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International Paint Appoints Three Thomas E. Darnell Frederick William J. LeBlanc Jr., president of International Paint Company, Inc., announced the recent appoint-ment of Thomas E. Darnell as vice-president. Mr. Darnell is well known in marine circles, having joined the company in 1941 as a sales and service representative. In recent years Mr. Darnell has served as senior sales executive, maintain-ing contact with the company's customers in the New York area. Frederick A. Ganter has joined the staff of the International Paint Company, Inc., at the company's headquarters, 21 West Street, New York City. Mr. Ganter will assume the responsibilities of assistant sales manager, East Coast. He has served the marine industry in both ,. Ganter Harold R. Jennings Jr. engineering and sales capacities with the Standard Oil Company of California and the Amercoat Corp., respectively. Harold R. Jennings Jr., who joined the company in 1966 as sales representative, has been appointed sales engineer for the Baltimore-Washington area. He will be dom-iciled in Baltimore effective August 1. 1969. Mr. Jennings will work in unison with the company's agent in Baltimore, Maryland Ceiling Co., Inc., which is so ably managed by Messrs. Duke Adams and Ralph Shillingburg. Messrs. Darnell, Ganter and Jen-nings will work under the direction of Thomas M. Reinhardt, executive vice-president of the company. Bahama Oil To Have Largest Offshore Dock In Western World Offshore docking facilities, re-portedly the largest in the western hemisphere, will be built for the Bahamas Oil Refining Co. in the Bahamas, it was announced in Freeport. The installation, which will be built by Micoperi, S.P.A. of Milan, Italy, will consist of two jetties located about three quarters of a mile from Borco's refinery site in Freeport's industrial area. The larger of the two jetties will be capable of accommodating tankers in excess of 300,000 dwt, according to Borco officials. SPECIALLY DESIGNED SAND BARGE?Technical Sands, Inc. of Moss Point, Miss., has placed in service a 120-foot by 30-foot by 7-foot 3-inch barge built by Conrad Indus-tries of Morgan City, La. The barge's specially designed rakes will keep the head of the barge up and out of the water under a heavy load of sand. The barge was designed by Fred Wood Jr., manager of Technical Sands, Inc., and Parker Conrad, owner of Conrad Industries. The barge is for use in the movement of sand from sand pits along the Pascagoula River to Moss Point where it is then removed and stockpiled. The barge has a special gate and pin system for easy access to the dredged sand. Honeywell Introduces Position Indicator For Offshore Works Open auxiliary control panel of the RS-505 shows the normally covered controls and status indicators used for occasional adjustments and for selecting backup modes. Only four pushbutton switches are required for normal operation of the unit. The two blank switches in the cluster on the face of the unit are for optional riser angle indicator and subsea precision posi-tioner operation. An accurate, low-cost acoustic ship-position indicator designed to meet the stringent position require-ments of offshore drilling opera-tions was introduced by Honey-well, Inc.'s Marine Systems Center of Seattle, Wash, at the Offshore Technology Conference held in Houston, Texas. Designated the RS-5, this unit also is applicable to a variety of other commercial marine activities such as coring, surveying, search and salvage operations. First de-liveries are scheduled to be made about mid-year. "The device accurately monitors and displays a vessel's surface posi-tion relative to a pinger on the ocean floor," said I. G. Raudsep, marine product planning manager at the Marine Systems Center. For offshore drilling operations, the optional capabilities of the RS-5 can include marine riser-angle indication and highly accurate re-entry guidance. The RS-5 can also provide sway, surge, roll and pitch data for vessel motion recording. Recent experience indicates such data to be essential for safe drilling will supervise the marketing of aluminum for commercial and mili-tary ships and boats, and also yachts. Mr. Holtyn had been marine pro-ject director for Reynolds product development division since joining the firm in 1957. He was involved in all major marine programs in-cluding development of the first aluminum barges, the Navy's 165-foot gun boats and construction and lengthening of the world's larg-est aluminum ship, the 306-foot Sacal Borincano. He has been ac-tive in the development of technical data for aluminum construction and has authored many articles on the subject. Mr. Holtyn received a bachelor of civil engineering degree from Marquette University. While em-ployed at the Bureau of Ships, he continued studies in naval archi-tecture at George Washington University. He is a former naval officer, a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engi-neers, the American Society for Metals, and the American Society of Naval Engineers. Reynolds Metals Promotes C.H. Holtyn Chester H. Holtyn has been pro-moted to the newly created posi-tion of market manager, marine in-dustry, Reynolds Metals Com-pany, Richmond, Va. The promotion was announced by Warren W. Caskie, director of the firm's defense markets. Mr. Caskie said the new position was established because of aluminum's growing importance in the marine industry. In his new position, Mr. Holtyn operations in demanding environ-ments, according to MSC officials. "Position accuracy of better than one percent of water depth permits minimizing stresses on the costly marine riser systems used in off-shore drilling," said Mr. Raudsep. "Adequate margins of safety can thus be maintained." By accurately indicating the position of a ship with respect to sea floor or moving subsea equipment, the RS-5 can also improve the efficiency of sal-vage, submersible operations, and oceanographic research tasks. Simplicity and ease of operation of the unit is indicated by the fact that only four pushbutton switches provide the operator with all nor-mally needed capabilities for oper-ation and system self-test, the com-pany said. Major components of an RS-5 system are a subsea pinger and a shipboard system including an ar-ray of hydrophones, a control-in-dicator unit and a signal-processor unit. Standard pingers for the RS-5 have a life of 150 days and are suitable for drilling operations in water depths of up to 1,500 feet. Optional pingers are available for greater depths and longer-term uses. An expanded version of the RS-5. the RS-505, which incorporates complete system redundancy for long-term applications requiring maximum assurance of uninter-rupted position data, also is avail-able. In the expanded system, each essential element is backed up by a built-in standby element. "The RS-505 provides two inde-pendent sets of position outputs," said Mr. Raudsep. "The system monitors itself by a continuous comparison of these co-ordinate sets." All components of the RS-5 and RS-505 undergo a "burn-in" test before delivery to assure reliability. For ease of maintenance at sea, built-in self-test provisions enable the operator to isolate any mal-function quickly. Once identified, a faulty electronic module may be replaced with a plug-in spare. The RS-505 incorporates an automatic switching capability that will by-pass a faulty processor channel and shift to one that is functioning properly. Additional featu res of the sys-tem include a high data rate with new position information computed 10 times per second, permitting any position deviation to be sensed im-mediately. The operating frequency range of the RS-5?45 to 55 kHZ? was selected to avoid interference by low frequency drilling and ma-chinery noise. The technique and components used in the RS-5 have been proven at sea in other Honeywell systems including the RS-3 acoustic posi-tion indicator in worldwide use on offshore drilling vessels. Further information regarding the RS-5 position indicator may be obtained from the marine products manager, Honeywell Marine Sys-tems Center, 5303 Shilshole Ave. N.W., Seattle. Wash. 98107. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News