic research, completed the his- Swift's investigations aboard Oden, research funded by the U.S. National Fugro Pelagos, Inc. (FPI) negotiated toric south-to-north trek in Science Foundation Office of Polar a contract with the U.S. Army Corps September as part of a recently con- Programs, involved examinations of of Engineers (USACE), Mobile cluded expedition to explore the ocean properties to help evaluate District to provide surveying and marine environment in this unknown recent changes in ocean climate and mapping services in support of the region. global change studies. Joint Airborne LIDAR Bathymetry Although the same area had been Swift and his team measured the Technical Center of Expertise crossed by submarines, the central seawater's temperature, salinity and (JALBTCX) Regional Coastal Arctic Ocean had been Earth's least chemical characteristics. Ultimately, Mapping and Charting Program, as explored ocean area by surface ships the new data will aid assessments of well as other USACE programs. The due to its heavy concentration of climate change and be used to contract will primarily employ floating sea ice, which in some areas improve and test scientific models Airborne Hydrographic LIDAR, but spans more than 10 ft. thick. that describe the climate system.

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Nexans has developed a terrain dredger/sub-sea intervention system called the Spider. The Spider com- bines powered tracks with an articulated walking leg system, enabling it to function in uneven sub-sea terrain with up to 35 degrees slope. It is built to work in water depths of approxi- are supplied through an umbilical. of the seabed, which is prepared by mately 1,000 m. The Spider's move- During deployment, the operator the onboard survey operator and ments are controlled by operators follows the Spider's movements via loaded into the Spider's data system located aboard a support vessel, it is underwater cameras. can provide an alternative view of the launched via a specialized Launch & When disturbed sea bed material environment. Recovery System (LARS). Power and reduces visibility. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt signals between the vessel and Spider Use of a virtual 3D computer image & Click No. 1

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CTG Presents Nv-Shuttle A new, completely sealed and water- Chelsea Technologies Group proof surface control unit for ROV (CTG) delivered an instrumented operations has been developed by towed undulating oceanographic The offshore sea trial using the Seaeye. The unit is rated to the inter- recorder, N?-Shuttle, to the Marine Alistar 3000 Inspection AUV was national standard IP68, and is and Coastal Management Group of designed by BP to evaluate the tech- designed to withstand emersion to nology. It will be located in the com- one meter. Designed for use with pany's deepwater King Field in the their Seaeye Falcon ROV, the unit's Gulf of Mexico and will comprise: special sealing arrangements and slip- • Passive pipeline inspection: ring hinge between base and lid, Alistar 3000 will locate and follow a means it is also fully protected against pipeline at various altitudes above the dust ingress in any hazardous shore- pipeline while recording video, sonar based environment. data and actual flowline position, Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt • Active pipeline inspection: & Click No. 9 Alistar 3000, using on-board sensors that can automatically detect anodes Schilling Debuts Titan 4 the Department of Environment and or anomalies while tracking the flow- The newest model of Schilling Tourism, Cape Town, South Africa to line, will modify its mission to carry Robotics' Titan manipulator series, be utilized within their monitoring out closer General Visual Inspection the Titan 4, is designed to be a programs in the Benguela system. (GVI) of the detected features, lighter- The Nv-Shuttle will first be used on • Structure inspection: Alistar weight, sim- the RV Africana and the RV Algoa to 3000 will follow the flowline to a plified system. complement the routine St Helena pipeline end structure and will The Titan 4 Bay and SARP monitoring lines. The process in real time, sensor informa- design relo- monitoring at fixed locations will be tion to maneuver around the struc- cates the slave complemented by either towing con- ture to perform a GVI. arm electron- tinuously back along the monitoring Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt ics from a sep- line or by towing between stations & Click No. 12

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AGI Clinometers Monitor Tsunami Prediction Modules Position The National Data Buoy Center are relayed via satellite to ground sta- (NDBC) installed 50 tilt monitors tions, which demodulate the signals from Applied Geomechanics Inc. for immediate dissemination to (AGI) of Santa Cruz, Calif. The NOAA's Tsunami Warning Centers Model 900-45 clinometers are and NDBC. In their standard moni- designed to read the orientation of toring mode, the BPRs report 15- seafloor water-pressure recorders for minute average values of sea surface early detection of tsunamis in the height each hour. When the internal open ocean. NDBC has deployed software identifies a possible tsunami bottom pressure recorders (BPRs) event, 15-second values are transmit- paired with moored surface buoys in ted during the first few minutes, fol- numerous locations worldwide. The Assessment and Reporting of lowed by 1-minute averages. If no seafloor instrument/acoustics package Tsunamis (DART) project, a compo- further events are detected, after four to which each buoy is tethered allows nent of the U.S. National Tsunami hours the system returns to standard early identification and real-time Hazard Mitigation Program. mode. monitoring of developing tsunamis. Data transmitted from a BPR to its Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt This effort is the Deep Ocean companion buoy by an acoustic link & Click No. 13

