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"... When you ask for people to come to Washington to give you an input and nobody shows up, and when you seek somebody from the private sector to go with you on your delegation and help you and nobody comes ... then you get what you deserve," the admiral said. He added that the offshore marine ser- vice interests have "... been ably represented and I think you people have profited from it."

Prior to the admiral's remarks,

Capt. Mayberry told the OMSA members of proposed or pending regulations on certification of sea- men, drug testing, physical exami- nations, firefighting examinations, and new license requirements for persons working on offshore drilling units.

He also discussed new Safety of

Life at Sea (SOLAS) proposals on life rafts, new Coast Guard stan- dards on exposure or immersion suits, additional manning require- ments on vessels, new proposals reg- ulating the use and operation of cranes on liftboats and offshore in- stallations, and standing boat legis- lation.

Imperial Receives Order

For 500 Survival Suits —Literature Available

Imperial Manufacturing Co. of

Bremerton, Wash., a leading pro- ducer of survival suits, has written a contract for over 500 survival suits for two new ODECO drilling rigs.

The Ocean Valiant and Ocean

America rigs are being built in Ko- rea by Hyundai Heavy Industries for ODECO (Ocean Drilling & Ex- ploration Company), and are ex- pected to be operational next year.

ODECO has had Imperial surviv- al suits on all its offshore platforms for four years. Last fall the survival suits helped save the lives of em- ployees swept overboard off the

Coast of Mexico during Hurricane

Juan. One person survived more than 20 hours of exposure in the 50- foot waves, wearing the Imperial survival suit.

Imperial provides adult standard, jumbo, and child's size survival suits. The suit fits over clothing and can be donned in about one minute.

Imperial has worked with various governing bodies, including the

Coast Guard and Underwriters Lab- oratory, for 15 years in testing and developing safe standards.

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Seebeckwerft Awarded

Contract To Add Capacity

To Passenger Ferry

A/B Swedcarrier of Stockholm has placed an order with Seebeck- werft AG of Bremerhaven to in- crease the passenger capacity of its

RO/RO passenger ferry Saga Wind.

The vessel, which operates beween the ports of Travemiinde and Trel- leborg, is scheduled to arrive at the shipyard in July this year; the con- version work is expected to take about two weeks.

The deckhouse will be enlarged by the addition of 22 new cabins for a total of 60 additional passengers.

To accommodate them, the size of the lounge and cafeteria will be increased and other changes under- taken. Two additional lifeboats will be installed.

The Saga Wind has an overall length of about 506 ¥i feet and beam of 69 feet. She was built by Elsinore

Shipyard in Denmark in 1972 and lengthened by Fosen Shipyard in

Norway in 1984.

Kansas City Company Gets $9.7-Million Navy Contract

For Six Sets of Cranes

Engineering-Manufacturing Cor- poration of Kansas City, Mo., has been awarded a $9,730,000 contract by the U.S. Navy for the construc- tion and installation of six cranesets for the next three auxiliary crane- ships (T-ACS-4-5-6) that will be converted from merchant vessels.

The program calls for the conver- sion of a total of 12 vessels to crane- ships that would be used in emer- gencies to discharge ships in ports where conventional shoreside facili- ties are not available. The first con- version was completed by Bay Ship- building, the second was awarded to

Continental Maritime, and the third to Dillingham Ship Repair. 27