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mercial ? shing vessels, maritime service companies and other oceanic related entities may ? nd economic inclusion within certain projects.

Future employment opportunities for ocean engineers will consist of teams with backgrounds in nanotechnology, aero- space, software, mechanical, electrical, acoustical, industrial, geological, chemical and applied. Employees will work in teams to provide solutions for the following types of projects; • Provide 650 million people with clean water. The ocean can supply these people the water they need. An abun- is ? nding and collecting approximately 5lbs of the unknown dant supply of clean water strengthens people’s health and specimen to determine its medicinal viability. Once the or- prosperity. Building and installing subsea desalination sys- ganic chemistry is understood from the specimen it can then tems in the most needed areas will make up for this shortage.

be in? nitely replicated without ever having to collect more of • Discover medicinal cures from ocean specimens. that specimen.

There is no major effort to discover new cures for the most le- • Clean the ? ve ocean gyres. Most discarded buoyant thal and debilitating diseases, even though past subsea discov- trash in the ocean is collected within these giant gyres. There eries have proven to successfully cure diseases. The challenge is no effective and ef? cient reclamation method to separate www.marinetechnologynews.com

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