TRIAXYS Directional Processor. Wave and sea surface tem- autonomous Wave Buoy perature data are processed and stand-alone sys- TRIAXYS Directional Wave Buoy logged on the buoy and then trans- tem. VPS is a precision instrument designed to mitted via VHF, cell or satellite winches are be an economical buoy for accurate telemetry to a base station hosting sized and rated measurement of directional waves. AXYS' WaveView software which for deploy- The buoy is solar powered and easy to allows for full presentation and ment in handle during deployment, as it can archiving of data along with diagnos- coastal be rolled off a ship deck without con- tic utilities. regions in cern of sensor damage due to spin- Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt water ning. The TRIAXYS sensor unit is & Click No. 14 depths comprised of three accelerometers, down to 300 m, or may be installed three rate gyros, a fluxgate compass InterOcean Systems on moored subsurface buoyancy plat- and the proprietary TRIAXYS Underwater Winches forms in deep water applications. InterOcean's underwater winches They are fully automated and feature are designed for use in any vertical stainless steel construction, underwa- profiling application. They are avail- ter mateable connectors, pressure able separately or as part of a com- compensated (oil-filled) components, plete Vertical Profiling System (VPS). premium slip ring assemblies, regulat- These winches are offered in a range ed power systems, and serial interface of sizes with a variety of capabilities, for diagnostic, control, and command for integration within an underwater functions. ocean observatory or as an Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 15 www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 57 MTR#3 (49-64).qxd 11/14/2005 11:19 AM Page 58

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Autonomous Vertical a serial interface to a central PC with Profiling Systems optional touch-screen display. The InterOcean's Vertical Profiling program has the ability to log and System (VPS) autonomously collects summarize data for each winch and and telemeters high resolution time- cast, replay the time history plot for series vertical profile data, providing a any parameter from past casts on a complete spectrum of oceanographic second screen, calibrate winch ten- parameters in real-time. Each unit sion and count sensors directly from collects detailed vertical profiles for the central computer, and allow oper- the target depth range on a regular ators to customize the display to their automated cycle, providing time- specific requirements. series data sets for long-term deploy- designed for surveys in shallow water, Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt ments. Each VPS consists of four with land/water interface, hazardous & Click No. 18 major subsystems: winch system, areas, and areas requiring rapid envi- S4VP-3 sensor platform, subsurface ronmental assessment. It features GAVIA - The Great buoy with system controller, and bot- area coverage rates as high as 70 sq. Northern Diver tom mounting system. km/hr and collects data with a high- accuracy laser, mounted in the aircraft floor. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 17

WinchDAC Winch Monitoring and Data Logging System The GAVIA autonomous underwa- The WinchDAC monitoring sys- ter vehicle (AUV) is a fully modular, tem displays line tension, payout, and small torpedo shaped vehicle capable speed for multi-winch installations of diving to 2,000 m. It is an through a central operator computer autonomous system in a small pack- interface. Signals from count and age that can be configured for a wide force sensors mounted on each winch range of research, surveying or moni- Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt are captured and converted into engi- toring tasks. The system features fully & Click No. 16 neering units by an LCI processor, shrouded propeller and control sur- and the resulting data moves through faces, over-the-horizon operation and SHOALS-1000T servicing, expandable control soft- SHOALS-1000T is a complete air- ware and chart-based graphical mis- borne laser bathymetry survey instru- sion planning. Benefits of modulari- ment for shallow water and coastal ty are numerous and include rapid regions. Coupled with a fully inte- battery replacement, reduced mainte- grated flight planning and data pro- nance cost and customization cessing software subsystem, options. SHOALS-1000T is a total coastal Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt survey management solution, & Click No. 19

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Saft Lithium Batteries temperature accuracies of ±0.1ºC. LSX Series Temperature profiles and computed sound velocity data obtained by the XBT are used by Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operators to identify the impact of temperature on sonar propagation and acoustic range prediction. The XBT also provides a W of 12 and 24 VDC. The system means of collecting temperature data utilizes SDSL technology to provide for oceanographic and geophysical adaptive data rates based on wire studies. It is available in air-launched length, noise, etc. All data is trans- and sub-launched configurations. ferred over a single pair of twisted Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt wires. The onboard Acrobat control The LSX Series of lithium batteries & Click No. 21 station has a second SDSL and from Saft features corrosion-proof Ethernet switch. One or more com- containers and an operating range of Low Drag ADCP Buoy puters can plug directly into the -60º C to 85º F. The batteries are switch to become part of the Acrobat non-restricted for transport and have network. a low