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Island Ferries since the early 1970s to operate on the 20-minute crossing on the shallow Great South Bay. With an emphasis on economy, efficiency and quick turn-around, there are large mid-ship passenger doors on the main deck. There is indoor seating for 204 passengers on the main deck and outdoor seating on the upper deck for another 183 passengers. The vessel will be powered by three MTU Series 60 diesel engines, delivering a total of 1,800 Bhp at 2,100 rpm and con- nected to ZF550 gear boxes, each turning NiBrAl propellers. Top speed will be 21 knots.

Resolve Salvage & Fire CG

Approved for OPA90

Resolve Salvage & Fire (Americas), the emergency response division of international maritime emergency services contractor Resolve Marine

Group, announced that the U.S.

Coast Guard has approved Resolve to help oil tanker vessel owners comply with new OPA90 requirements. The

USCG has already begun issuing

Interim Operating Authorizations (IOA) for tank vessels that cite

Resolve in their OPA90 Vessel

Response Plans. With an IOA in hand, Resolve client vessels will be permitted to continue carrying petroleum cargoes in U.S. waters as the new, more stringent OPA90 regu- lations have come into effect. Resolve has pre-positioned equipment and personnel in many Captain of the

Port Zones, to rapidly deploy for any tank vessel fire or other marine casu- alty event, anywhere in U.S. waters.

Resolve’s Salvage and Marine

Firefighting coverage is available to tank vessel owners at no charge through 2011.

Resolve Marine/PENCO:

Emergency Response in Hawaii

On Feb. 2, a team of emergency responders from Resolve Marine

Group and Pacific Environmental

Corporation (dba

PENCO)/American Marine

Corporation, demonstrated their marine fire fighting capabilities in

Honolulu Harbor. The trained crew of locally and internationally recog- nized professionals conducted an equipment deployment exercise, uti- lizing pumps and fire fighting moni- tors stored at the PENCO/American

Marine facilities on pier 13, and oper- ated from the deck of the M/V

American Islander.

The exercise was part of a vetting process, whereby the U.S. Coast

Guard in Washington DC and in

Honolulu approved Resolve and

PENCO/American Marine as the only providers of OPA90 Salvage and

Marine Fire Fighting services (SMFF) in the 14th Coast Guard District.

Together, Resolve Marine Group and

PENCO/America Marine meet or exceed the criteria for SMFF providers enumerated in the new reg- ulations.

Harley Marine Expands Service into Gulf

Harley Marine Services has expand- ed its service to the American Gulf by acquiring the former MGI of

Houston, Texas.

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