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Subsea 7 Completes first AIV

Subsea 7 completed the design and build of the first commer- cial AIV, a technology which has the potential to revolutionize

Life-of-Field projects. Subsea 7 has a plan to develop a series of

Autonomous Inspection Vehicles (AIV), initially capable of general visual inspection, through to fully capable work-class sized inter- vention vehicles. A combined project team comprising hardware developers and operational personnel from Subsea 7 and

Seebyte has been working together to deliver the first vehicle.

The design and build of the vehicle is complete and successful progress through in-water trial and commissioning phase is underway. Following completion of extensive in-water testing and capability development, the first commercial AIV is expected to be available in late 2011. The vehicle is fully autonomous and will be designed to operate for a 24-hour period on a single charge of its lithium-ion batteries.

OPT Commences Trials of Wave Power Device

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT) commenced ocean trials of the first of its new generation utility-scale

PowerBuoy device, the PB150. With a peak-rated power output of 150 kW the PB150 is the largest and most powerful wave power device designed by OPT to date. This device was suc- cessfully deployed at sea on April 15, 2011 by a team including

Scotland-based Global Maritime Scotland Ltd, Port Services (Invergordon) Ltd and OPT, with the support of the Cromarty

Firth Port Authority.

CIDCO Purchases Iver2 AUV for Mapping & Research

OceanServer won a contract from CIDCO (Interdisciplinary

Center for the Development of Ocean Mapping) for an Iver2

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). CIDCO has a long history of facilitating new mapping technologies to further develop the maritime industry in Quebec, Canada. The new autonomous vehi- cle, equipped with Marine Sonic’s HDS Sonar, will be used in near coastal waters including ports, harbors, lakes, and rivers for bathymetric surveys and modeling. The Center will also take advantage of the Iver vehicle’s unique open system platform as a test bench to develop new applications and technologies. The multi-purposed vehicle will help CIDCO explore these new meth- ods and tools to facilitate the logistics of data acquisition in shal- low water. All Iver2 AUV models come standard with

OceanServer’s VectorMap Mission Planning and Data

Presentation tool, which provides geo-registered data files that can be easily exported to other software analysis tools.

BlueView Receives Large Order From Seatronics

BlueView Technologies received an order for another 20 high- resolution P900-130 Imaging Sonar systems, and another

BV5000-1350 3D Mechanical Scanning System from Seatronics,

Ltd. In the coming months BlueView will deliver the systems to

Seatronics offices around the globe in part to increase their international lease pool. These systems include some of

BlueView’s latest system options including built-in Ethernet exten- ders, and oil compensated electronics for a 4,000 meter depth rating.