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SERVICE • REPAIR • PARTS

CONSULTING • DESIGN

CUNNINGHAM MARINE

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Viking Introduces

Ship Evacuation Slide —Literature Available

Viking Life Saving Equipment, Inc. reports that its new dual track marine escape slide (MES) has the capacity to eva- cuate 360 passengers in 30 minutes.

The efficiency of evacuating high density pas- senger vessels with high freeboard has been greatly increased by borrowing an idea from the airline industry.

Viking Life Saving Equipment has developed a marine escape slide (MES). Its operation is based on the same principles as those used in aviation escape slides, but with the addition of a number of marine-oriented features.

The Viking dual track MES, for example, con- sists of one inflatable dual track slide; one inflat- able raft embarkation platform; plus a stowage box for the entire system that is fitted into a ship's side up to 60 feet above the water level. In addition, the system has eight inflatable 45-per- son life rafts.

The company claims that at a height of 45 feet above the water level, the dual track system has the capacity to evacuate 360 passengers within 30 minutes. Two of Denmark's largest ferries are equipped with six MESs.

Operation of an MES is initiated simply by pulling one handle to access the stowage box.

Disembarkation can begin after the slide and embarkation platform are inflated with 3-4 min- utes.

Passengers come down the slide to the embar- kation platform at the end of the slide. It can accommodate 95 passengers. This leaves ample time for crew members on the platform to launch the eight life rafts one by one that are part of each system. Passengers are quickly moved from the embarkation platform to the life rafts. The entire procedure is designed to keep passengers completely dry.

Viking also manufactures single track marine evacuation slides for smaller vessels. These are designed to handle 225 passengers within 30 minutes and have stowing heights of 20 feet above water level.

For free literature completely detailing the features of the Viking marine escape slide,

Circle 106 on Reader Service Card

FUEL OIL TRANSFER PUMPS 2 ea. identical. Complete. Operating when tak- en out. DeLaval Turbine Pump Mfg., Model 323AVX337, with GE 60 HP 60-motor. Pumps 250 or 500 gpm. Like new. New price $24,000.

Will sell for $7,495. Consumer Fuels, 205-837- 5660.

S.S. UNITED STATES

RADIO ROOM

Complete, as new condition HF,

MF, low freq., telegraph, radio tele- phone transmitter and operating console. FCC approved. Call P.J.

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PROUDLY SERVICING

THE MARINE AND OIL

INDUSTRY

WITH / D

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Watercom Promotes

Ulrich And Gassman

Caryl S. Ulrich has been promoted to cus- tomer service representative, and Robert J.

Gassman has been promoted to sales represen- tative for Watercom, John G. Smith, vice pres- ident of marketing and sales, recently an- nounced.

Watercom makes and markets the inland marine industry's only direct-dial telephone network. The company has its headquarters in

Jeffersonville, Ind.

For more information and free literature on

Watercom,

Circle 43 on Reader Service Card $985,250 Contract Awarded

Undersea Warfare Center Of

General Dynamics By DARPA

The Undersea Warfare Center of General

Dynamics Corporation has been awarded a 14- month, $985,250 contract by the Defense Ad- vanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to formulate, evaluate and integrate advanced sub- marine warfare technologies.

The award is part of DARPA's $113-million advanced submarine technology development program for 1988.

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