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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 45South Bay Cable Corp54125 Maranatha DriveIdyllwild, CA 92549Tel: (951) 659-2183 Fax: (951) 659-3958E-mail: sales@ southbaycable.com Website: www.southbaycable.com President/CEO: Gordon Brown Sales Manager: Gary Brown Engineering Manager: Oscar LehuedeProduction Manager: Ken Cripe Facility: Two facilities (Idyllwild, CA and Temecula, CA) 100,000 total sq/ft Testing Capabilities: electrical, optical and mechanical test- ing equipment. Outside facilities are also used and include hydrostatic pressure, and a host of mechanical tests. Number of employees: 80Founded in 1957, South Bay Cable Corp designs and produces purpose- built, hard-working cables for use in harsh and demanding environments. Corporate headquarters are located in Idyllwild, CA with additional manu- facturing facilities in Temecula, CA. The two facilities total approximately 100,000 square feet. To date, South Bay has designed and produced over sixty-thousand different cable con- structions, with each cable design cus- tomized for the intended application. Cable uses include ROV Tether and Umbilicals, tow cables, geophysical exploration, bottom laid interconnect cables, mine sweep cables, airborne aerostat and a host of other special purpose applications. Technology Profile: F rom the initial design phase to the drawing of thecopper rod to the final jacketing oper- ations, South Bay Cable performs nearly all operations in house.Electrical conductors can be designed to be highly flexible, optical fibers canbe incorporated into several different configurations and mechanicalstrength members include both syn- thetic and metallic materials. Cablescan be designed with working loads as low as 50 pounds to ultimate breaking strengths in excess of 100,000 pounds. All load-bearing cables are designed to be torque-balanced or torque-resistant. Cygnus 4000MPressure tested to 4000 metersCygnus 2000MPressure tested to 2000 metersCygnus ROV Mountable Thickness GaugesPhone: 410-267-9771Fax: 410-268-2013Email: [email protected] Instruments, Inc.1993 Moreland ParkwaySuite 202Annapolis, MD 21401Cygnus Instruments, Inc.Work Class Probe Holder