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Velocity Marine Delivers

Custom Pontoon Workboat

Velocity Marine, Inc., Lakeshore,

Miss., recently delivered a 20-foot by 9-foot pontoon workboat to a lo- cal sewerage lagoon contractor.

The sewerage lagoon work boat built by Velocity

Marine.

Velocity received a request for a vessel that could place baffles and their 500-lbs concrete anchoring weights in a sewerage lagoon. Ve- locity designed a steel pontoon workboat that would straddle the baffles along with a two-foot by six- foot square opening in the deck for lowering the weights. To help move the weights, a small crane was fit- ted to the boat and its handrails are removable. The steel channel deck bolts to the pontoons, allowing the craft to be disassembled and trucked to job sites and for its deck area to be customized as needed.

Velocity Marine also fabricates a complete line of work floats, pin barges and structural steel items.

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Russian Research Subs

Now Ready For Chartering

The two Russian deep-sea re- search submersibles, Mir 1 and Mir 2, which were used to survey the

Titanic in 1991, have recently been classified by Germanischer Lloyd, enabling them to be chartered to international customers.

Both of the 25.6-foot long subs weigh 18.7 tons and worked at a depth of some 12,470 feet and under a pressure of 380 bar to photograph and video the famous wreck. The two craft are capable of diving to depths greater than 19,685 feet.

Both subs were built in 1987 by the Finnish shipyard Rauma-Repola for the Institute of Oceanology of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

The deep-sea research submersible Mir 1.

Merlin Teknologi

Introduces New Clearwater

Oily Water Separator

Merlin Teknologi of Kristiansand,

Norway, has introduced a new sepa- rator called the Clearwater which they claim will purify bilge and bal- last water to less then five parts per million (ppm) or 0.0005 percent oil.

The Clearwater separators made for ship installations, cleaning from one to five cubic meters of bilge or ballast water per hour, work in two stages. A static pre-separator re- moves most of the oil before the water is pumped to a centrifugal section for final treatment. The only water outlet is the one for puri- fied water on the centrifugal sec- tion. The automatic shut down valve is ppm-controlled.

As of January 1992, the company had reported that thirteen units had been ordered. The separator was designed and patented by

Vindholmen Services, while further engineering and marketing are pro- vided by Merlin Teknologi.

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Quality

Marine Equipment

And Spare Parts

Let us assist you with your needs for quality marine equipment and spare parts from these and other lead- ing manufacturers: "Ameron * Boll & Kirch * Caird & Rayner Clark *

Conrad Bergan * Dodwell * Duap Gestra # Goulds

Pumps * Hamworthy Pumps & Compressors * Hiller

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QUALITY

INNOVATION

ON-TIME DELIVERY

At Bender, we build all types of vessels: crabbers, offshore supply vessels, push boats, shrimp boats, factory trawlers, riverboats, passenger vessels, tuna seiners, tug boats. The list goes on and on. From the smallest tug to the largest trawler, our vessels share one very important advantage: a company-wide commitment to quality. For more than 70 years, Bender has been known throughout the world for solidly BENDER delivered on-time and at a competi- tive price. Stretching along a mile of waterfront, Bender is one of the leading ship repair operations on the

Gulf of Mexico. Our modern facilities include four steel floating dry docks with lifting capacity to 20,000 tons, allowing us to repair ships to

Panamax size. From our innovative team of engineers to our experienced crew of welders and pipe fitters, we bring

Bender quality to every job. built vessels, SHIPBUILDING & REPAIR CO., INC. 265 South Water Street • Mobile, AL 36603 • P.O. Box 42 • Mobile, AL 36601 (205) 431-8000 • FAX (205) 432-2260 • Telex 505-457

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