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Technology Profile: The CARIS product line provides a complete 'Ping-to-Chart' solution from post- processing of bathymetric data to chart production, to spatial database management and production, through to Internet distribution.

HIPS and SIPS offer a comprehensive bathymetric data cleaning and valida- tion tool integrated with powerful vector product creation. Take the raw sounding data from survey to chart.

Supporting over 40 industry standard sonar data formats, HIPS and SIPS can easily integrate into any work- flow. Bathy DataBASE allows the user to centrally manage large bathy- metric data sets coming from differ- ent data sources. The software allows users to validate and combine bathy- metric data sets as input for further.

CaviDyne, LLC

P.O. Box 358628

Gainesville, Fla. 32635

Tel: (352) 275-5319

Email: [email protected] www.cavidyne.com

CEO: John R. Fulkerson

President: Dr. Ilia Kondratiev

Vice President: Antone L. Forneris

Engineering Director: Vladimir Paramygin

Number of Employees: 6

Annual Sales (US$): <$1,000,000

CaviDyne, LLC was conceived in 2002, when a team of Russian scien- tists and engineers that had been studying the physics of cavitation joined efforts with a group of

American entrepreneurs. Together, this team began to study high-energy or ultra-cavitation and to search for potential commercial applications of that technology. The first promising application developed by the group is for cleaning underwater surfaces at relatively low pressures. In 2003,

CaviDyne was formed and research and development began on the company's first high-energy cav- itation underwa- ter cleaning sys- tem, the CaviBlaster. Throughout the R&D process, attention was focused on maximizing the efficiency of the cavitation-generating nozzle.

By 2005, CaviDyne researchers had developed a nozzle that generated cavitation bubbles in a jet of water passing through it. This was an important stage in the development of the technology because it eliminat- ed the danger of injury to the diver through contact with high-pressure 20 MTR July 2008

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