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Marport Deep Sea Technologies 50 Harbour Drive, St. John's, Newfoundland

Canada A1C 6J4

Tel: 709-757-5757

Email: [email protected] • www.marport.com

CEO & President: Karl Kenny

Executive VP, CTO: Anthony Paul

Executive VP, Sales and Marketing: Oskar Axelsson

Engineering Director: Didier Caute, Vice President of Engineering

Number of Employees: 40

Annual Sales (US$): $7m (projected)

Founded in 1996, Marport has become a leader in the commercial subsea acoustic instrumentation, data processing and visualization business.

The company is a pioneering devel- oper of Software Defined Sonar (SDS) systems and is a designer and manufacturer of high performance subsea acoustic solutions.

Applications include underwater sensing, processing, communications and visualization for customers engaged in commercial fisheries, off- shore energy exploration and retrieval, ocean science and defense.

Marport has recently obtained fund- ing from the Canadian Government to assist in the development of a new class of commercially viable AUV.

Expected completion date is mid- 2009. The AUV will utilize a combi- nation of Marport's SDS technology, underwater modem and 3D acoustic image processing and display soft- ware.

Technology Profile: Marport devel- ops and manufactures software defined acoustic products for subsea applications and is a pioneering developer of Software Defined Sonar (SDS), an adaptive future-proof solu- tion for flexible underwater detec- tion, sensing and communications systems. SDS replaces conventional, hardware based sonar systems with one common platform composed of programmable components that are controlled by software.

A user can change functionality or add optional features to a piece of equipment by changing the software, not the hardware. Functionality is altered by downloading new software directly to the sensor via Bluetooth download and can be done even while at sea.

Markey Machinery 4634 East Marginal Way So., Suite C-140

Seattle, WA 98134

Tel: 206 - 622- 4697

Email: [email protected]

URL: www.markeymachinery.com

Contact Person: Barry Griffins

Founded in 1907, Markey

Machinery Company is in the design and manufacturing of high quality custom deck machinery for work- boat, scientific, and dockside applica- tions. The company established a rep- utation for quality by delivering machinery that is built for the long haul every time. www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 49

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SonTek/YSI Inc. 9940 Summers Ridge Road, San Diego CA.921 Tel: (858) 546-8327

Email: [email protected] www.sontek.com

President and CEO: Rick Omlor Executive Vice President: Gayle Rominger Number of Employees: 250

Founded in 1992, SonTek/YSI manufactures a range of affordable, reliable acoustic

Doppler systems for water velocity measurement in oceans, harbors, rivers, estuaries, and laboratories. Since its invention of the Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter, the SonTek/YSI product line has grown into a diverse, multi-faceted mix of high-technology instrumen- tation. SonTek systems tell customers how fast the water is moving, where it is moving, and even if it is not moving at all. Additionally, just about all its products are offered with an array of ancillary sensors for complete environmental monitoring solutions. In July, 2001, YSI Inc., of Yellow Springs, Ohio, acquired the assets of SonTek and formed a new company, SonTek/YSI, that operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of YSI Inc. The syn- ergistic relationship between SonTek and YSI now makes for an integral solution to monitoring, testing and meas- uring global water ecosystems-our most important life-sustaining resource.

Technology Profile: SonTek's first product, the 10-MHz Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV), was developed in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Waterways Experiment Station. Originally designed for labo- ratory use, the ADV is a single-point, high-resolution Doppler current meter used for detailed studies of 3D veloc- ity fields. The ADV product line includes laboratory and field instruments with options for integrated sensors (tem- perature, pressure, compass/tilt) and autonomous operation.

The SonTek product line expanded to include a wide range of current measurement instruments. The Acoustic

Doppler Profiler (ADP) is a current profiler with profiling ranges of up to 200 m. At its introduction in 1994, the

ADP revolutionized the market for current profilers.

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