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£m designed to work in conjunction with DBC's 50- >erson liferafts. The design also incorporates a gravi- y operated system that has no reliance on electrical or lydraulic power.

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Pains-Wessex Introduces The

SOS Rescue SART

Pains-Wessex Safety Systems Inc. is now offering the SOS Rescue SART (Search and Rescue Transponder), a 9

GHz receiver/transmitter, which is com- pliant with the latest GMDSS and IMO requirements. When activated, the SART will react to pulses from any standard X-band marine radar operat- ing in the 9.2-9.5 GHz band.

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Rutter Technologies Exhibits

New Maritime Black Box

Canadian-based Rutter Technologies, exhibited its new Voyage Data Recorder (VDR), a safety and man- agement tool for the maritime industry, at Oslo's Nor-

Shipping '99. The VDR records all primary navigation information of a ship and has a unique playback and display feature so that recorded data can be down- loaded on a PC via a high-speed LAN connection and a multimedia software package.

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Instructional Videos Released on Maritime

Medical Emergencies

A joint venture including Maritime Health Services,

John Sabella & Associates Inc., and Walport USA have introduced, Lessons From Real Life at Sea, a series of instructional videos on maritime medical emergencies.

The incidents in the video are based on actual events drawn from the case files of Maritime Health Services

Inc., a Seattle firm, which provides professional med- ical consultations to vessels at sea.

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SEMCO Upgrades Fire

Extinguisher System

SEMCO Maritime's

SAFE, a water mist fire extinguishing system, was upgraded in order to fit a single nozzle in cabins of up to 18 sq. m., compared with the previous installation capabil- ity of 12 sq. m. SEM-SAFE also uses water at a much lower rate, for example 16.8 liters/min. per nozzle for an 18 sq. m. cabin nozzle, com- pared to 240-320 liters/min. for each conven- tional nozzle.

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Unitor To Supply MED-Approved

Firefighting Equipment

Unitor, Norway's international ships service specialist, is believed to rank as one of the first to supply shipboard firefighting equipment that meets the European Union's (EU) type approval for its new Marine Equipment Directive (MED.)

The MED requires approval of marine equip- ment used onboard ships, which are registered in 15 member states of the EU, including Nor- way and Iceland.

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Viking Liferaft Meets Latest

Safety Standards

Viking Life-Saving Equipment's 100-person

SEM-

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Prosar Technologies Provides For Those In Distress

Recognized as one of the fastest grow- ing companies in the maritime and avia- tion survival industries, Prosar Technolo- gies leads the way with the finest in

Search and Rescue support and signaling equipment. The company holds technical approvals and patents in a wide variety of products including water activated PFD and raft lights, personal strobe lights, emergency position indication beacons (EPIRBS) and emergency locator trans- mitters (ELT), radio direction finders, and search and rescue transponders (SARTS).

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