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MTR MTR 100 100BIRNS has supported the deep sub-mergence oceanic community with products that deliver everything from faster, more robust communication to brilliance in the murky depths. The company?s contributions in the ma- rine market began in the 1950s when it was asked to develop subsea systems for the US Navy for the highly classi-  ed Polaris underwater missile ejec- tion project and later for Sealab. Today BIRNS is relied upon to provide pow- erful lighting solutions, from halogen to LED, as well as unique technolo-gies like the BIRNS Titan, an intensely bright 4,000W, 380,000 lumen hydrar- gyrum medium-arc iodide (HMI) light-ing system created for the Costa Con-cordia salvage project. In 1990, BIRNS launched its Connector Division in an- swer to increasing customer demand. BIRNS? high performance connector lines quickly garnered major popular- ity, and the company went on to en- gineer highly successful lines like the 6km rated BIRNS Millennium range. These miniature, high-density metal shell connectors set the benchmark for elevated bandwidth delivery, and fea- ture con gurable inserts for both high (= 3.6kV) and low (= 600 V) voltage. BIRNS now leads the industry in  ber optics, with typical loss for cable as-semblies of <.5 dB. The company spe- cializes in cable assemblies integrating Electro-Opto-Mechanical (EOM) ca-pabilities, which deliver huge amounts of power, data and signal, and provide load strengths of >50,000 lbs. Re-cently, BIRNS was called upon to de- velop a set of ABS certi ed  ber optic penetrators for a manned submersible. The robust penetrators were custom overmolded and featured low inser- tion loss of < .2dB and high return loss of >35dB. The certi cation for opti- cal penetrators was new territory for ABS, so the organization worked with BIRNS to develop rules for witnessing the testing of the new design. Catalina Sea Ranch, LLC, headquar- tered at Terminal Island in the Port of Los Angeles, California, has secured the  rst permit for offshore aquaculture in U.S. Federal waters from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which was unanimously approved by the Califor- nia Coastal Commission. This 100- acre project will produce 2.5 million pounds of sustainable shell sh grown 30 ft. under the water surface six miles offshore Huntington Beach, California. This venture also supports the goals of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), establishing a framework to allow sustainable do- mestic aquaculture to contribute to the U.S. seafood supply. Catalina Sea Ranch?s monitoring pro- gram, employing Verizon?s wireless net- work and cloud services for transmitting scienti c data, will commence during the summer of 2014. The following re- search institutions will be analyzing the data: The Wrigley Institute for Environ- mental Studies, Scripps Institution for Oceanography, Southern California Ma- rine Institute, California State University Long Beach, Ocean Studies Network, National Ocean Tracking Network, NO- AA?s Integrated Ocean Observing Sys- tem, NOAA?s National Marine Fisheries Service Shell sh Aquaculture Labora- tory in Milford and NOAA?s Southwest Fisheries Science Center. BIRNS, I NC. - CELEBRATING 60 YEARS BIRNS, I NC. - CELEBRATING 60 YEARS CATALINA SEA RANCHCATALINA SEA RANCH1720 Fiske Place 1720 Fiske Place Oxnard, CA 93033 Oxnard, CA 93033 T: 805-487-5393 T: 805-487-5393 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] W: www.birns.com W: www.birns.com CEO: Eric Birns CEO: Eric BirnsThe Case: The Case: BIRNS, Inc. is an ISO 9001:2008 certi ed global leader in the design and manufacturing of high performance connectors, cus-tom cable assemblies and lighting systems. 2014 marks the company?s 60th anniversary of serving the in- dustry and providing technologi- cally advanced solutions trusted in some of the planet?s most demand- ing environments. 820 South Seaside Avenue, 820 South Seaside Avenue, Terminal Island, CA, USA 90731 Terminal Island, CA, USA 90731 T: +1 562 544 7410 T: +1 562 544 7410 E: [email protected] E: [email protected]:www.catalinasearanch.com W:www.catalinasearanch.com CEO/President: Philip Cruver CEO/President: Philip Cruver No. Of Employees: 6 No. Of Employees: 6 The Case: The Case: Catalina Sea Ranch is developing the ?First Offshore Shell sh Ranch in U.S. Federal Waters? which will be monitored by independent scien- tists and research institutions. 18 MTRJuly/August 2014 MTR #6 (18-33).indd 18MTR #6 (18-33).indd 187/31/2014 9:53:43 AM7/31/2014 9:53:43 AM