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76MTRJuly/August2011 include an indoor water tank, pres- sure testing vessel and a new boat- based testing lab, for low frequency testing on Georgian Bay, the largest freshwater bay in the world. Bennett & Associates, L.L.C.5177 Richmond Ave, Suite 1188, Houston, TX 77056Tel: (713) 961-7737 Email: aruderman@ bbengr.com www.bbengr.com Chairman: William T. Bennett, Jr. CEO & President: Jose Vazquez, Ph.D. Marketing Director: Beau Bennett Sales Manager: Greg Castleman, VP Operations & Business DevelopmentEngineering Director: George Petrie Facility: Headquarters: Houston with offices in New Orleans Number of Employees: 40Bennett & Associates, L.L.C., is a naval architecture, design and con- sulting firm that also provides hydro- dynamic and other marine and off-shore related services. The company, founded in 1997 by William T. Bennett, Jr., specializes in the design, modification and construction super- vision of Marine Vessels, Offshore Mobile Drilling and Offshore Production Units. Consultancy serv- ices include engineering, software development, site inspection and project management. The MinDOC deepwater produc- tion unit design is an exclusive prod- uct of Bennett & Associates. MinDOC ATP Titan is the first unit designed to the Post-Katrina require- ments of the Central GoM and com- bines the features of a semisub- mersible with spar deepwater designs. The B-Class Jack Up built by Keppel Offshore & Marine is an example of a cooperative design between a ship- builder and the Bennett team. It fea- tures a cantilever designed to extend up to 100 feet and skid off the drillpackage. FarSounder, Inc.43 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick, RI 02888 Tel: (401) 784-6700 E-Mail: info@ farsounder.com www.farsounder.com CEO: Cheryl M. ZimmermanVice President of Engineering: Matthew J. Zimmerman Signal Processing Engineering Director: Dr. Alexander Yakubovskiy Facility: 2 facilities, RI, USANumber of Employees: 12-14FarSounder designs, manufactures and markets 3D sonar systems for the commercial, recreational, defense and homeland security markets, interna- tionally as well as domestically. FarSounder products can be used to study the ocean, for AUV navigation and missions, for fisheries research and by-catch reduction, dredging operations and for Forward Looking Multi Beam (FLMB) surveying. Products range from long-range 3D THE MARINE TECHNOLOGY REPORTER 100(Continued on page 80)