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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 19sub-bottom profiling. ? GeoSim Global Sim Card reported very high levels of interest in its machine to machine (M2M) global data and telematics service. ? BMT ARGOSS announced its latest research project in partnership with Reading University and OceanExpert Ltd.? EIVA and AML Oceanographic (formerly Applied Microsystems) signed a distributor agreement with the aim of EIVA reselling the AML Oceanographic product line; additionally EIVA was appointed representative of Teledyne Gavia. ? Surrey based Planet Ocean Ltd. and its Canadian princi- pal, the newly launched Ocean Sonics Ltd, made delivery of the very first ic-Listen-HF, High Frequency Smart Hydrophone to Dr Merin Broudic of Swansea University at a small ceremony on its stand. ? AXYS Technologies Inc. signed Fabricom (part of the GDF Suez operation) as its exclusive agent for marine product sales in Belgium; and also announced that RWE Innogy GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) has invested in a TRIAXYS Directional wave and currents buoy. ? Sonardyne International Ltd. announced the creation of a new joint venture company with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The spinout company, called Lumasys, is to launch the first commercially available sub- sea optical communication system, BlueComm. ? Coda Octopus Products and the world's largest marine electronic equipment rental company, Seatronics, signed an agreement with an initial investment worth over $1.5 million to increase the number of Echoscope systems available for rental worldwide through a joint Technology Access Program, (TAP). ? iXBlue, France signed an agreement with CDL Ltd, the UK's Aberdeen-based subsea engineering specialist, for the supply of 50 FoG-based IMUs. Before Oceanology International got underway, a new conference ? Catch the Next Wave ? was held at The Royal Institution taking a long term view of the capabilities and disruptive technologies that will shape future ability to explore, understand, predict and exploit the oceans. The day-long conference, on the eve of the exhibition and con- ference at ExCeL, featured presentations by global experts on key disruptive technologies and presentations from senior members of the marine community focussing onwhere these technologies are emerging in the marine sec- tor. Fittingly, as the man who has designed and built more than 60 manned vehicles used for ocean science and industry, and most recently, a microsubmersible destined to travel to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, Graham Hawkes, who delivered the opening keynote address at Catch the Next Wave , joining such luminaries as Don Walsh (once again in the news with the Mariana Trench successful dive by James Cameron ); Sylvia Earle, Explorer in Residence, National Geographic; Vince Cardone of Oceanweather; Jim Baker who was Administrator of NOAA and is now working for the Clinton Foundation; Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute and last years winner Ian Gallett of the SUT. Two other presenta- tions were made that day. Garry Mardell, who recently Perennial powers drew crowds