self-discharge rate (less than 2% Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 23 after one year of storage at 20ºC) and an operating voltage greater than 3V. Sutron's Main Tide The batteries are suited for a range of applications; including utility meter- Station ing, radio communication, emer- The Flotation Technologies Sutron worked closely with gency location buoys, memory back- StableMoor is designed to reduce NOAA's National Ocean Survey to up, real time clocks, and night vision. drag and increase mooring stability in develop the Main Tide Station, which Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt extreme flow regimes. With a theo- is designed to detect an array of & Click No. 20 retical drag coefficient of 0.3, events. It is built to survive in harsh, StableMoor is a solid syntactic foam, coastal environments, and to support Expendable torpedo-shaped buoy featuring a new a variety of water level monitoring Bathythermograph (XBT) stainless steel mooring swivel to pro- and weather instruments. The system The XBT contains a precision ther- vide smooth transitions to changes in provides pre-programmed support for mistor located in the nose of the current direction. all NOS-required tidal data process- probe. Changes in water temperature Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt ing, including: six minute GOES self- & Click No. 22 are recorded timed transmissions, one-hour by changes in GOES self-timed data transmissions, Ethernet Data & Power the resistance DQAP (Outlier elimination) water of the ther- Module (EDPM-4) level averaging, redundant data trans- mistor as the The Ethernet Data & Power missions, and tsunami and storm XBT falls Module (EDPM-4) allows the user to surge data processing and transmis- through the see all the sensor data from the sion. water. It is Acrobat in real time, and can also Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt capable of power payloads, providing up to 150 & Click No. 24

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MECHANICAL ENGINEER Jan van Smirren of commercial oceanographic measurement, in ground effect hovercrafts and vessels. Job Location: India, mumbai Fugro GEOS Inc. assessment and consulting services, with Herve Jaubert ship repairing tasks; 6100 Hillcroft offices in the US, UK, Norway, Malaysia, UAE Exomos 1.hull repairing jobs-steel renewal and refitting Houston, TX 77081 and Singapore. The Company is part of the jebel Ali Free zone works. USA multi-national Fugro Group that provides a Dubai, Dubai 18681 2.rotary machinery works-overhauling and Phone: 713-346-3611 complete range of integrated geotechnical, United Arab Emirates installation Email: [email protected] environmental, survey and positioning servic- Phone: 971 488 35222 3.engine overhauling works-six cylinder,eight WEB: http://www.geos.com es world-wide. To meet the demands of our Fax: 971 488 35228 cylinder, twele cylinder engine such as rapid market expansion throughout the Email: [email protected] dihatsu engine, bergine diesel engine, Americas, we are seeking to employ the fol- WEB: http://www.exomos.com nohab diesel engine. OCEANOGRAPHIC ENGINEER lowing high caliber staff members to be 4.gear box overhauling works and installation Job Location: USA, TX Houston based in Houston: such as ulstein propeller gear box. Fugro GEOS is the world's foremost provider OCEANOGRAPHER - CONSULTANCY DIVISION CHIEF MECHANICAL ENGINEER A.RAJ of commercial oceanographic measurement, The chosen individual will be a core member Job Location: USA, WA Redmond INDUS MARINE PVT. LTD assessment and consulting services, with of our consultancy team that has an excellent Sound Ocean Systems, Inc. (SOSI) is a lead- G-21, ROOM NO-11, offices in the US, UK, Norway, Malaysia, UAE reputation for the provision of meteorological ing and innovative manufacturer of special- ML CAMP, MATUNGA-POST, MUMBAI and Singapore. The Company is part of the and oceanographic consultancy. The role will ized marine equipment and related engineer- MUMBAI, SD multi-national Fugro Group that provides a involve a number of key activities including: ing and design services. Our hardware prod- Australia complete range of integrated geotechnical, • The preparation of operational and design ucts range from shipboard equipment such Phone: 022-24096392 environmental, survey and positioning servic- criteria reports for the Gulf of Mexico and as winches and handling systems, in-water Email: [email protected] es world-wide. To meet the demands of our worldwide. systems such as towed bodies, oceanograph- rapid market expansion throughout the • Physical oceanographic and meteorological ic data buoys and bottom platforms, to Americas, we are seeking to employ the fol- data processing, analysis and report writ- marine mining and other deep water systems OCEANOGRAPHIC FIELD TECHNICIAN lowing high caliber staff members to be ing. capable of operating in 6,000 meters of • Project management. Job Location: USA, TX Houston based in Houston: water. Our engineering services related prod- The ideal candidates will demonstrate the fol- Fugro GEOS is the world's foremost provider OCEANOGRAPHIC ENGINEER ucts include feasibility studies, conceptual lowing attributes: of commercial oceanographic measurement, The chosen individual will be a core member design, detail design, engineering and project • Educated in marine science with assessment and consulting services, with of our operational team that has an excellent management services. We have an immedi- interest/experience in all aspects of physi- offices in the US, UK, Norway, Malaysia, UAE reputation for the provision of reliable and ate opening for an experienced chief mechan- cal oceanographic data analysis. and Singapore. The Company is part of the accurate oceanographic systems. The role ical engineer. • Familiar with metocean criteria preparation. multi-national Fugro Group that