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Shell (MSS), 55 series, Sea-Mate and

U-Mate ranges are manufactured at

SEACON (europe). As the industry switches over to fiber optics for more applications subsea, these range from a single way through to a 48 channel and has led to the introduction of a range of standard, drymate, fiber optic, hybrid connectors named

Opti-Con.

SEACON Global Production was created in 1989 in order to provide a quality, low cost solution for the manufacture of underwater electrical connectors. As a result of continuous success, SEACON Global

Production has become the main rub- ber molded and composite connector manufacturer within the SEACON

Group. With two manufacturing facilities located in Tijuana and

Xalapa, Mexico, SEACON Global

Production has the capability to pro- duce high volume, low cost quality connectors with very quick turn- around times. In addition, the spe- cialized engineering and product development departments can design and produce special application con- nectors to meet individual require- ments. SEACON Global

Production's product range includes the original Marsh & Marine, Rubber

Molded and Glass Reinforced Epoxy (GRE) connectors, as well as the manufacture of the All-Wet, Wet-

Con/Micro Wet-Con/Micro Wet-

Con Split, Hummer and the newly released Globe-Con and CS-MSAJ series.

SEACON Advanced Products,

LLC., was formed by the Group in 1999, to focus directly on the

Lockheed Martin designed HydraStar and CM2000 high integrity under- water mateable connectors. Based in

Bellville, Texas SEACON Advanced

Products, LLC., continue to develop state-of-the-art products which include the HydraLight & MicroStar optical wet-mate connectors, which are based on the HydraStar technolo- gy, together with the S-Series and

Photon optical connector ranges. In addition to the underwater mateable connectors, SEACON Advanced

Products, LLC., also design and man-

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SeaVision Marine Services LLC 302 Maple Hill Road, Naugatuck, CT 06770 (USA) • Tel: 1-203-605-8959 [email protected] www.seavisionmarine.com

President: Jeffrey Z. Snyder

Annual Sales: $250,000 to $500,000

SeaVision Marine Services LLC (SeaVision) is a small business located in Connecticut, specializing in hydrograph- ic survey, remote underwater investigation, and inshore bottom characterization services. Founded in 2005, SeaVision provides a variety of hydrographic survey and remote underwater services to clients with inshore and nearshore inter- ests, with occasional support to offshore clients. Technical Profile: In three years, SeaVision's projects have taken them from their home waters of Connecticut to the arctic tundra of northwestern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and the

Caribbean; a diverse client list has allowed SeaVision to establish a solid foothold in their northeast U.S. regional mar- ket while maintaining the flexibility to service clients nationwide and internationally. When he started SeaVision, company president Jeff Snyder saw an opening in the regional market for a hydrographic services provider with inti- mate knowledge of the pressures that the project owners, engineers, and contractors experience when driving their projects to completion. There also seemed to be opportunities for a services provider who committed to bridging the gap between traditional hydrographic survey services and ROV services, and desired to find new ways to integrate those services within a single business model that could scale the solutions for both inshore and offshore projects.

To that end, SeaVision consistently performs hydrographic surveys using RTK-GPS positioning and singlebeam or multibeam echosounders, sidescan sonar surveys, shallow sub-bottom profiling, and sediment sampling for nearshore projects up and down the eastern United States. SeaVision also provides mini-ROV services for both inshore and off- shore inspection services, and complements inspection-class ROV services with subsea survey support, particularly using inertial navigation systems and 3-D models to provide real-time inspection monitoring.

Snyder sees a bright future for SeaVision. "What we feel makes SeaVision special and worthy of mention in the

MTR 100 is that as an emerging business we are doing some things that you rarely hear about from our regional com- petition or even the larger survey firms. It's what sets us apart - we are equally comfortable working from a 12-ft jon boat to perform a single-beam bathymetric survey in a marina serving Long Island Sound or sitting side-by-side with a pilot to run an inertial navigation system for an inspection-class ROV in a flooded mine in Canada."

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