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NRC To Participate

In Rule Development

For Spill Response Plans

Officials at the National Response

Corporation(NRC),Calverton,N.Y., were recently informed by the U.S.

Coast Guard, Rear Adm. Eugene

Henn, that NRC has been selected to participate in the Negotiated

Regulation process for development of regulations for vessel response plans and carriage of response equip- ment aboard tank vessels as per the rulemaking requirements of the Oil

Pollution Act of 1990.

Mark Miller, president of the

NRC said: "The admiral's decision to include NRC on the Neg/Reg Com- mittee is indicative of the tremen- dous recognition, momentum and support we have garnered since our announcement of formation on No- vember 1, 1991. With the Coast

Guard's selection of the NRC, we believe that our viability as an alter- native means for the industry to meet compliance has been recog- nized."

Miller said Jim O'Brien of

O'Brien's Oil Pollution Service, an oil spill manager, has agreed to par- ticipate in the technical develop- ment of NRC's business plan. In addition to working on the outfit- ting and retrofitting of the fleet of supply ships and work vessels, Mr.

O'Brien will be active in the devel- opment of the NRC training pro- gram, shoreline protection plan, and act as the firm's spill manager in the event of a member client's spill.

NRC is in the final stage of devel- opment of a cost structure for mem- ber clients. The pricing formula will include coverage for both U.S. do- mestic and foreign-flagged tank ves- sels as well as shoreside facilities.

Miller said: "The pricing/cover- age structure was designed to be as flexible as possible without becom- ing too confusing or cumbersome in figuring what a specific company's cost will be. We believe the mari- time and petroleum community will be pleased with the pricing format we've designed."

New Offshore Services

Company Established

Deepsea Development Services,

Inc. has been formed as a subsidiary of Sachse Engineering Associates,

Inc.(S.E.A.). The new company in- corporates all of S.E.A.'s existing offshore services personnel and as- sets.

Dan White has been named

President, Deepsea Development

Services, Inc. The main office is in

San Diego and a branch office is in

Houston. Operations managers are

Ed Saade and Jan Vicek (San Di- ego) and Bob Holloway (Houston).

Deepsea continues to provide off- shore services including ROV (Re- con IV, Hysub, and RCV-225)and survey operations, coastal engineer- ing and differential GPS (COMSAT).

Its state-of-the-art equipment includes the Subsea Crawler and the Laser Survey Vehicle.

Robertson Disc Navigation

To Be Displayed At

ECDIS '92

The first symposium and exposi- tion for Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems - ECDIS '92 - will be held at the Omni Inner

Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland,

February 28-29, 1992. Robertson

Marine Systems, Inc. will show its latest Disc Navigation system which they believe to be the state-of-the- art in ECDIS design.

As a leading supplier of vessel dynamic positioning(DP), autopilots, trackline control systems, surface and underwater gyrocompasses and inertial platforms, Robertson has applied this acquired vessel control expertise to expand the ECDIS ap- plication.

ECDIS in its own right will revo- lutionize the vessel bridge, but

Robertson plans to offer its ECDIS as a building block for practical ship- board innovation.

Robertson will exhibit their inte- grated navigation and electronic chart display of Disc Navigation

System with the joystick and DP controls of its RMP ROBPOS at

ECDIS '92. This represents only one dynamic application Robertson envisions for ECDIS.

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