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NKK Signs Agreement

With Baker Marine Corp.

NKK (Nippon Kokan) has con- cluded a license agreement for a jackup-type drilling rig made by

Baker Marine Corp. (BMC), a leading U.S. rig builder.

Masayoshi Akizawa, NKK New

York general manager, said un- der the terms of the contract,

NKK will manufacture and mar- ket the BMC jackup-type rigs on an exclusive basis in Japan, and will have nonexclusive rights in other countries of Asia except

Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philip- pines, and Singapore.

NKK previously had a techni- cal tie up with ETA, a leading

U.S. rig designer, which devel- oped the ETA-type rig design.

Last year, the assets of ETA were purchased by BMC and as- signed to its wholly owned sub- sidiary, Baker Marine Engineers,

Inc., located in Houston, Texas.

The new agreement permits

NKK to manufacture and sell two series of jackup-type rigs—

BMC jackup drilling rigs using

BME electric-driven jacks, or

BMC electrohydraulic jacks.

NKK, second largest steelmaker in Japan as well as a leading con- tractor in the heavy industry sec- tor and also a shipbuilder, en- gages in offshore development projects such as submarine pipe- lines, drilling platforms and stor- age tanks.

Women Invade Engineers'

Seagoing Dredge Fleet "It's not that unusual; every- one has to make a living," says

Lee Ann Tyler, the first female officer ever to serve aboard one of the Army Engineers' seagoing dredges, the Comber, working out of the Philadelphia District.

Lee Ann Tyler

Lee Ann works the day shift from 8 a.m. through 4 p.m. for 10 days and then has four days off, as do all hopper dredge as- sistants. Separate facilities have been provided for her. Otherwise,

Lee Ann says she is just "one of the guys." The experience of working on a dredge is like every experience. It's a learning process.

Hired for the summer as a hop- per dredge assistant aboard the

Comber, which was built in 1947 and is responsible for maintain- ing the Delaware River channel at its authorized depth of 40 feet,

Lee Ann performs the same tasks as her male counterparts — deck work, some navigation and assist- ing the dragtender, quartermaster and deckhands.

Twenty years old and a native of Long Island, N.Y., Lee Ann is not taken by surprise by the ma- rine life; one of her first interests was sailing. This fall, Lee Ann will be a senior at the New York

Maritime College, where she is studying marine transportation, with economics as her major. Lee

Ann is uncertain of her exact ca- reer plans, but hopes to eventu- ally get her master's license.

Being the only female on the dredge comes as no shock since her school is mostly male. Lee

Ann is accustomed to adjusting to being surrounded by males. She feels that being a female in this type of job is nothing spectacu- lar. Her interests happen to lie in what is presently a male- dominated field.

When asked how she feels about being waited on by a male at din- ner, Lee Ann responded, "I put in my day's work as a hopper dredge assistant, and that's how he puts in his day's work."

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