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IHC Engineering Business (EB), as part of the IHC Merwede group, is a leading designer, manufacturer and developer of offshore and seabed equipment for the offshore oil and gas, defense, submarine telecom and renewable offshore power generating industries. IHC Merwede is a leader in the construction of specialist dredging equipment and complex custom-built offshore vessels. IHC

Merwede's business units are grouped together into three divisions:

Dredging & Mining, Offshore &

Marine, and the group of sector-relat- ed products and services - Technology & Services. As part of the Technology & Services division, EB supports the provision of turnkey vessels with fully integrated equipment packages.

International Submarine

Engineering Ltd. 1734 Broadway Street

Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 2M8

Tel: 604-942-5223

Email: [email protected] www.ise.bc.ca

President: James McFarlane

Vice President: Mike Macdonald

Vice President: James Ferguson

Facilities: 45,000 sq. ft., consisting of ISE and

ISER engineering, manufacturing and administration facilities

Testing Capabilities: In-ground, on-site test tank (45'x15'x15') and 25 meter trials/testing vessel

Number of Employees: 65

Annual Sales (US$): $10 M

International Submarine

Engineering Ltd designs and develops autonomous and remotely operated underwater vehicles as well as a sys- tems integrator of robotic platforms.

Since 1974, ISE has developed and sold Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), Autonomous Underwater

Vehicles (AUVs), Unmanned Surface

Vehicles (USVs) and manned sub- mersibles. While the primary focus is on marine platforms, ISE also builds and supplies manipulators, hydraulic components and tools for use with

ROVs and other robotics systems.

Notable product achievements include the HYSUB series of ROVs, the Theseus AUV, which holds the endurance record for AUVs, the

Explorer Class of AUVs, Shell

SmartPump refuelling robot and the

STM Crew training robot for the

Canadian Space Agency. ISE's equip- ment is found in all sectors of the underwater activity including off- shore, cable maintenance, marine sci- ence and oceanography and naval mine countermeasures.

Technology Profile: ISE's specialty lies in the design and integration of complex systems for the sub-sea industry with a focus on working to provide clients with solutions that address their specific needs. This experience is represented by the 210 underwater vehicles ISE has built and delivered to clients in 20 countries.

Imagenex 209 - 1875 Broadway Street

Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 4Z1 CANADA

Phone: (604) 944-8248 [email protected] www.imagenex.com

Imagenex Technology Corp. was founded in 1988 by pioneers in the development of high resolution sonar.

On an international level, Imagenex is an innovative company that designs and manufactures sonar systems and continues to move forward through ground-breaking advances, with con- tinual support for the customer's needs and demands.

Innomar Technologie GmbH

Schutower Ringstraße 4. D-18069

Rostock, Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)3 81 44 079 0 [email protected] www.innomar.com

Innomar works in the field of devel- opment, production and application of efficient underwater acoustic sys- tems. Innovative technologies, e.g. parametric acoustics, are transferred into new products. The company was founded in 1997 by some engineers after many years of research work at the University of Rostock. The com- pany started with the development of the product line SES-96. This line consists of different system variants of very efficient parametric sediment echo sounders. The systems have been introduced to the international market very well and are being improved with new features continu- ously. The actual models of SES-2000 are including shallow water systems to deep water systems and ROV mounted systems.

IVS 3D 325 Corporate Dr. Suite 175

Portsmouth, NH 03801

Tel: 603- 431-1773 www.ivs3d.com Email: [email protected]

Interactive Visualization Systems' (IVS3D) Fledermaus software suite provides users with a set of interactive 3D visualization tools for data prepa- ration, analysis and presentation.

Fledermaus allows users near real-

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