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and underwater terrain features.

FarSounder, Inc.

Warwick RI

Tel: 401-784-6700

Email: [email protected] www.farsounder.com

President/CEO: Cheryl M. Zimmerman

VP Sales & Marketing: Captain Ian Bowles

Test Capabilities: 1,250 sq. ft. tank testing facility

FarSounder is a marine electronics manufacturer specializing in sonar systems. With unique patented tech- nology, the company is challenging the boundaries and furthering the advancement of the practical uses that sonar can have. The Company is well known for its advanced long range 3D Forward Looking Sonars that are revolutionizing marine navigation and now the same unique technology is being applied to underwater securi- ty, for fixed and floating assets.

Navigation data is provided in a 3D display presentation with an intuitive user interface and significant fields of view. Flexible mounting methods allow for integration on both surface and sub-surface vessels and along waterside perimeters. The company is also working on a high speed sonar project for ONR for a system that would provide sensing and obstacle detection out to significant ranges, capable of very high speed operation and suitable for installation on high speed 11-meter RHIBs.

Fiomarine

Tasmania 7010 Australia

Tel: +61 3 6272 6167

Email: [email protected] www.fiomarine.com

CEO: John Fiotakis

Engineering Director: Mike Shegog

Fiomarine secures and retrieves underwater equipment and data.

After supplying to the Defence mar- ket for more than years, 2009 saw

Fiomarine successfully enter the

Marine Research and Oil & Gas industries. It has enlisted the help of a number of international agents to promote its Fiobuoy, which now has users in China, Canada, South Africa,

Singapore, Scotland and the U.S.

Fiomarine's signature product is the

Fiobuoy, an all-in-one system that incorporates an acoustic release, marker, floatation, retrieval line and line storage. Fiobuoys will secure and retrieve underwater equipment used in subsea construction, engineering, hydrographic, oceanographic or geo- physical research.

MTR 100

Australian Hydrographic Service - adcp tripod & fiobuoy.

Seabotix 2877 Historic Decatur Road, Suite 100, San Diego CA

Tel: (619) 450-4000

Email: Info@ SeaBotix.com • www.SeaBotix.com

President: Donald Rodocker • Marketing Director: Jesse Rodocker

Sales Manager: Sean Newsome • Engineering Director: Sheldon Rubin

Square Footage: 18,000 sq. ft.

Testing Capabilities:

Facility on water, various pressure pots, dark room, test tank

Employees: 55 • Annual Sales (US$): 8.3m

SeaBotix Inc. manufactures and supplies

MiniROVs. The company's products are continually improved and new technologies developed as evident in the newly released vLBV. The SeaBotix

LBV has been the benchmark small ROV system with the vLBV set to define the Vectored ROV market. Stable in water design and mass as well as a multitude of optional items. Used global- ly by more than 750 operators the SeaBotix line of MIniROVs have proven their worth. Including deep water recoveries, mili- tary ops, maritime security, search and rescue, scientific research and many more.

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