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Tide Gage Systems

Sutron Corp. of Sterling, Va., sup- plies tide gage systems to the US

National Ocean Service (NOS): • G3 Main Gage - Data logging and telemetry for all approved NOS water level and weather sensors G3 Redundant Gage - Data log- ging for a redundant water level sen- sor and redundant weather sensors, operating along side the G3 Main

Gage as a backup G3 Hydrographic Station -

Water level monitoring in tidally- affected inland streams and research applications Gages include Sutron's

XPert data logger.

XPert loggers run

Windows CE, and can communicate over three devices while collecting data. Four MB are available for data and custom process- ing in BASIC. XPerts include soft- ware made for NOS applications.

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SeaBotix Adds to the

LBV Line

SeaBotix has added to the LBV range of ROV systems making a total of 12 standard systems. There are five primary categories: LBV150,

LBV300, LBV600, LBV1500 and "Fly Outs". The number designates the LBV's depth rating in meters and the "Fly Out" category offers three systems in the deeper depth

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Draeger Safety, Inc. launched the first delivery of 45 Submarine Escape

Devices (SED) delivered in April 2005 to the Escuadron de

Submarinos of the Ecuadorian Navy in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The SED is a personal escape apparatus for use by marines or Submarine personnel to exit from a stricken submarine. These first 45 units are destined for the shipyard HDW class 209-1300

Submarine S-102 Huancavilca.

Introduction to the Ecuadorian Navy started in early 2003 and was man- aged together with project partner,

Alfred Rytz of SIPASA. SIPASA and

Draeger Safety, Inc. are currently working on another Submarine

Escape Devise project for Ecuador's

Navy to procure units for the second

Submarine named Shyri.

A team from Draeger Safety trav- eled to Ecuador in mid-May to final- ize the delivery of the product and conduct operator and maintenance training to the Submariners. The training was at the Eschule

Submarinos (Submarine Training

School) and the Naval Academy located in Ecuador.

With the new SED, Draeger has expanded the product range available for Submarine safety and atmosphere conditioning for conventional diesel- electric Submarines. The SED was developed exclusively at Draeger's

Pittsburgh office to replace the

Draeger TR75 escape unit which had been out of production since the late 1980's. The SED is a fully functional semi-closed circuit re-breathing device using a nitrox mixture as the breathing gas and designed to be used up to a depth of 75 m/246 fsw. A unique feature of the SED is its com- bined breathing bag/buoyancy cham- ber. Shaped in the form of a horse- collar type life preserver, it functions as a re-breather breathing bag during the ascent phase of the escape and as a life preserver at the surface when fully inflated, keeping the sub- mariner's head out of the water and in a face up attitude. Signal equip- ment is provided to help alert rescuers to the submariner's position.

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SED: An Emergency Escape Underwater Breathing Apparatus

Draeger Safety's SED team with rep- resentatives from the Ecuador Navy.

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