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Michael J. Stewart Retires

When Marine Technology Reporter visited the Oceans 2014 exhibition in

St. Johns in September we learned that

Michael J. Stewart, a ubiquitous ? gure in the subsea sector for more than four decades, will retire from McArtney ef- fective this month. Stewart has been with

MacArtney for more than 20 years in a variety of forms, made permanent when

MacArtney bought his company MJ

Stewart Associates. “When I ? rst started with the company (MacArtney) we were about $6-7 mil- lion (per year) and now we are more than $100 million,” said Stewart. “It has been a great run, they are a great company; they do a really good job of understanding the business that they are in. MacArtney sees what the customer needs, and then they aim to become the preferred solu- tion. They spend money to make money: they make the investments that they need to make and I think that’s a key why we have grown so fast and stayed pro? table.”

Stewart began his career in the subsea world after graduating from the Unit- “The technology has changed ... But the people are ed States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in 1965. After sailing with the the same.

Bottom line, you have to have people that can

U.S. merchant marine during the Vietnam go to sea, and make this stuff work at sea.”

War, Stewart was lured ashore courtesy of a request from his wife, and a job with

Michael Stewart, a company that was making marine radio facsimile for weather charts, which led to re