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Alcoa Marine Forms

New Offshore Division

Alcoa Marine Corporation has announced the formation of a new division, Alcoa Marine Offshore

Services Co., to offer geotechnical and geophysical marine field serv- ices, primarily to the oil industry.

The new division, to be head- quartered in Houston, Texas, will use the services of Alcoa Sea- probe, a 243-foot marine research and coring vessel, owned by Alcoa

Marine.

Herman C. Sieck has been named president of the division, reporting to Craig Mullen, vice president-operations of Alcoa Ma- rine Corporation.

Mr. Mullen said: "The forma- tion of this division of Alcoa Ma- rine Corporation is a logical ex- tension of our present capabilities.

We have added a team of experi- enced undersea geotechnical and geophysical people, and our facili- ties in Houston put our new ex- pertise close to the center of the oil industry."

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Rockwood Systems Corp. 80 Second Street S. Portland. Me. 04106 on a global basis. It is headquar- tered in Upper Marlboro, Md.

Incorporated in 1968 as Ocean

Search, Inc., the company was formed to provide program man- agement, deep-ocean search, sal- vage, and ocean engineering services. For this purpose, the all- aluminum vessel Alcoa Seaprobe was designed, constructed and is now managed by Alcoa Marine.

Configured much like a drillship,

Alcoa Seaprobe is designed to re- cover objects up to 200 tons from 6,000 feet and operate its search sensors or recover lesser weights from as deep as 20,000 feet. In addition to its search and recov- ery capabilities, other potentials for the ship's systems include deep-ocean mining exploration and monitoring, geological survey, cor- ing and oceanographic research.

Alcoa Marine Offshore Services

Co. will be located at 8804 Daffo- dil in Houston, Texas 77063.

Oceaneering Int'l

Names Taylor Potter

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Taylor Potter

Oceaneering International, Inc.,

P.O. Box 2430, Santa Barbara,

Calif. 93120, has announced that

Taylor Potter will assist Dr.

Yoram Goren with the firm's ex- pansion of services into the man- agement of undersea projects.

Mr. Potter comes to Oceaneering with a great deal of experience in offshore work in the North Sea, and prior to that, in shipbuilding and naval architecture.

His background includes several years as Chief of Hull Research

Division in the U.S. Maritime Ad- ministration, and then vice presi- dent and general manager for a

Hamburg-based branch of a U.S. firm of consulting engineers. He next served for several years as manager of marine engineering for the El Paso Natural Gas Com- pany's LNG tanker and terminal building program, and then as as- sistant vice president of the affili- ated Methane Tanker Service

Company.

In 1974, Mr. Potter went to Eng- land as offshore manager on the

Thistle Field and was later in- volved in other assignments, in- cluding consultant to the British

National Oil Corporation.

Oceaneering is one of the world's largest diving and under- water construction contractors, offering services and equipment in all phases of offshore activity, in every major exploration and producing area of the world.