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SNAME Spring Meeting/STAR Symposium—A Preview

Ice Tech 81

Ottawa, Canada — June 16-19

This major event will bring forth the results of research and devel- opment in designing ships for ice navigation by many nations of the world.

For years to come "Ice Tech '81" will be considered and ref- erenced as a major event in re- source and marine development in the Arctic regions and ice-covered waters. Ice Tech '81 is the title of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers annual

Spring Meeting/STAR Symposi- um. This year it will be held in the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa,

Ontario, Canada from June 16 through 19. The Eastern Cana- dian Section of the Society will be the host.

A total of 26 technical papers have been prepared, all dealing with ice navigation and the de- sign of ships for Arctic and Ant- arctic conditions. The authors come from the USSR, Finland,

Germany, Japan, Canada and the

United States, thus, giving a worldwide view of this important subject. In 1975, the Eastern Ca- nadian Section of the Society or- ganized the successful "Ice Tech '75." Ice Tech '81 will be a timely successor to that outstanding meeting.

Technical Sessions

All of Ice Tech '81 technical sessions will be held in the Draw- ing Room of the hotel, directly off the Ballroom Lobby on the ground floor.

Paper No. 1 — "Manhattan's

Arctic Venture; A Semi-Technical

History" by W.O. Gray and R.

Maybourn.

SYNOPSIS: The conversion of the 106,000-dwt Manhattan in 1969 to enable her to undertake icebreaking experiments in the

Canadian Arctic was described as "the most extensive and enter- prising shipbuilding endeavor in the United States since World

War II." This paper describes the basic purposes and results of the project which led its sponsors to conclude that it had been success- ful and might someday lead to the introduction of economic year- round Arctic marine transporta- tion.

Paper No. 2 — "SS Manhattan

Arctic Marine Project Data: The

Impact on Technology" by A.D.

Mookhoek, R.P. Voelker and F.W.

DeBord.

SYNOPSIS: During the period 1968-71, EXXON, ARCO and BP participated in a project to de- termine the feasibility of trans- porting Alaskan North Slope crude oil via icebreaking tankers.

This paper describes and discuss- es the technical and operational data resulting from that project and assesses its impact on future

Arctic marine technology/Design criteria for a new icebreaking tanker were developed based on analytical studies, model tests and results from the SS Manhattan icebreaking tests.

Paper No. 3 — "Marine Trans- portation of Oil and Gas in the

Alaskan Arctic" by J.G. German,

M.D. MacPherson, J. Meakin and

C.W. Parker.

SYNOPSIS: A number of studies prepared over the last few years have attempted to define the en- vironmental conditions in the Arc- tic and to develop the marine systems which will be needed to operate them. This paper sum- marizes the previous work re- lated to Arctic marine transpor- tation and presents the results of a technical and economic compar- ison of a number of Arctic marine transportation alternatives which were evaluated parametrically for the U.S. Maritime Administra- tion.

Paper No. 4—"Commercial Ma- rine Transportation of Arctic Na- tural Resources" by J.B. Mont- gomery and C.R. Jordan.

SYNOPSIS: This paper begins by identifying the Arctic resources (continued on page 42) 36 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News