provides a will involve a number of key activities includ- This is an excellent opportunity for an individ- • Highly resourceful and PC literate with complete range of integrated geotechnical, ing: ual with the right skills. We are looking for strong problem solving instincts and close environmental, survey and positioning servic- • The design and specifications of metocean someone with ten or more years experience attention to detail. es world-wide. To meet the demands of our data acquisition systems, including custom in the engineering and design development, • Experienced in use of Matlab rapid market expansion throughout the systems integration. manufacture, and test of marine equipment • Knowledgeable of the current processes Americas, we are seeking to employ the fol- • Documentation of Systems including main- similar or comparable to SOSI's existing that occur in the Gulf of Mexico. lowing high caliber staff members to be tenance of accurate and detailed records products. Additionally, experience with indus- • Commercial awareness. based in Houston: pertaining to the system, instrumentation trial field fabrication will be beneficial. The In return Fugro GEOS offers a dynamic team OCEANOGRAPHIC FIELD TECHNICIAN and offshore reports applicant must possess good communica- based, working environment in an exciting The chosen individual will be a core member • Development of Acceptance Testing tions skills and be capable of not only work- and developing market, as well as the long- of our operational team that has an excellent Procedures and Implementation ing independently with minimum supervision, term potential for you to develop your skills reputation for the provision of reliable and • Offshore installation, servicing and mainte- but must be able to effectively manage the and career. Compensation will be commen- accurate oceanographic measurement servic- nance of systems. company's small engineering and design surate with qualifications and experience and es. The role will involve a number of key The ideal candidate will be: team. The candidate must be detail oriented, includes a full benefits package. EOE. If you activities including: • Educated in electronics, with experience in a team player, a motivated self-starter, and are up to the challenge please fax resume to • The deployment, recovery, and servicing of design and building of metocean systems. have a BS or advanced degree in mechanical (713) 346-3605, e-mail to [email protected] oceanographic measurement instrumenta- • Prepared to travel both and internationally, engineering. A Professional Engineering or mail to Fugro GEOS, Inc., P.O. Box tion. with experience of working in the offshore license in the State of Washington is highly 740010, Houston, TX 77274. Deadline for • The installation and maintenance of real- environment both aboard vessels and fixed desirable. Extensive experience in AutoCAD application 25 November 2005. time measurement systems and their asso- installations. and Inventor software is required as is experi- Jan van Smirren ciated deployment systems. • Attentive to detail ence with Microsoft office products. Fugro GEOS Inc. • The maintenance of accurate and detailed • Be able to work independently or as part of The successful candidate will be hired as the 6100 Hillcroft instrument service records, trip reports, a team on a wide range of projects Engineering Design Manager & Chief Houston, TX 77081 and logs. • Have excellent written and oral communica- Engineer of the company. As such, the suc- USA The ideal candidate will be: tion skills in English cessful candidate will be responsible for all Phone: 713-346-3611 • Experienced in testing, installation, and • Familiar with AutoCAD engineering and design activities of the com- Email: [email protected] data handling of real-time serial and analog In return Fugro GEOS offers a dynamic team pany including the day to day management, WEB: http://www.geos.com data acquisition systems. based, working environment in an exciting allocation and direction of the company's • Experienced in servicing and maintaining and developing market, as well as the long- internal and external engineering and design marine scientific equipment or similar term potential for you to develop your skills resources. The Chief Engineer will be respon- DRAFTSMANS AND NAVAL ARCHITECT devices. and career. Compensation will be commen- sible for implementing the Configuration • Prepared to travel both domestically and surate with qualifications and experience and Job Location: United Arab Emirates, Dubai Management and other engineering and internationally and to work aboard offshore includes a full benefits package. EOE. If you Exomos is looking for its design department design related processes of the company. vessels and installations. are up to the challenge please fax resume to several draftsmen and one naval architect to The Chief Engineer will assist estimating, proj- • Willing to work a flexible call-out schedule (713) 346-3605, e-mail to [email protected] work on new designs and existing hulls. ect management and sales efforts by provid- involving 150 - 250 field days per year with or mail to Fugro GEOS, Inc., P.O. Box Drawing, drafting, 3D, CAD, hull resistance ing estimates of engineering labor hours and time off between jobs. 740010, Houston, TX 77274. Deadline for and speed predictions. timelines for new product development and • Attentive to details and able to work inde- application 25 November 2005. Herve Jaubert other required engineering activities. pendently in the field. Jan van Smirren Exomos Ted Brockett In return Fugro GEOS offers a dynamic team Fugro GEOS Inc. Jebel Ali Free zone Sound Ocean Systems, Inc. based, working environment in an exciting 6100 Hillcroft Dubai, Dubai 18681 P.O. Box 2978 and developing market, as well as the long- Houston, TX 77081 United Arab Emirates Redmond, WA 