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Training Success With

U.S. Rig Simulator

Featured At Conference

Nearly 200 persons have success- fully completed training on an off- shore rig ballast control simulator, similar in function to those used to train airplane pilots.

Details of the program were re- ported by Gregory D. Szczurek, vice president, Houston Marine

Consultants, Inc., New Orleans, at the recent North Sea Technology

Transfer Conference at the Techni- cal University of Nova Scotia.

Mr. Szczurek said the simula- tor, designed by Houston Marine and W.S. Atkins, is a full scale mockup of a ballast control panel aboard a semi-submersible drilling unit that reflects changes in ballast, loads and sea conditions in the same way a drilling rig would respond at sea.

The U.S. Coast Guard approved course consists of two days of class- room instruction in stability princi- ples and calculations, which are then followed by three days of "hands on" training with the simu- lator.

The stability and ballast control courses are taught by Houston Ma- rine at the Det Norske Veritas

Technology Center in Houston but are independent of the regulatory agency.

The simulator can be used to train/or upgrade the skills of control room operators, barge engineers, barge movers, masters and tool- pushers.

Allied filARiflE CRAflE

Builds CRANES from 2 to 75 Tons!

New ML-7500 Loran C Makes You Look Smart 10

We build one of the original product lines of hy- draulically operated, pedestal mounted marine cranes. The line consists of 20 standard models with telescopic and double tapered box booms.

Designed for use in a saltwater atmosphere, our cranes provide dependable performance on ships, barges, docks, offshore drilling/production plat- forms and work boats.

Diesel or electric power packs available, and all cranes are equipped with automatic overload safety systems. Custom-made cranes and options are available.

Allied Marine Cranes are distributed interna- tionally. One recently completed contract was with •the U.S. Coast Guard for 89 cranes.

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Micrologic was the first to give you full-function

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Borum Wins Kings Point

Outstanding Professional

Achievement Award

John Borum

John F. Borum, vice president of the American Bureau of Ship- ping, has received the Outstanding

Professional Achievement Award from the U.S. Merchant Marine

Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. He is a 1944 graduate of the Academy.

This prestigious award is pre- sented to graduates who have dis- tinguished themselves in business or professional life to lend honor to their profession and the Merchant

Marine Academy. At the award cer- emonies held at the Academy re- cently, it was noted that Mr. Bo- rum had achieved his license as chief engineer within 20 months of graduation. He sailed as chief for four years before coming ashore as port engineer with Seatrain Lines.

He joined ABS in 1958 and spent 15 years in the Far East before mov- ing to Genoa, Italy, as principal sur- veyor for the Mediterranean Area.

He returned to Bureau headquar- ters in New York in 1978, and has become vice president, Operations

Division.

Norfolk Shipbuilding

Awarded Contract For

USS Portland Overhaul

Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry- dock Corporation, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded an $8,694,726 firm- fixed-price contract for the overhaul of USS Portland (LSD-37). Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va. and is expected to be completed

August 15, 1985. Contract funds would not have expired at the end of the current fiscal year. Six bids were solicited and two proposals were re- ceived. The Supervisor of Ship- building, Conversion and Repair,

Portsmouth, Va., is the contracting activity.

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