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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 39, the cells are ? lled to the top with mineral oil. Charge/recharge continues. The second line (green) shows the capacity on the thirteenth discharge, down to 33Ah. The third line (black) shows the capacity on the seventeenth discharge, further reduced to 29Ah. Starting voltages are all above 12v, while
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 37charging cycles, presumably due to gas generation during recharge. A battery capacity test, described below with the West Mountain Radio CBA V, can be done to replicate this experiment yourself. (See Figure 7.) ? Gel cell Sealed Lead-Acid (SLA) batteries substitute a gel-type electrolyte for the liquid
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 36, a On March 26, 2012, James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHAL- 35% sulphuric acid and 65% water solution, will spill. They LENGER submersible and ocean lander DOV MIKE demon- can be exposed to high ambient pressure, and can be mounted strated the practicality of this approach, diving the Challenger outside the
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35requiring lightweight and high-power drains. They COMMON BATTERIES IN MARINE APPLICATIONS Certain chemistries have found wide use in the marine ? eld do require built-in protection against overcharging and over for their availability, energy density, ease of handling, and discharging. They have a relatively
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 7.noaa.gov 1-833-SAIL-USA (724-5872) and survey ships! - Detects all iron and steel Get your next salvage - Locate pipelines, anchors and job done faster chains with a JW Fishers Proton 5 Magnetometer. - Locate buried objects NOT found with sonar - Separates into 2 parts for easy transport -
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 2. By Kevin Hardy 40 Oi ‘24 ‘That’s a Wrap’ From new product debuts -- cables and connectors, vehicles, sub bottom pro? lers 40 -- to many deals done, Oceanology International 2024 was a great success. 4 Editor’s Note 6 Authors & Contributors 6 Editorial Board 16 Tech Feature: IMR 47 Classi
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35reality SimFlex4 tug W changed us. Half the people surveyed and ship simulator will offer unprecedented model accuracy in a 2022 King’s College London study said that they feel like as well as enhanced line forces calculations for pilot training their attention span is shorter than it used to be
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28locations in the Paci? c and Indian oceans. To support the Marines, we have ten container and roll on/roll off ships, two expeditionary transfer docks (ESDs) and four expeditionary sea base ships. We also have two offshore petro- leum distribution system ships that help move fuel ashore. Another
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 13. A Focus on sustainable electricity generation.2. methanol plug-in hybrid may not be the most ef? cient approach Provide the smallest device that can do the job.3. today, but it holds the promise of eventually being carbon zero. Electrify everything.4. Don’t get me wrong, I am an ef? ciency freak
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 34. “We really had to think through how to make sure Notably, the eWolf is an expensive tug. Crowley of? cials we have separation of cables, more so than we do on a declined to disclose a dollar ? gure, but said the new vessel traditional tug.” The eWolf turned out to be a learning experience for all costs
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 27Feature Shipbuilding Loumania Stewart / U.S. Coast Guard focus), which require very different business systems to be in place. “We’ve been able to do both,” he said, noting that having systems in place for government jobs makes East- ern Shipbuilding “move-in ready for the Navy and other DOD agencies
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 26a com- handle), handling “…government and commercial work, plicated business. primarily newbuilds, but also repairs,” talked about the In a session on the domestic shipbuilding marketplace, balance between government versus private-sector work at Marine Money’s late-November 2023 conference held in for
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 15force. that optimizes both economic ef? ciency and also environ- The other thing I’ll say is I think it’s really important to mental ef? ciency? What do we need to be doing now to always have what I would call a bifocal vision. Obviously, make sure that we’re not handicapping or stymieing? we’ve got
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 14automated systems. This is an issue priorities for the coming six to 12 months and that Congress thought that it addressed in the last Coast what’s being done to address them? Guard Authorization bill, the last National Defense Au- We’ve hit on some of them. If I had to take it up to a thorization Act. Unfortunat
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 13Q&A We’ve still got some work to do. Despite the new guid- Looking across the industry, what are some ance, we are seeing differences in the way that the Coast other important regulatory issues that AWO is Guard is applying crewing and life-saving requirements to currently paying attention to? ATBs from
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 12Insights century technology in 2024.” That’s an area of focus. industry. We want to do that in a realistic way. These are We also want to make sure that we have workers on our great careers where a hardworking person can make a six- vessels who are ? t for duty. One of the things that we have ? gure
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 11an area of concern across maritime supply chains, and recently the Coast Guard has been tasked with creating and enforcing maritime cyber standards. What do you hope to see from these standards as they are drafted and put to use? Two key watchwords here are going to be risk-based and scalable. Everybody
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43for experience challenges accessing medi- medical provider recruitment and re- The Author cal care. Speci? cally, 17 of 43 Coast tention challenges. Doing so would Guard clinics were located in medi- help the Coast Guard determine what, MacLeod cally underserved areas, which indicate if any, actions
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 11down to a smaller size, and especially a smaller width relieves waterfront infrastructure footprints and costs. that issue. One may argue that one human with a bigger truck These 5-foot wide units will zip through the city much faster can deliver more cargo than one human with a smaller truck, and
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 10lowest hanging fruit is in the last few miles. This is where a large amount of carbon is expended in delivering small A parcels to stores and consumers’ doors. This is particularly apparent in dense pack cities like New York City, where delivery vans clog streets and water cross- ings. The NYC Economic
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 30said, and it took a long time to achieve In some cases, existing vessels can be used as a more ? - mass scale, producing levelized costs that are coming down. nancially viable option. Josh Diedrich, managing director “That’s a long road to go down. And you’re also facing this at WindServe Marine, said
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 14Insights to the organization’s team of more than 75 expert instruc- without paying that price in blood and oil.’ They get to do tors. “We bring in the specialists who know the material things they would not normally get to do, and then they can through and through.” re? ne those skills in what we know
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 43ROV components may require maintenance or replacement class ROVs are becoming more agile and versatile. In- based on historical performance, minimizing downtime and re- novations in thruster technology and control systems en- ducing maintenance costs. AI will revolutionize ROV technol- able them to navigate
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 41problems earlier. and the public sphere. “To give people real purpose and al- “Our remit is to discover indisputable evidence and to convey low them to do something truly positive about the biggest that in every way, shape and form we can in near real time,” he crisis humanity has faced will hopefully