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46MTRJuly/August2011 Hydracon Company P.O. Box 27584, Anaheim, CA 92809 Tel: (714) 281-2460 Website: www.hydracon.com President & CEO: Alex Pullos Marketing Director: Faye Pullos General Manager: Andy PullosEngineering Director: V.A. Pullos Square Footage: Approx. 1,500 Number of employees: 6-10Hydracon Subsea has manufactured high-performance deepwater subsea products for over 25 years. Many of the companys near 100 product models are intended for operation ocean depths to 20,000 ft. or to10,000 psi ambient. Hydracons high-performance subsea products include submersible electrical switch-es, subsea solenoid valves, ocean sub- mersible solenoid actuators, andother subsea technology products. Applications include Subsea Electro- Hydraulic Controls, Downhole Tools, Deepwater Pipeline, BOP Controls, autonomous underwater vehicles AUVs and ROVs, Diving, Deep Sea Mining, Dredging, Marine Geophysical, Subsea Oil & Gas, Naval Defense and others. Hydracon Subsea pressure switch model 2406-100 is submersible to20,000 feet ocean depth. The pres- sure switch is used on deepwater sub- sea hydraulic control systems. The switch is magnetically actuated, usesonly two wires, no electric power con- sumption, and is supplied withunderwater conductors. HTI Hydroacoustic Technology715 NE Northlake Way, Seattle, WA 98105 Tel: (206) 633-3383 Email: support@ HTIsonar.com http://www.HTIsonar.com President: Dr. John Ehrenberg Vice President: Bruce Ransom Marketing Director: Caroline Mercado Sales Manager: Colleen SullivanGeneral Manager: Patrick NealsonEngineering Director: Anthony Johnson Square Footage: 7,500 square feet Testing capabilities: on-site R&D lab and off-site, floating calibration laboratory/barge equipped with advanced elec- tronics for calibrating split-beam, dual-beam, single-beam transducers, and echo sounders from 38 kHz to 1 MHz. Employees: 34HTI offers underwater acoustics monitoring for fisheries and oceano-graphic resources. Dr. John Ehrenberg, HTIs president, is one of the founding members of hydroa- coustics for fisheries research. In 1970, one of his first tasks at theUniversity of Washington Applied Physics Lab was to help develop the first all-digital echo integrator forfisheries assessment. It was based on a Digital Equipment PDP 8 computer THE MARINE TECHNOLOGY REPORTER 100iXSea designs and manufactures inertial navigation and acoustic positioning systems for underwater vehicles, along with a complete range of seabed map- ping solutions for the geoscientific, hydrographic, offshore and defense industries. Customers include major international players in the oceano- graphic, hydrographic, offshore oil and defense markets. iXSea has a staff of 250+ divided between three manufacturing sites in France and five sales subsidiaries around the world. Registering an average annual growth of 20%, in 2010 iXSea generated sales more than $59m. iXSea is part of the iXBlue group, which provides a range of equipment in the areas of navigation and surveillance, underwater positioning and com- munication, seabed imaging and surveying. In 2010, iXBlue employed 500 people with a turnover of $136.5m. iXSeas ROVINS system is a survey-grade gyrocompass Inertial Navigation System (INS) intended for use in depths up to 3,000 m. Designed for offshore survey and construction activities, ROVINS offers interfaces to standard sur- face and subsea positioning and aiding sensors.RAMSES is an acoustic baseline positioning system that can be combined with an INS system for increased accura- cy and redundancy. The Global Acoustic Positioning System (GAPS) fuses inertial and acoustic technologies to determine the position of an underwater beacon to .2% of range. Other iXSea systems include DELPH, a powerful suite of real-time data acquisition and fully integrated processing and interpretation tools; SHADOWS, the 4th generation mapping sonar, providing more pixels per hour; ECHOES, the only complete range of fully tunable seismic sub-bottom profilers. iXSea55 Avenue Auguste Renoir78160 Marly le Roi, FranceTel: +33 (0)1 30 08 98 88 Fax: +33 (0)1 30 08 88 01www.ixsea.com Alex Pullos, CEO