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people & companies

Greenwood Joins

Cortland/PSR

Puget Sound

Rope said that

Michael

Greenwood has joined

Cortland/Puget

Sound Rope as

Technical Sales

Manager. He has more than 34 years in the rope industry, beginning with the family rope company, Tubbs Cordage

Company of San Francisco in 1976.

For the last 24 years he has been in sales and sales management with

Samson Rope Technologies.

Greenwood’s past positions includ- ed, Western Regional Sales Manager,

National Sales Manager, Director of

Sales Commercial Marine and final- ly Director of New Product

Development.

NRC Canada Orders

OceanServer AUV

OceanServer Technology said that the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada took delivery of a new AUV. The Iver2 AUV, equipped with OceanServer’s dual port camera system, side scan sonar and backseat driver/remote helming capability will be used in a broad range of upcoming research initiatives. The

EP42 Expandable Payload (EP) plat- form includes a dedicated CPU with disk to enable the installation of a user-selected operating system, sen- sor drivers and behavioral software.

In addition, the EP vehicle ships with a well-documented Application

Protocol Interface (API) with select vehicle command options to permit backseat driver control of the Iver2.

Tritech Tools Assist

Winning SAUC-E Teams

Tritech International supported several successful AUV teams at the recent Student Autonomous

Underwater Challenge Europe (SAUC-E), in La Spezia, Italy.

SAUC-E challenges multi-discipli- nary teams of aspiring student engi- neers to design and build subsea vehicles capable of performing autonomous missions in an under- water environment.

The competition encourages stu- dent engineers to consider underwa- ter technology and its future possi- bilities, as well as build closer links with organisations involved in underwater robotics. Tritech sensors enhanced the capabilities of compet- ing Autonomous Underwater

Vehicles (AUVs), specifically designed and built for the challenge.

In first place, the University of

Girona’s (Spain) winning Sparus

AUV integrated a Micron DST imaging sonar, Tritech’s ultra com- pact mechanical scanning sonar.

Kongsberg Selected for

Alaska Region Research

Kongsberg Maritime will supply a suite of acoustic systems, including multibeam and scientific echosounders for the Alaska Region

Research Vessel (ARRV), R/V

OMA Academy Kicks

Starts Trainees

Academy Director, David Martin (center) with the six trainees.

Six trainees from coastal commu- nities in the South West started their new careers this week as

Offshore Marine Academy kicked off its first training program. The

Academy, an independent organi- zation within the Offshore Marine

Management (OMM) group of companies, spent weeks interview- ing and short-listing candidates aged between 18 and 25 for the upcoming Academy courses and the final candidates will now join the 12-month intensive Bristol- based course.

Chairman at RESON

A recent change in RESON’s board of directors will place

Michael Brock as the new

Chairman of the Board of

Directors. Brock has a background as M.Sc in acoustics and comes to this position with a wealth of knowledge and experience includ- ing terms as CEO of BK medical;

Divisional Director at Brüel &

Kjær Sound & Vibration

Measurement; and Managing

Director at GN Otometrics.

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