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Management Of Complex Overhauls Subject Of Hampton Roads Section Meeting RV Prospector Of Deepsea Ventures Sails On Exploration In Search For Ocean Minerals Attending Hampton Roads Section, SNAME, meeting were, left to right: R. Broad, and J. G. Price, past Section chairmen; Rear Adm. J. A. Brown, Section vice chairman; Comdr. L. D. Ballou, and Lt. Comdr. W. Freakes, authors; G. Guy Via Jr., papers com-mittee; L. C. Robertson Jr., secretary-treasurer, and Alvin E. Cox, Section chairman. The Fort Eustis Officers Club at Fort Eustis, Va., was the location of the recent meeting of the Hamp-ton Roads Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. A paper entitled "Man-aging Complex Ship Overhauls" was written and presented by Comdr. L. D. Ballou of Computer Aided Ship Design Group, NAV-SEC, Washington, D.C., and Lt. Comdr. W. Freakes, planning of-ficer, Office of the Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Re-pair, USN, Newport News, Va. The authors presented a paper covering a subject which receives little attention in the technical pub-lications. The management of com-plex overhauls, and repairs can be included along with overhauls, is of considerable significance because the planning for any one overhaul or repair would not suit the next nor be like the last. This is unlike new construction planning which falls into somewhat of a pattern from one ship to the next. The pa-per discusses various aspects of overhaul planning and makes rec-ommendations for improving per-formance. An organizational ar-rangement is presented for con-ducting complex overhauls, includ-ing a suggestion to counter the ad-verse effects of specialization. The authors urged that statistical data be collected and analyzed in order that improvements can be made in the methods of planning and man-aging complex overhauls and re-pairs. " / P/P 77^ StP/C £?/) VG&Z J3(/7~ S^fHS (//? Toe? John E. Flipse, president of Deepsea Ventures, explaining the program of deepsea ex-ploration for ocean-floor minerals scheduled for the research vessel Prospector. In at-tendance at the briefing, shown above, left to right, front row: John M. Drewry, chief counsel, Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee; T. N. Downing, Virginia congress-man; E. A. Garmatz, chairman, House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and W. B. Spong, Virginia senator. Second row: R. Kaufman, Deepsea Ventures vice-presi-dent; Robert Lent, Tenneco; Martin T. Lee, Tenneco vice-president; William Symonds, Tenneco vice-president, and John Buti, representing Senator Warren Magnuson. The RV Prospector departed on mer parent, the Newport News January 1.5 for the first leg of its series of voyages to continue to ex-plore and evaluate ocean-floor min-erals. Prospector's departure came after an announcement was made in Washington, D.C. by Deepsea Ventures, of the multi-million-dol-lar commercial program leading to the mining of manganese, nickel, cobalt, copper and other constitu-ents from superficial deposits in the deep ocean. The 152-foot, 660-displacement-ton Prospector is the principal sea-going research arm of Deepsea Ventures, Inc., the Newport News oceanographic subsidiary of Ten-neco Inc., Houston, Texas. The an-nouncement was made on board the vessel at a Washington, D.C. Poto-mac River pier. John E. Flipse, president of Deepsea Ventures, announced at the conference the voyage of the Prospector as part of a program that includes commercial mining operations in the early 1970s, based on the lead established by a care-fully selected fund of information and the engineering development, discoveries, patents and personnel acquired from the six-year oceano-graphic research activity of its for-Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com-pany, also a member of the Ten-neco family. "Based on the explor-ation and engineering data bank that we have been compiling dur-ing the past six years, we believe we have the necessary information to carry out a major exploration voyage, with an excellent likeli-hood of discovering and proving large concentrations of high-assay nodules in favorable topographic environments in waters covering a sea floor which we identify as a logical extension of the United States land mass," Mr. Flipse said. RV Prospector sets sail from Newport News, Va., on first leg of exploration voyage. HENSCHEL EXPANDS?Newly opened in Amesbury, Mass., are expanded facilities for Henschel Corporation, makers of shipboard communications equipment. The new build-ing provides more space for executive offices and a larger engineering staff, as well as additional shop area for new automatic machinery. 36 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News