98075 term potential for you to develop your skills USA Phone: 971 488 35222 USA and career. Compensation will be commen- Phone: 713-346-3611 Fax: 971 488 35228 Phone: 425-869-1834 surate with qualifications and experience and Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Fax: 425-869-5554 includes a full benefits package. EOE. If you WEB: http://www.geos.com WEB: http://www.exomos.com Email: [email protected] are up to the challenge please fax resume to WEB: http://www.soundocean.com (713) 346-3605, e-mail to [email protected] or mail to Fugro GEOS, Inc., P.O. Box OCEANOGRAPHIC CONSULTANT WIG ENGINEER 740010, Houston, TX 77274. Deadline for Job Location: USA, TX Houston Job Location: United Arab Emirates, Dubai SYSTEMS ANALYST / PROGRAMMER application 25 November 2005. Fugro GEOS is the world's foremost provider To design,develop and build commercial wing Job Location: Australia, Hobart

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We are seeking a scientific systems SEA GRANT MARITIME EXTENSION EDU- JR. TECHNICAL SALES REPRESENTATIVE Penn State University analyst/programmer with experience in real CATOR Job Location: USA, TX Houston Position #20439 time data acquisition and display, and data Job Location: USA, MN Duluth MacArtney Offshore, Inc. is looking for an Apply via web at listed url. analysis to join our Data Acquisition and Applications and nominations are invited for enthusiastic individual to work in the Sales Email: [email protected] Processing Group. The successful applicant the position of Sea Grant Maritime Extension Department at its Houston, TX location. This WEB: will be responsible for undertaking a review Educator. The office is at Washburn Hall, position will be responsible for inside sales http://www.psu.edu/ur/jobs.html of our current vessel based data acquisition, University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). The activities of company products and services display, logging and processing systems and position is in the University of Minnesota's to the Oil and Gas, Defense and practices and benchmarking them against academic staff category with the title of Oceanographic markets. MATERIALS/PRODUCTION TECHNICIAN our international peers. Extension Educator. The Maritime Extension Position Description: OR ENGINEER Based on the results of the review the appli- Educator will work with the maritime industry, This position is responsible for Customer Job Location: Canada, Halifax cant will develop a strategy for the upgrade policy makers, natural resource profession- service duties and will include Communication The Oceanography Department at Dalhousie or replacement of the scientific data systems als, the Great Lakes Sea Grant community, with Customer; Preparation of technical pro- University requires a materials/production on the Austrlian Marine National Facility that and Great Lakes researchers to increase posals/quotes, Purchase and Sales Order technician or engineer to take a leading role will be both best in class and adaptable for cooperation among organizations, improve Entry and Tracking. The Technical Sales Rep in a grant-paid (renewable) research project future needs. environmental management, and apply univer- will be responsible for identifying, organizing on the manufacture, testing, refinement and Simon Allen sity research results to help solve problems and maintaining customer accounts, and industrial production of large numbers of CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research and improve efficiencies. Complete position accurate recordkeeping. small particles with uniform properties. For Castray Esplanade responsibilities can be found at Applicant Requirements: details and contact information, see: Hobart, Tasmania 7000 http://www.d.umn.edu/umdhr/umdjobs.html The ideal candidate will have: http://oceanography.dal.ca/ocean_5323.html Australia • Strong Technical back ground, electrical or Chris Taggart Phone: +61 3 6232 5476 The candidate must have a Masters degree mechanical engineer, field technician etc. Dalhousie University Email: [email protected] and three years experience. Preferred qualifi- • Good organizational and follow-up skills Halifax, Nova Scotia WEB: http://www.cmar.csiro.au cations include: 1. Understanding of Great • Excellent written and verbal communication Canada Lakes maritime issues such as supply chain skills Fax: 902-494-3877 security, short sea shipping, intermodal trans- • Experienced in Microsoft Office (Word, Email: [email protected] INSTRUMENT TECHNICIAN portation, economic and environmental Excel, Outlook) WEB: Job Location: USA, LA Cocodrie impacts, waterway infrastructure mainte- • Familiar with Quick books, MRP/ERP and http://oceanography.dal.ca/ocean_5323.html The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium nance, ballast water management to mini- AutoCad (LUMCON) has an opening for an Instrument mize invasive species introductions, and • Experience with Subsea / Marine Products Technician to maintain and assist in the trade and regulatory policies. 2. Ability to preferred NAVIGATOR deployment of a growing system of coastal coordinate and manage multiple projects and Applicant must be a self-starter and able to Job Location: , Offshore monitoring stations. See http://weather.lum- to keep and maintain good records. work independently. Veritas DGC Inc., a $600 plus million public con.edu/. 3. Good skills in managing schedules, budg- Qualified candidates should respond with a geophysical information and services Each station has weather and water property ets, and contracted services. 