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Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc.

PO Box 1206

Kailua, HI 96734

Tel: 808-259-8871

Fax: 808-259-8238

Email: [email protected] http://www.makai.com

CEO/President: Dr. Jose Andres

Vice President: Dr. Joseph Van Ryzin

Marketing Director: Reb Bellinger

Engineering Director: Dale Jensen

Facilities: Ocean-side office space and pier

Square Footage: 25,000

Testing Capabilities: dockside laboratory

Number of Employees: 18

Annual Sales (US$): $3.4 M

Founded in 1973, Makai Ocean

Engineering, Inc. is a leading expert in the design and deployment of large deep ocean pipelines and is the maker of the Makai Submarine Planning and Installation Software Suite.

Much of Makai's ocean design work is focused on methods to produce clean, renewable and sustainable energy, such as sea water air condi- tioning (SWAC) and ocean thermal energy con- version (OTEC). Makai's software team continues to improve and expand upon their flagship product

MakaiPlan, which has become the telecommuni- cations industry standard in planning submarine cables. New advances have been made in accurately modeling the shapes of towed arrays from sub- marines and the deploy- ment of autonomous seafloor surveillance sys- tems. A new division has been recently launched to further the company's successful research and development of 3D/4D visualization.

Technology Profile: Makai Ocean

Engineering, Inc. has technology in two fields: large, deep-ocean pipeline design and submarine cable planning and installation. Makai designed the world's deepest large diameter seawa- ter intake pipeline and the deep water intake for the first "deep water cool- ing" project of its kind in the United

States. As fossil fuel costs continue to rise, Makai has been receiving numer- ous contracts from around the world to design pipelines for seawater air conditioning which can result in a 90% reduction in energy consump- tion, as compared to conventional

AC systems. Makai's pipeline team has also received an ONR contract to define the economic feasibility of building floating OTEC plants to produce hydrogen (or alternate) fuel in the near future (Lockheed Martin is a subcontractor). Makai's software division continues to improve upon and expand its flagship submarine cable planning software, MakaiPlan.

In addition, Makai has extended the 3D finite element model used in its submarine cable installation software package, MakaiLay, to include the real-time at-sea modeling and control of towed arrays.

This new technology has applications in the military (submarines and surface ves- sels tow arrays for surveillance and tracking operations) and in the ocean survey industry (surveyors need to monitor and control the location of their underwater tow fish).

Finally, Makai is launching a new 3D/4D visualization

R&D team to expand upon new technology which would allow for four-dimensional data (e.g., medical imaging, atmospheric modeling, groundwater contamination, etc.) to be modeled and visu- alized on single PCs 30 MTR July 2007

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