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Coast Diving Service, Inc. "Excellence Under Water"

Tel: (310) 547-0955 Fax: (310) 547-0970 service diving company, specialising in in-water ship services: • Hull cleanings • Propeller polishing and repairs • Underwater welding and burning • Non-Destructive Testing • Paint coating surveys • Cofferdam and damage control plug placements

Service to the shipping industry in Los Angeles,

Long Beach, San Diego and Port Hueneme Harbours. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Certified to perform class inspections by: • Det Norske Veritas • American Bureau of Shipping • Bureau Veritas • Class NK • Lloyd's Register • Germanischer Lloyd

H YPACK Hydrographic Software gives you the hydrographic power to lay out survey lines, create plotting sheets, and design cross sectional profiles in a flash. Graphically review your survey data and create new planned lines. Customize vour screen sizes. Input up to nine devices, simultaneously. Have single and multibeam data collection capability at your fingertips. Display and edit tracklines, sounding profiles and text data. Apply tide, draft, heave-pitch-roll and sound velocity corrections.

Plus: Full DXF/DGN Support. Plotting, including smooth sheets. The ability to create cross section profiles of multibeam and longitudinal data. And a complete look at your Volumes, including average end area, prismoidal, contour and TIN models.

HYPACK's Survey Program

HYPACK's TIN Modeling Program (Continued from previous page) president, Offshore

Division. With 110 ves- sels based mainly in the Gulf of Mexico and the Arabian Gulf,

Seabulk Offshore is the company's largest oper- ating unit and is reportedly the third largest operator of off- shore energy support vessels in the Gulf of

Mexico.

Christopher D.

Strong, director of

Finance and treasurer, was promoted to vice president reflecting the increasing importance of Treasury-related functions to the compa- ny's strategy of growth through acquisition.

A. Thomas

Denning, director of

Engineering, was pro- moted to vice president,

Engineering. Mr.

Denning oversees the company's newbuilding programs, including the five Hvide Van

Ommeren Double

Eagle product carriers currently on order at

Newport News

Shipbuilding, and the

Ship Docking Module tractor tug, the first of which is scheduled for delivery by the end of this year.

Steven L. Willrich, vice president of

Hvide's Ocean

Specialty Tankers

Corp. (OSTC) sub- sidiary in Houston, was promoted to senior vice president of OSTC.

OSTC is the marketing arm for the company's five chemical tankers.

China To Launch

Ocean Exploration

Satellite

China plans to launch its first ocean explo- ration satellite in the second half of 1999, an official of the State

Oceanography Bureau said recently.

The satellite would also allow exploration and study of marine organisms, landforms under shallow water, water temperatures and ocean pollutants by distinguishing colors of

Keppel Builds

Bridge Cranes For

Pert Of Singapore

Through its wholly-owned sub- sidiary Keppel Engineering Pte

Keppel Integrated

Engineering Ltd. (KIE), along with Mitsui Engineering and

Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (MES) has completed the first two units of a total of 44 overhead bridge cranes (OHBCs) for the Port of

Singapore Authority's (PSA's) new container terminal at Pasir

Panjang. Incorporating state-of- the-art technology, the OHBC at

Pasir Panjang features an auto- matic crane control system which comprises an automatic position indicating system, automatic travel control system, stack pro- file scanning system and auto- matic fine alignment system.

For more information on Keppel

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