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Obituary

Patrick F. Madison

Patrick F. Madison, co-founder of

MAR-VEL International, died the morning of June 10, 2005 after a brief illness. He was 90 years of age.

Madison, along with Everett

Edmund, founded M&E Marine

Supply in 1946. MAR-VEL

Underwater Equipment, Inc. was a division of M&E Marine. In 2000 the name was changed to MAR-VEL

International, Inc. Madison served for many years as President of MAR-

VEL. After his retirement, Mr.

Madison played a vital roll as a mem- ber of the Board of Directors even up until his passing. Madison was an extremely active man who was a member of the Explorers Society, a pilot, and was recently nominated to the Commercial Divers Hall of Fame.

UK Submarine Award to Nautronix

Nautronix signed a multimillion- dollar, three-year enabling/rental con- tract with the U.K. Ministry of

Defence for a NASNet tracking range system. The range will be used by the

Ministry of Defense (MoD) in the acceptance of the S&T final phase submarine tactical weapons system.

Mark Patterson, Nautronix CEO, said the MoD requirement is for a large-area acoustic tracking range, deployable in deep water, with highly accurate positional data available in real time to both sub-surface and sur- face vessels.

Schilling Robotics Opens

Houston Office

Schilling Robotics, a leader in sub- sea equipment, opened a regional office in Houston earlier this year.

The Houston office joins Schilling

Robotics' headquarters in Davis,

Calif. and the North Sea regional office in Aberdeen, U.K. to provide worldwide service to the offshore energy industry. "Since Houston is central to one of the world's major offshore oil regions, we look forward to providing on-the-ground, personal service to our customers in the area," said Jason Stanley, Schilling Robotics vice president and regional manager.

The office address is: Schilling

Robotics-Gulf of Mexico, 11757

Katy Freeway, Suite 1300, Houston,

Texas 77079-1725.

Perry Slingsby Systems'

Appoints North Sea Rep

Perry Slingsby Systems entered into an agreement with Scan Tech U.K.

Ltd. to offer the range of Perry

Slingsby Systems ROV tooling. Perry

Slingsby Systems and Scan Tech will work together to ensure that the latest in ROV tooling is available to North

Sea clients, meeting the evolving and expanding market for ROV Standard and Bespoke Tooling. "A growing number of customers require the facility to rent quality ROV tooling products. To meet this emerging need our business model has been expand- ed beyond straight sales of ROV tool- ing systems and now includes a num- ber of exclusive Tooling Rental

Outlets," said David Gillies, Tooling

Sales Manager, Perry Slingsby

Systems.

Gardline Buys Titan

Environmental

A leading near-shore surveyor, Titan

Environmental Surveys Ltd. (Ogmore by Sea, Mid

Glamorgan,Wales), now operates under the Gardline Marine Sciences

Ltd. flag. Titan specializes in coastal environmental activities and hydro- metric surveys for water utilities, oil & gas companies, ports and harbors, and the construction industry.

Gardline Environmental Ltd.'s gener- al manager, Phil Durrant, was named director of Titan. More at www.titansurveys.com or www.gard- line.com. $7.4 Million UUV

Contract Awarded

Northrop Grumman Corp.,

Electronic Sensors and

Systems/Oceanic and Naval Systems,

Annapolis, Md., is being awarded a $7,381,315 cost-plus-award-fee con- tract for the development of compo- nents, systems, and subsystems to provide sonar solutions for high-reso- lution bottom mine detection and classification for use in unmanned undersea vehicle applications. Work will be performed in Annapolis, Md., and is expected to be completed by

February 2007. Contract funds will people & companies

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