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easy to set-up with a removable, instrumented center sheave. All ten- siometers are built of tool steel with a marine grade coating and can operate in a temperature range of -20°C to +70°C. MTNW’s new tensiometers are installed with NPCC, Frontier,

TransOcean, and Ombak Marine

Group.

Multi-Electronique (MTE) Inc.

Quebec, Canada

Tel: (418) 724-5835

Email: info@ multi-electronique.com www.multi-electronique.com

CEO: Jacques Saint-Pierre

Facility: Located in the Quebec maritime center on the shore of the St-Lawrence River

Square Footage: 3,200 sq. ft.

Employees: 12

Multi-Electronique (MTE) Inc. is an active firm in the electronic field.

The firm activities include the design and manufacture of electronic equip- ment. Over the years, its work has given the firm the opportunity to develop an expertise in the oceano- graphic equipment field. The

AURAL is the archetypal underwater sound recorder used by the scientist community all over the world. It is designed to record underwater sounds, pressure and water tempera- ture over a period up to a year with total autonomy. Two pieces of soft- ware included with the device are intended to configure it and retrieve embedded information in the record- ings after deployment. The AURAL is available in three lengths for short, medium and long deployment (respectively 16, 64 and 128 batter- ies).

NortekUSA 222 Severn Ave., Annapolis MD 21403

Tel: (410) 295-3733

Email: inquiry@ nortekusa.com www.nortekusa.com

General Manager: Eric Siegel

NortekUSA, a subsidiary company of Nortek AS, was formed in 1998 to provide sales and technical support for the Nortek acoustic Doppler cur- rent meters, profilers and velocime- ters used to measure currents and waves in the ocean, lake, river and laboratory. The NortekUSA office is located in Annapolis, Maryland and provides customer support and tech- nical services for clients in the western hemisphere, particularly the US and

Canada. The subsidiary also assists its parent company in product develop- ment. NortekUSA provides techni- cian staff in the Annapolis office and technical sales representatives on the

East Coast, West Coast, and Gulf communities.

Ocean Server Technology 151 Martine St., Fall River MA 02723

Tel: (508) 678-0550

Email: [email protected] www.ocean-server.com

President: Bob Anderson

OceanServer Technology, Inc. is a privately held company, established in 2003 to build man-portable

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), three axis digital compasses and high performance Lithium Ion battery solutions. The affordable

Iver2 AUV is a commercial vehicle used by customers around the globe for sensor development, water quality surveys, sub-surface security and gen- eral research. Vehicles are commonly equipped with Side Scan Sonar (SSS),

Doppler Velocity Logs (DVLs),

Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) sensors, Multi- beam Imaging sonar and camera sys- tems.

Oceanic Consulting Corporation

St. John’s, NL, Canada

Tel: (709) 722-9060 www.oceaniccorp.com oceanic@ oceaniccorp.com

Headquartered in St. John’s,

Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada,

Oceanic Consulting Corporation provides contract research services in hydrodynamics and arctic engineer- ing to the international marine indus- try. The firm is internationally recog- nized for its expertise in the areas of

Arctic and ice engineering, vortex

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