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ware can be expected to earn the continued popularity and respect of the Delaware Pilots. Now, when one boat is removed from service for maintenance, her dependable twin sister will remain on station to make the temporary loss easier on the pilots.

Hyundai To Build Four

Rigs For ODECO At Total

Cost Of $260 Million

Hyundai Heavy Industries Com- pany, Ltd. of South Korea and

Ocean Drilling & Exploration Com- pany (ODECO) of New Orleans re- cently announced the signing of a letter of intent for the construction of four Ocean Odyssey Class self- propelled, semisubmersible drilling rigs at a price of approximately $260 million.

Hugh J. Kelly, ODECO presi- dent and CEO, and Y.K. Eum, executive vice president of Hyundai, said the first unit is scheduled for delivery during the third quarter of 1986.

Design of the four rigs will be pat- terned after ODECO's Ocean Odys- sey, an advanced, super-class semi- submersible that has seen service in the Gulf of Alaska, offshore Califor- nia, and is presently drilling in the

Bering Sea offshore Alaska. The new rigs will be capable of drilling wells to 25,000 feet in water depths to 3,000 feet while moored with an eight-point windlass combination chain and wire mooring system.

To be constructed at the Hyundai shipyard in Ulsan, the new drilling units will be classed by the Ameri- can Bureau of Shipping for unres- tricted worldwide ocean service.

The U.S.-flag units will be fully cer- tified by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Moffitt Names Menge As

Gulf Coast Representative

For Goodrich Bearings

RDI Announces $15-Million Agreement

With China For Electronic

Shipping Safety Systems

Radar Devices, Inc. (RDI), San

Leandro, Calif., recently announced the signing of an agreement valued at $15 million—the largest of its type—with the People's Republic of

China for electronic maritime safety equipment. "The immediate portion of the agreement is for $2.4 million," ac- cording to RDI president Law- rence Anderson. "In addition, the agreement includes provisions for additional systems, production kits and technical assistance over a five year period," he said.

The contract calls for the sale and assembly of RDI's maritime Satel- lite Communications System (Sat- com I), and Automatic Radar Plot- ting Aid (ARPA) maritime collision avoidance systems.

The International Maritime Or- ganization (IMO) requires the fit- ting of ARPAs on all vessels over 15,000 gross tons by September of 1989, representing over 10,000

ARPA installations by that time.

RDI, holders of fundamental pat- ents covering ARPA technology, has already installed Chinese-language

RDI president Lawrence Anderson and Chinese Consulate member Jinning Zhu discuss features of "Chinese-speaking" Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (ARPA).

Lucian Q. Moffitt, Inc. of Akron,

Ohio, a subsidiary of BFGoodrich, has named J.H. Menge & Company of New Orleans the Gulf Coast man- ufacturer's representative of

BFGoodrich Cutless® brand bear- ings. The new sales territory covers the Gulf Coast of Texas, Louisiana,

Mississippi, Alabama, and Northern

Florida.

Moffitt marketing and sales man- ager Robert L. Gilson said, "The addition of J.H. Menge to the distri- bution network of Lucian Q. Moffitt represents our commitment to in- crease our direct presence in the marketplace."

Located in New Orleans and

Houston, with bearing inventories available in Texas, Louisiana, and soon in Florida, J.H. Menge & Com- pany specializes in the sale and distribution of custom-engineered products for the marine and oil industries. Lucian Q. Moffitt is the marketing arm of BFGoodrich Cut- less brand bearings for marine and industrial applications.

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ARPA Series I systems at the Dal- ian Marine Institute, one of the leading marine institutes in China.

The Satcom I provides full telex and telephone communications to ships at sea via a satellite system accessible almost anywhere on the globe. Other available services in- clude data fascimile, computer-to- computer data transfer, and slow- scan television. The Satcom I allows instant telex and voice communica- tions in complete privacy with qual- ity equal to that of terrestrial-based telephone systems, and is unaf- fected by any adverse atmospheric conditions.

RDI is one of a handful of compa- nies throughout the world that have been awarded "type approval" for a satellite communications system from INMARSAT, the Internation- al Maritime Satellite Communica- tions Organization.

Satellite communications systems are an essential component of the

Future Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (FGMDSS), an automated network providing fast response to maritime emergencies, featuring automatic transmission of the location of the ship in distress, with broadcasting of rescue instruc- tions to all other vessels in the area.

Mandatory fittings of satellite com- munications systems to implement the FGMDSS are currently under consideration.

Radar Devices develops, manu- factures and markets electronic ma- rine navigational and communica- tions equipment for use in commer- cial merchant and military vessels and pleasure craft. The equipment is developed under R&D contracts with Maritime Research Group

Limited Partnerships.

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