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Safeguard Concludes SALVEX

Joint Subsea Ops in Asia

Technip and Subsea 7 signed a MOU whereby their affiliates Technip Oceania and Subsea 7 Singapore will form a jointly operated company for subsea offshore activ- ities in the Asia Pacific region (excluding

India and Middle-East). Technip and

Subsea 7 will bid for and carry out all

EPCIM (engineering, procurement, con- struction, installation, commissioning and/or maintenance) contracts for the sub- sea production and transportation of oil and gas within the Asia Pacific region, including the supply of flexible pipe via the

Technip/Subsea 7 joint venture.

Bluefin Wins BPAUV Contract

Bluefin Robotics won a $6.6m cost-plus- award-fee/cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for

Battlespace Preparation Autonomous

Undersea Vehicle (BPAUV) design and development. The BPAUV is a system capa- ble of bottom-mapping and gathering other oceanographic data to support the Littoral

Combat Ship Mine Warfare Mission

Module. The BPAUV is intended as an autonomous unmanned system capable of meeting clandestine intelligence, surveil- lance, reconnaissance, and survey require- ments. Work will be performed in

Cambridge, Mass. news

USS Safeguard (ARS 50) completed the first Salvage Exercise (SALVEX) with the

Indian Navy on September 24, after con- ducting 12 days of combined dive exercises off of India's western coast city of Cochin and its surrounding waters.

U.S. Navy divers worked closely with their Indian counterparts at SALVEX, a combined classroom and in-port training with at-sea dives and salvage exercises. In the course of two weeks, Safeguard crew members toured Indian training facilities, completed familiarization dives on

Safeguard's dive system with Indian divers, conducted in-harbor salvage exercises and salvaged the wreckage of an Indian navy air- craft.

Safeguard (ARS 50) is a forward deployed rescue and salvage ship operating out of

Sasebo, Japan, and is part of Task Force 76, the Navy's only forward-deployed amphibi- ous force.

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