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London, will discuss flexibility as the key to oil-spill contingency planning while a German and

American team of experts will look at environmental sensitivity mapping as a means of minimiz- ing the impact of oil spills.

A.C. Hill (Seicon Computer

Services) and Milton Keynes will describe SCOOP, a computer pro- gram to simulate oil spills, while

J.W. Dippner of the Institut fur

Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven will report on the oil drift model,

OIPASIPA.

Conceptual design of and prac- tical experience with vessels for use in containing and combating oil spills will be the subject of two of the papers to be presented.

R. Klimek of ERNO Raum- fahrttechnik and G. Clauss of the

Technische Universitat Berlin will explain the development of an oil skimming and separating system to combat oil spills at sea. Three experts from VWS, Berlin, will report on experimental investiga- tions of the operating mechanism of the Blunk oil skimmer.

Oil-water flow characteristics in front of barriers will be ex- amined in a paper by H.-H Munte of Jastram-Werke. K. Dietzel of

Krefeld will report on the use of polyurethane flexible-foam barriers against oil pollution.

A scientist from the Forsch- ungsinstitut Senckenberg will dis- cuss the influence of crude oil and crude oil dispergents on tidal flat ecology.

A report by R. Leo and B. Nill of Leo Consult GmbH, Bremen, will describe recovery, treatment for re-use, and disposal of oily sludges and debris resulting from drilling and transport spills in the Wadden Sea area.

Coastal Engineering

Twenty-three papers covering such subjects as surveying, mod- els, tidal gauges, new pontooning systems for coastal waters, tidal waves, coastal protection, etc. will be presented at the session on coastal engineering. The confer- ence language for this session will be German only.

Marine Research For

Coastal Engineering

Eight more papers are con- cerned with marine research for coastal engineering. The use of satellites to explore coastal wa- ters will be the subject of a paper by H.G. Gierloff-Emden of the

Universitat Munchen.

D. Schmidt and W. Gerwinski of the Deutches Hydrograph- isches Institut will examine the feasibility of monitoring marine pollution by remote sensing. Spe- cialists from the Forschunsstelle fur Insel- und Kustenschutz will discuss the registration and trans- mission of hydrographic data.

M. Engel from the Universitat

Hamburg will report on hydro- dynamic-numerical investigation of the circulation of the North

Sea, while R. Klochner will dis- cuss modelling and sediment transport of the North Sea.

Scientists from the Deutsches

Hydrographische Institut will ex- amine the application of a nu- merical ocean wave model to hindcast the seastate during dis- asters such as the sinking of the 'Munchen' and the Fastnet race.

Navigational aids for coastal engineering and offshore activi- ties will be the subject of a talk by H.-D. Vogt of Wasser- und

Schiffahrtsdirektion Nord, Kiel.

H.D. Bohm and H.-G. Muller of

Pintsch Bamag Antriebs-und Ver- kehrstechnik will describe meth- ods of supplying power for un- manned equipment carriers in ocean engineering.

Ship Technology

Focusing mainly on energy con- servation, the International Con- gress of Ship Technology (ICST '82) has been organized by the

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We could tell that when the scavenging air pressure rose to 5 psi from a normal 2-4 psi."

To control this problem, the

Ohio River Company had the exhaust ports regularly punched in its eight Fairbanks Morse- powered towboats. This amounted to thousands of dollars a year in labor costs alone. Vessel downtime costs not included!

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Ohio River's M/V

Robert P. Tibolt had its twin 12-cylinder 38D8 1/8's over- hauled while in dry- dock for hull repairs.

The engines had run the last 23 months (15,000 hours) on

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Two years ago, Ohio River put all of its towboats and workboats on

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