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Tel: (561) 732-4368; Fax: (561) 732-6984 xcuse me for stating the obvious, but the age of robotics is here and now.

Advances in robotics are quickly removing people from some of the dirtiest

PUBLISHER and most dangerous jobs, inserting vehicles, sensors and systems where no

John C. O’Malley [email protected] man has gone, or would like to go. Looking at the beleaguered energy sector

Ealone, according to a recent Bloomberg report the energy downturn elimi- nated nearly 440,000 jobs globally. As energy prices start to rebound it is estimated that

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Gregory R. Trauthwein nearly one-third to one-half of these jobs will be lost forever, as robotics and automation [email protected] continues to reduce the needed physical headcount on rigs, for example. This reliance on

Managing Editor automation extends to the subsea sector, as vehicles of every shape, size and price point

Eric Haun gain capability and con? dence among a growing legion of users. [email protected]

There has been a natural progression of “clusters” of subsea excellence around the globe,

Contributing Writers and to start 2017 we look at the Atlantic Canada region. I have been privileged to know

Kira Coley, United Kingdom and work with many individuals and organizations from industry and academia from this

Capt. Edward Lundquist, USN (Ret.)

Tom Mulligan, Ireland world region, and from all that I have seen they work collectively as a cluster as seamlessly

Claudio Paschoa, Brazil as any other in the world.

William Stoichevski, Norway

For insight and overview we visited with Jim Hanlon, CEO of the Institute for Ocean

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Research Enterprise (IORE), starting on page 28. Our sincere thanks to Hanlon not only [email protected] for his time, but for his candor and unvarnished insights in discussing drivers in the region, as well as discussion on some recent developments designed to bring the Atlantic Canada

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Nicole Ventimiglia brand faster, further to the global subsea community.

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