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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS more days to the working season.

Leader Creek Fisheries’ new haul out system can be configured with up to 10 Holland dollies from Holland

Moving & Rigging Supplies and five crossbeams or trusses. Each 40-ft steel truss consists of two dollies, two accu- mulators and several six by 12-inch

Douglas fir timbers attached to the top to provide a less slippery interface with the vessels. The dollies are mod- ified to be capable of being sub- mersed in water and accumulators assist in regulating the pressure in the hydraulic system. In order to haul out the vessels, dollies are sent down a ramp into the water and the vessel is positioned over the dollies and engaged with the crossbeams. The entire system is then pulled out of the water by a large winch with the hull of the vessel resting on the timbers.

On October 7, 2010, Leader Creek

Fisheries started pulling out vessels with Crowley Maritime’s 40-ft by 140-ft fuel barge weighing 300 ton and one of Crowley’s tugboats weigh- ing 250 ton. When pulling longer scows out of the water, raising the hydraulic cylinders on the dollies compensates for an arc in the ramp.

Miller Boat Line Recognized for

Plane Rescue on Lake Erie

A Captain and three crewmen from the passenger/vehicle ferry service,

Miller Boat Line, Put-in-Bay, Ohio, were honored with a Certificate of

Appreciation given by the ODNR

Division of Watercraft. The honor of "lifesaving efforts" was given to

Captain Steve Rose and crew mem- bers Jacob Market, Bernie Wise and

Greg Johnson. The four men were working aboard a Lake Erie Islands ferry, the William Market, on the morning of Friday, August 13, 2010, when a single-engine, privately- owned plane crashed into the lake near the Miller Ferry Lime Kiln

Dock, Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Captain

Rose responded to the accident quickly and brought the ferry along- side the four plane victims in the water. The crew threw life rings, then brought the victims aboard the ferry.

The downed plane sank in less than two minutes. All four plane passen- gers were unhurt and taken to the

Put-in-Bay Miller Ferry Dock where they were treated then released by the

Put-in-Bay EMS. The plane was attempting to land at the Put-in-Bay

Airport when it lost engine power.

ENPRO Renews Environmental

Services Contract with USCG

ENPRO Services, Inc., a firm spe- cializing in the management of oil and hazardous waste, announced the extension of their long-standing con- tract to provide environmental servic- es to the U.S. Coast Guard. The serv- ices ENPRO provides to the Coast

Guard include containment, mitiga- tion and cleanup of oil and hazardous material spills in New England water- ways. ENPRO also holds certifica- tions with the Coast Guard as a pre- qualified Oil Spill Removal

Organization (OSRO) and ship-to- shore transfer contractor for the First

Coast Guard District, which includes

Massachusetts, Maine, New

Hampshire, Rhode Island,

Connecticut and Vermont.

Austal Awarded Contract for JHSV 4 & 5

Austal received word to move for- ward with the construction contract for the fourth and fifth vessels of the

U.S. Department of Defense’s next generation multi-use platform, the

Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV), as part of a program potentially worth over $1.6b. Austal received funding previously from the Navy, valued at $99,557,548, to acquire long lead- time material, to include diesel engines, water jets and reduction gears, for these two vessels in June 2010. The additional work is valued at approximately $204.6m.

Waller Marine Delivers Caissons to Venezuela

Waller Marine, Inc. recently deliv- ered two large steel caissons to clients in Venezuela to be used for closure of

Marterella

Barczak

Turner Rhoda Joe Rella (center) & Austal Apprentices