4. Strong cover letter detailing salary requirements and provider, is one of the world's leading sensors, and a data gathering communica- interpersonal skills, particularly the ability to resume to General Manager; email off- providers of advanced geophysical technolo- tions package for sending information to the work effectively with a diverse group of indi- [email protected], Fax to 713-266-7519 gies. Veritas Marine Acquisition, a division of LUMCON Marine Center. The LUMCON viduals, both within and outside the college Job location: Houston, TX Veritas DGC Inc., is currently recruiting for Coastal Monitoring Technician is responsible and university. 5. Demonstrated ability to Lars Hansen individuals from all disciplines of marine data for all aspects of station design, parts pro- work as part of a team including experience MacArtney Offshore acquisition. We have a rewarding opportunity curement and inventory, fabrication, testing, leading project teams. 6. Demonstrated abili- 3660 Westchase Drive for a Navigator in our various global offshore installation and trouble shooting at all LUM- ty to develop and implement a successful Houston, TX 77042 locations. CON Coastal Monitoring Stations, and regular outreach program related to the GLMRI and USA The qualified incumbent will be responsible cleaning, calibration and maintenance of the Sea Grant missions. 7. Ability to communi- Phone: 713 266 7575 for the recording quality of navigation data station instrumentation. Responsibilities also cate complex maritime related issues effec- Fax: 713 266 7519 onboard the vessel. In charge of the accu- include maintaining accurate and detailed tively to lay audiences. 8. Demonstrated abil- Email: [email protected] rate setup and operation of ALL navigation metadata records for all actions pertaining to ity to use new technologies to conduct edu- acquisition systems and sub-systems the stations and instrumentation, and working cational programs and to conduct routine onboard the assigned vessel. Ensure that all with LUMCON IT personnel to upgrade the office management. 9. Experience in devel- ASSOCIATE RESEARCH ENGINEER components of navigation acquisition opera- web-based data display protocol. The oping and implementing regional and national Job Location: USA, PA State College tions run efficiently and effectively to mini- Instrument Technician will participate in the extension programs. Responsible for research and development of mize down time. Perform installation and planning and installation of new stations, and new technologies for application to the analy- maintenance of the above systems and their establish maintenance schedules for all sta- Applicants should provide letter of applica- sis and control of advanced Autonomous associated cables and antennas located on tions under the supervision of the Director for tion, vitae, and names, telephone numbers, e- Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). This job provides the masts, catwalks and on in-water floats. Operations and Facilities. mail addresses and mailing addresses of an opportunity to design and implement con- Perform proper layout of seismic recording A bachelor's or master's degree in an Earth three references to: Marie Zhuikov, Search trol and guidance algorithms in systems utiliz- equipment and ensure proper connections Sciences program and experience with field Committee Chair, Minnesota Sea Grant, 2305 ing an advanced rapid-prototyping and devel- have been made to recording equipment. instrumentation is recommended. E 5th Street, University of Minnesota Duluth, opment process. Contribute to the develop- Requirements: Specific skills include the ability to maintain Duluth, MN 55812 ment and maintenance of system-level simula- Working knowledge of UNIX preferred but not and troubleshoot analog and digital electronic Phone: (218)726-7677, e-mail: tions of a range of AUVs and participate in at- required. GPS - Navigation experience a instrumentation systems, batteries, solar [email protected] sea testing of new AUV systems and plus. Associates degree or above in arrays, and rf modem communication sys- advanced technologies. Perform advanced Hydrographic Surveying, Marine Science, tems. Familiarity and demonstrated proficien- Review of complete applications will begin research on AUV systems ranging from large Marine Technology or Electronic Engineering cy with Campbell Scientific Loggernet soft- November 1, 2005 and will continue until (>5 tons) to small (<200 lbs) and slow (2-6 a plus. Must possess willingness and ability ware, Campbell Scientific dataloggers, position is filled. kt) to speeds where there is involvement in to travel and work offshore for extended peri- Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system, developing relevant models of physics. ods of time (current rotation is six weeks off- serial and TCP/IP communication protocols, Requires Bachelor`s degree (Master`s degree shore / six weeks leave). Must have a valid radio communication hardware interfaces, The University of Minnesota is an Equal preferred) or equivalent in Mechanical, Aero, passport before starting employment. and Microsoft Excel or similar data manipula- Opportunity Educator and Employer. or Electrical Engineering, plus two years of Submit to and pass a drug screening and tion/visualization software, along with field Marie Zhuikov work-related experience. Experience in model- UKOOA medical. Obtain a Basic Offshore experience and small boat handling capabili- University of Minnesota Sea Grant Program ing and simulation of physical systems, con- Safety Induction and Emergency Training ties are desired. 2305 E 5th St trol system analysis and design, and pro- Certificate before starting employment (this Salary range commens Duluth, MN 55812 gramming in Matlab/Simulink and C/C++ pre- is scheduled and paid for by the company). Brenda Leroux Babin USA ferred, as well as a demonstrated ability to Team player with strong interpersonal com- LUMCON Phone: 218-726-7677 work independently. Candidates selected will munication and organizational skills. 