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Editorial

Gregory R. Trauthwein

Associate Publisher & Editor

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NEW YORK 118 E. 25th St., New York, NY 10010 016 has started with a decided thud, as many in the industry around the world

Tel: (212) 477-6700; Fax: (212) 254-6271 hold their collective breath and watch closely as the price per barrel for oil sinks

FLORIDA ever lower. While the angst is real and the immediate future is unclear, I see that 215 NW 3rd St., Boynton Beach, FL 33435

Tel: (561) 732-4368; Fax: (561) 732-6984 some – inside and outside of this industry – starting to enter a surreal zone, call- 2ing oil a ‘sunset’ industry and rationalizing that offshore oil and gas may never

PUBLISHER bounce back. I certainly have been wrong in the past and I’m not a gambling man, but if I

John C. O’Malley [email protected] had the money and the interest I’d be more than willing to bet that the oil and gas industry will bounce back with a vengeance, and the hunt for energy resources around and under

Associate Publisher & Editor the waters of our planet will be a substantial and vital industry for generations to come. It’s

Gregory R. Trauthwein not even close to a matter of “if,” rather a white-knuckle ride of “when.” [email protected]

This month I am honored to share with our readers insights from Captain Gregg Bau- mann, U.S. Navy, Supervisor of Salvage & Diving; Director of Ocean Engineering. I met

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Eric Haun

Capt. Baumann last year at the American Salvage Association annual meeting in Stamford, [email protected]

Connecticut, before he and his team embarked on its mission to ? nd the sunken U.S. ? ag ship El Faro. While El Faro steals many headlines, including an early January 2016 feature

Contributing Editors on CBS investigative news show “60 Minutes,” the good works of Capt. Baumann and

Capt. Edward Lundquist, USN (Ret.)

Claudio Paschoa, Brazil

SUPSALV far transcends material that makes 15-minute clips in mainstream media. His

William Stoichevski, Norway team are salvage masters, and I invite you to turn to page 18 for the story on SUPSALV

Production Manager and its contribution to working safely and ef? ciently under the water.

Irina Vasilets [email protected]

As with every edition of MTR, uncovering next-gen advances and emerging technology is the foundation, and I am pleased to share with you two features in this edition that ? t the

Production & Graphic Design bill. Starting on page 30 Kira Coley goes in-depth, as she usually does, on the Ocean Aero

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected]

Submaran vehicle, or as we humbly call it in our headline the “Next Generation of Ocean

Observation.” Immediately following this story, starting on page 34, is Tom Mulligan’s

Manager, Public Relations insightful report on investment at NOCS, speci? cally the opening of a new cutting-edge

Mark O’Malley [email protected] research and technology facility, the National Oceanography Center’s Marine Robotics

Innovation Center in Southampton, England.

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