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Kvaerner Delivers New

Flying Cat High-Speed

Catamaran To Greece

Kvaerner's 40M Flying Cat will sail in the

Sea-Spetsai service in Greece, and has a capacity of 352 passengers, including 92 on the top deck.

The first foreign delivery of the new Flying Cat high-speed catama- rans from Kvaerner Fjellstrand, a member of Norway's Kvaerner group, has been made to Greek ship- owner Ceres Hellenic Shipping &

Co.

This is the second Flying Cat to be built by Fjellstrand's Omastrand yard south of Bergen. The first went to a Norwegian ferry operator this past April, and a third unit was delivered to Thailand in December.

The catamaran supplied to Ceres joins a fleet of 25 hydrofoil craft which mainly provide ferry services between Athens and Greek islands in the Aegean.

Equipped with two engines and water jets developing a combined 4,000 kw, the vessel has a top speed of 38 knots and a service speed of 35 knots. It measures approximately 131 feet long by about 33 feet wide.

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Sonat Asks MarAd

Permission To Sell

Drilling Rig

The Maritime Administration (MarAd) has received an applica- tion from Sonat Offshore Drilling,

Inc. of Houston, Texas, for permis- sion to sell and transfer to Pana- manian registry the 37,363-dwt drilling rig Henry Goodrich. The proposed purchaser is Arcade Drill- ing A/S, Oslo, Norway. The vessel would be used in worldwide drilling operations, primarily in the United

Kingdom or Norwegian section of the North Sea.

The vessel was built in Tamano,

Japan, in 1985. MarAd permission is required by section 9 of the Ship- ping Act of 1916, as amended.

New Simrad Echo Sounder

Goes Into Operation

The first EM12 full ocean depth multibeam echo sounder from Sim- rad Subsea A/S, Horten, Norway, has gone into operation on the re- search vessel Ocean Surveyor, oper- ated by Worldwide Ocean Survey- ing Ltd., England. The EM12 data has been collected for the scientific and commercial sectors and pro- cessed into working charts and ter- rain models.

January, 1991

The Simrad EM12 is the first third generation deep sea multi- beam echo sounder, with a sector coverage of either 90 degrees with 81 beams, or 150 degrees with 151 beams. The first commercially available deep sea multibeam echo sounder, the Sea Beam, made its debut 15 years ago, with sector cov- erage of 40 degrees with 16 beams.

Ten years later, Simrad introduced its second generation of multibeam echo sounders, increasing sector coverage to 90 degrees with 50-60 beams. Besides increasing coverage and number of beams, the new

EM12 also has a new feature, seabed imaging. The seabed image created is comparable to a side scan image in detail, but is bathymetrically cor- rected both on screen and hardcopy recorder.

The first EM12 installed on the

Ocean Surveyor went through in- tensive trials in the Bay of Biscay in

September. According to Simrad, the trials showed that the unique phase detection principle used in the EM 12 provided the benefits of higher accuracy, better range capa- bility, and less weather dependence as compared to other systems.

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Under such circumstances the reliability of the propulsion plant takes on particular importance.

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