8124 Highway 56 Fax: 218-726-6556 be subject to a government security investi- Proficient computer skills. Chauvin, LA 70344 Email: [email protected] gation and must meet eligibility requirements Company Offers: Phone: 985-851-2878 WEB: for access to classified information. U.S. Paid travel to and from crew change location. 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and training program. Fax: 832-351-8721 PRODUCT SUPPORT MANAGER utilizing the appropriate software program. Interested applicants may apply online by vis- Email: [email protected] Job Location: USA, FL Fort Lauderdale 7.The employee must frequently lift and/or iting http://www.veritasdgc.com/ and com- WEB: http://www.veritasdgc.com SUMMARY move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abil- pleting an Online Application by clicking the Diagnose and repair electrical systems, appa- ities required by this job include close "Career" tab. ratus, electrical and electronic components vision, color vision, depth perception, and Veritas is an equal opportunity employer. OBSERVER and products including Electronic Chart ability to adjust focus. Human Resources Job Location: USA, Offshore Systems, ECDIS, AIS, VHF DSC radios, Debbie Webb Veritas Geophysical Corporation Veritas DGC Inc., a $600 plus million public searchlights, and EPIRBS. Strong trou- ACR Electronics, Inc 10300 Town Park Drive geophysical information and services bleshooting skills & excellent verbal & written 5757 Ravenswood Road Houston, TX 77082 provider, is one of the world's leading communication skills required. Provide tech- Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 USA providers of advanced geophysical technolo- nical support to internal & external customers USA Phone: 832-351-8300 gies. Veritas Marine Acquisition, a division of & supervise Customer Service Department. Phone: 954 981-3333 Fax: 832-351-8721 Veritas DGC Inc., is currently recruiting for ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Fax: 954 961-4403 Email: [email protected] individuals from all disciplines of marine data include the following. Other duties may be Email: [email protected] WEB: http://www.veritasdgc.com acquisition. We have a rewarding opportunity assigned. WEB: http://www.acrelectronics.com for an Observer in our various global offshore • Trains department employees and ensures locations. that the goal of three day turn-time is main- NAVIGATIONAL ANALYST Responsible for the accurate setup and oper- tained. NAVIGATOR Job Location: USA, Offshore ation of all seismic recording systems and • Determines work procedures, prepares Job Location: USA, Offshore Veritas DGC Inc., a $600 plus million public streamers onboard the vessel and must work schedules, and expedites workflow. Veritas Marine Acquisition is currently recruit- geophysical information and services ensure optimum performance. Ensure that • Have a very good understanding of ACR ing for individuals from all disciplines of provider, is one of the world's leading all components of the seismic recording Products and be able to effectively train marine data acquisition. We have opportuni- providers of advanced geophysical technolo- operations run efficiently and effectively to customer service personnel on product fea- ties in our various global offshore locations. gies. Veritas Marine Acquisition, a division of minimize down time. Ensure that routine and tures and benefits. Understand the COPAS- Our work is challenging and we offer exciting Veritas DGC Inc., is currently recruiting for incidental seismic maintenance requirements SARSAT satellite system and how it works. career opportunities for talented individuals. individuals from all disciplines of marine data are met through expeditious use of non- • Supervises and coordinates activities of We are seeking candidates for a Navigator acquisition. We have a rewarding opportunity recording time. Ensure that all cable deploy- Customer Service Personnel engaged in position. The qualified incumbent will: for a Navigational Analyst in our various glob- ment and retrieval operations are carried out service requests and information and Record quality of navigation data onboard the al offshore locations. as expeditiously as possible, within the con- repairs. vessel, in charge of the accurate setup, and The qualified incumbent will determine that straints of safety of personnel, equipment • Reads work orders, follows drawings and operation of ALL navigation acquisition sys- sufficient raw data is recorded by the Real- and quality of data. Ensure that all contractu- sample assemblies, or receives verbal tems and sub-systems onboard the assigned Time Integrated Navigation System to fulfill al and internal seismic quality control specifi- instructions regarding duties to be per- vessel, ensure that all components of naviga- contract specifications with regards to miss- cations for the job are met or exceeded. formed. tion acquisition operations run efficiently and ing data and network redundancy. Ensure a Requirements: • Occasionally goes out on field calls to cus- effectively to minimize down time, perform rigorous QC of information including: raw nav- AS Degree or above in a GeoSciences disci- tomers to troubleshoot and repair RCL-100 installation and maintenance of the above igation quality, geodetic parameters, equip- pline a plus. Must have a valid passport lights systems and their associated cables and ment offset measurements, data format con- before starting employment. Submit to and • Uses volt meters to assist Incoming antennas located on the masts, catwalks and formity, and processed navigation data. pass a drug screening and UKOOA medical. Inspection with testing of RCL-100 panels. on in-water floats, perform proper layout of Ensure an accurate and consistent set of QC Obtain a Basic Offshore Safety Induction and • Meets production and repair commitments seismic recording equipment and ensure products is generated during the processing Emergency Training Certificate before start- in a timely