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Halter Marine To Convert

Supply Vessel For EPA

Under $4.2-Million Pact

The Maritime Administration has announced the recent award of a $4.2-million contract to Halter Ma- rine, Inc, Gulfport, Miss., a member of the Trinity Marine Group.

Under the terms of the contract,

Halter will convert the Marsea

Fourteen, an offshore supply vessel owned by the Environmental Pro- tection Agency, into a research ves- sel. MarAd will supply technical as- sistance.

Among the projects included in the conversion are the removal of drilling mud tanks and replacing them with scientific laboratories, the addition of new crew quarters, expansion of the superstructure to provide more working spaces, and installation of new scientific and navigational equipment.

Upon completion, the ship, to be renamed the R/V Lake Guardian, is scheduled for use in the Great Lakes region, operating out of Bay City,

Mich. The Lake Guardian will be the third largest vessel operated by the EPA.

For more information on services available from Halter Marine,

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Kloster Orders $80-Million

Cruise Ship From Schichau

The Schichau Seebeckwerft yard in Bremerhaven, West Germany, has received an order from Kloster

Cruise, Ltd., for a 10,000-gross ton, 212-passenger luxury cruise ship.

According to a representative of

Kloster, all of the ship's cabins will be outside staterooms. The $80-mil- lion ship will fly the Royal Viking

Line pennant. RVL hopes that the new vessel's ability to call at the smaller, more exotic ports will give the line a larger share of this in- creasingly competitive market.

Schichau Seebeckwerft officials have scheduled the delivery for Feb- ruary of 1992.

For more information about facil- ities and services available from

Schichau Seebeckwerft,

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Magnavox Introduces New

Integrated GPS/Transit

Satellite Navigation System

The Magnavox MX 4102GPS

Magnavox has announced the in- troduction of an integrated GPS/

Transit satellite navigation system for the commercial marine market.

The new MX 4102GPS is a com- plete dual navigation system, allow- ing users to make use of both the existing Transit navigation system and the as-yet-unfinished Global

Positioning System (GPS). The

GPS capability is provided by Mag- navox's six-channel MX4200 GPS receiver module, interfaced with the

MX 4102 SatNav.

The combined GPS/Transit package will provide users with an optimal worldwide navigation aid during the transition period while

GPS is being deployed. The MX 4102GPS provides a constant up- date of GPS-derived position when- ever signals from a sufficient num- ber of GPS satellites are available.

At all other times, the system auto- matically switches over to the Tran- sit system, updating position be- tween Transit fixes with automatic dead reckoning.

GPS is currently in its test and evaluation phase, with a total of 13 operational satellites in orbit out of a scheduled 24. Once the GPS satel- lite system is complete, the Transit system will be phased out. Current

U.S. Government plans call for GPS to be fully deployed and operational in 1993; Transit will be kept on the air through the end of 1996.

Magnavox Advanced Products and Systems Company, located in

Torrance, Calif., is a leading manu- facturer of Transit and GPS satel- lite receivers, as well as other ad- vanced electronics for military and commercial applications.

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MX 4102GPS,

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Plain Sailing

VERITAS PETROLEUM SERVICES

The world leaders in fuel-quality testing and technical reporting

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Laboratory (Teaneck N.J.)

Tel: (201) 833 1990

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