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MartinezEdwardsHatherleyWegener PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS With Superior for Þ ve years and a practicing lawyer for 23 years, he is a magna cum laude graduate from St. MaryÕs University School of Law. Seakeeper Launches Professional Division To serve growing demand for gyro stabilization, Seakeeper has estab- lished its new Professional Division for commercial, military, workboat, offshore, research and patrol markets. Driving SeakeeperÕs initiatives for the Professional Division are new team members Carl Wegener, Commercial Sales Director Ð Americas and Sean Hatherley, International Commercial Sales Director Ð APAC & EMEA. The company plans further infrastructure development around this division. Wegener comes to Seakeeper with more than 25 years of commercial marine industry experience. Hather- ley joins Seakeeper after serving as VP of sales with Intellian Technologies. EBDG Opens OfÞ ce in Alaska Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) established an ofÞ ce in Ketchikan, Alaska. Said Brian King, EBDG VP of engineering, ÒThis move enables us to better serve our Alaska clients and to establish new relationships and deepen existing ones. We hope to en- joy beneÞ cial business partnerships in the state for some time to come.Ó Ballard Diving & Salvage Changes Name, Expands Ballard Diving & Salvage announc- es that it is changing the company name to Ballard Marine Construc- tion, Inc. to better reß ect its customer base and service capabilities. In addi- tion, the company is expanding with fully staffed and equipped locations in Chicago, Florida and Wisconsin. The locations complement existing BMC regional ofÞ ces. Ballard Marine owner Shilo Hutton said, ÒThe new company name more clearly captures the capabilities of our highly skilled and accomplished team of profession- als and reß ects our expanded marine service capabilities.Ó Olmsted Lock & Dam Work to Continue The passage of last monthÕs Continu- ing Resolution to fund the Federal gov- ernment and raise the debt ceiling con-tained a provision to raise the 902(b) cap on the amount that can be spent on the Olmsted Project in Illinois to $2.9 billion from the current $1.56 bil- lion. The measure does not appropriate funds, but allows work on the project to continue. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers informed the Inland Water- ways Users Board in August that the Olmsted project would be shuttered in November 2013 and would displace 400 workers if Congress did not act the raise the cap. If Olmsted were to have shut down, according to the Corps, it would have cost $40 million to restart the project, and of course, needlessly delay its delivery. Signet Expands Capabilities Signet Shipbuilding & Repair, (SS&R) a division of Signet Maritime Corporation announced the purchase and operation commencement of its newest heavy lift crane for new construc- tion and repair. The 150-ton crawler crane will be utilized for hauling small vessels and barges from the water, and loading/ofß oading marine equipment while vessels are dockside. The Link Belt Model 238 HSL crawler crane has a main boom length of 110 feet; a 30 foot Þ xed jib range, and a maximum tip height of 140 feet. The shipyard already operates a 600-ton Marine Travelift ful- ly capable of dry docking and perform- ing underwater repair. BSEE Extends Public Comment Period The Bureau of Safety and Envi- ronmental Enforcement (BSEE) an- nounced today a 45-day extension to the public comment period for the pro- posed rule on offshore oil and natural gas production safety systems. Com- ments will now be accepted through Dec. 5, 2013. The proposed rule will revise 30 CFR 250 subpart H, Oil and Gas Production Safety Systems, to ad- dress recent technological advances. This section of the regulations has not had a major revision since it was Þ rst published in 1988. The public is in- vited to submit comments. The pro- posed rule can be viewed at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-08- 22/pdf/2013-19861.pdf November 201352 MNMN November2013 Layout 50-58.indd 52MN November2013 Layout 50-58.indd 5210/28/2013 3:22:36 PM10/28/2013 3:22:36 PM