manner. proper connections have been made to sequence. Perform trend analysis of the ing employment (this is scheduled and paid • Answers incoming calls from customers, recording equipment. quality statistics derived from processing in a for by the company). Must be able to travel responding to questions/concerns and giv- Requirements: survey-wide, or chronological mode as an aid and work offshore for extended periods of ing them appropriate information to ensure Working knowledge of UNIX preferred but not in determining hardware failures, network time (rotations are currently 6 weeks off- complete satisfaction. required. GPS - Navigation experience a degradation or environmental effects. shore/6 weeks leave). Team player with • Prepare work orders for products returned plus. Associates degree or above in Requirements: strong interpersonal communication and orga- from customers & determine best course Hydrographic Surveying, Marine Science, A degree in Geodesy, Marine Sciences, Earth nizational skills. Proficient computer skills. of action to repair or replace product. Marine Technology or Electronic Engineering Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Marine Company Offers: • Follows production drawing and /or sample a plus. Must possess willingness and ability Technology or Electrical Engineering or rele- Paid travel to and from crew change location. assemblies or receives verbal instructions to travel and work offshore for extended peri- vant/substitute work experience. Proficiency Accommodations and meals provided while regarding the repair completion. ods of time (current rotation is six weeks off- with PCs and MS Office. Working knowledge onboard the vessel. Bonus Incentive Plan, • Contact customer with repair estimates to shore / six weeks leave). of Unix and/or Concepts preferred. Must after successfully completing Trainee period obtain approval for completion of work to Additional Job Requirements: have a valid passport before starting employ- and training program. be done. Must have a valid passport before starting ment. Submit to and pass a drug screening Interested applicants may apply online by vis- • Repairs and replaces components, as nec- employment. Submit to and pass a drug and UKOOA medical. Obtain a Basic Offshore iting http://www.veritasdgc.com/ and com- essary in order to complete needed screening and UKOOA medical. Obtain a Safety Induction and Emergency Training pleting an Online Application by clicking the repairs. Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Certificate before starting employment (this is "Career" tab. • Coordinates return of product to consumer. Emergency Training Certificate before start- scheduled and paid for by the company). Veritas is an equal opportunity employer. • Informs Sales & Service Manager of service ing employment (this is scheduled and paid Must be able to travel and work offshore for Human Resources difficulties, trends, and unique customer for by the company). Must be able to travel extended periods of time (rotations are cur- Veritas Geophysical Corporation requirements or requests. and work offshore for extended periods of rently 6 weeks offshore/6 weeks leave). 10300 Town Park Drive Qualifications time (rotations are currently 6 weeks off- Team player with strong interpersonal com- Houston, TX 77072 1.Minimum of 3 years installing, maintaining shore/6 weeks leave). Team player with munication and organizational skills. Strong USA & repairing ship Bridge Information & strong interpersonal communication and orga- verbal and written communication skills. Phone: 832-351-8300 Communication Systems, including nizational skills. Proficient computer skills Proficient computer skills Fax: 832-351-8721 Electronic Chart Systems, ECDIS, AIS, VHF Company offers: Paid travel to and from crew Company Offers: Email: [email protected] DSC radios, searchlights, and EPIRBS. change location; Accommodations and meals Paid travel to and from crew change location. WEB: http://www.veritasdgc.com 2.Associate's degree (A.A.) or equivalent provided while onboard the vessel; Bonus Accommodations and meals provided while from two-year college or technical school; Incentive Plan, after successfully completing onboard the vessel. Bonus Incentive Plan, or 5-7 years related experience and/or Trainee period; Training Program. after successfully completing Trainee period SHIPYARD MARKETING training; or equivalent combination of edu- Interested applicants may apply via email by and training program. Job Location: USA, NJ cation & experience. sending resumes to [email protected]. Interested applicants may apply online by vis- We are looking for a mature and experienced 3.Strong mechanical aptitude & good manual For additional organization information, iting http://www.veritasdgc.com/ and com- person to join our team of experts to market dexterity. please visit http://www.veritasdgc.com/. pleting an Online Application by clicking the the shipyard drydocking and repair services 4.Be able to read and understand blueprints Veritas is an Equal Opportunity Employer. "Career" tab. to ship owners and ship management compa- and schematics. Trena Gipson Veritas is an equal opportunity employer. nies on the East Coast. 5.Ability to effectively communicate in English Veritas Geophysical Corporation Human Resources ISM with customers, clients, Customer Service, 10300 Town Park Drive Veritas Geophysical Corporation International Shipyard Marketing and other employees of the organization. Houston, TX 77072 10300 Town Park Drive Email: [email protected] 6.Must be proficient using in the use of com- USA Houston, TX 77072 puter software such as Windows, MS Word Phone: 832-351-8047 USA and Excel and be able to provide data and Fax: 832-351-8721 Phone: 832-351-8300 required information to various departments Email: [email protected]

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