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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 53 attending Florida Atlantic University received $3,000, and Snow who will be attending the University of

Washington received $2,000. All will be recognized during the Awards

Presentations at Underwater

Intervention '07 in New Orleans,

Louisiana.

Drew Michel, Chairman of the

ROV Committee of MTS initiated the scholarship program in 1994.

Since then it has awarded over $80,000 to deserving students.

Scholarship applications for 2007/8 must be received by April 15, 2007.

Details on how to apply and addi- tional information on the MTS ROV committee can be found at http://www.rov.org/.

Kollmorgen Awarded $17.2m Option

Kollmorgen Corp., Electro-Optical

Division, Northampton, Mass., was awarded a $17,210,195 fixed-price incentive and firm-fixed price modifi- cation under previously awarded con- tract to exercise an option for pro- duction of seven integrated subma- rine imaging systems (ISIS), includ- ing associated on-board repair parts and installation-checkout spares for the SSN 688 class submarine; and one ISIS SSGN class production sys- tem, including associated on-board repair parts and installation and check-out spares. The integrated submarine imaging system will pro- vide mission critical, all weather, visu- al and electronic search, digital image management, indication, warning, and platform architecture interface capabilities for SSN 688, SSN 21, and SSGN class submarines. i-Tech's Announces

Deepwater ROV Program

Global contractor, i-Tech, part of

Subsea 7, said it has placed a signifi- cant order for new build deepwater work class vehicles, which will be supplied with advanced, light weight, high performance handling systems.

The systems, to be named Centurion

Qx, have been specifically designed and built for i-Tech and its target market.

The 125hp Centurion Qx will be rated to operate at water depths up to 2,000m as standard with options to upgrade to 3,000 m and beyond.

The systems will be built by SMD

Hydrovision (SMDH) at its Turbinia works on the River Tyne in

Newcastle, UK. The Centurion Qx is an evolution of the successful

Subsea 7 designed and built

Centurion work class series. The new

Centurion Qx will incorporate a number of key components used on

SMDH's proven Q-Series range of

ROV's including DVECS distributed control and the latest generation

Curvetech thrusters.

OceanWorks Completes

Testing of Thruster

OceanWorks International, Inc. completed successful testing of a new thruster system for the Hardsuit atmospheric diving suit.

The first system will be delivered on a Hardsuit system scheduled for delivery to an undisclosed NATO

Navy in the spring of 2006. The new thrusters can be directly retrofit to both HS1200 and HS2000 Hardsuit systems.

The new high performance thruster system provides significantly improved reliability and vertical and horizontal thrust. Another advantage is noise reduction that allows for improved communications.

WHG Wins NOAA

Contract

Woods Hole Group, Inc. won a real-time current monitoring project with the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Great Lakes. Under contract to NOAA, Woods Hole

Group will install two Horizontal

Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (HADCP) for real time data report- ing in two rivers adjacent to Lake

Erie.

One installation will be on the

Maumee River in Toledo, and one will be on the Cuyahoga River in

Cleveland. Both locations are con- sidered critical for safe vessel naviga- tion and will provide real-time river current conditions.

The real time current information is intended to assist the Great Lakes

Shipping Association, Lake Carriers

Association, and Lake Pilots

Association to more safely navigate.

After the installations are complete,

NOAA will process and disseminate the river current information through their Great Lakes PORTS on-line data display http://www.glakeson- line.nos.noaa.gov/ people & companies

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