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Seacor, NRC Announce

Plans For Oil Spill

Recovery Vessel

Seacor Marine Inc. announced plans for delivery of the M/V Tas- manian Island, which will be re- named the SEACOR Osprey and chartered to Marathon Oil Company for term employment.

SEACOR Osprey will meet stan- dards for ABS classifications as an

Oil Spill Recovery Vessel (OSRV) and will satisfy USCG safety regu- lations for the skimming and han- dling of recovered oil. Enhanced firefighting capability is also being added to the vessel. The Osprey, which will continue to be engaged in regular commercial service in the

Gulf of Mexico, will be available to the National Response Corporation (NRC) for spill response operations and drills, and for inclusion in NRC client response plans required by the Oil Pol- lution Act of 1990 (OPA 90).

The SEACOR Osprey will be used to transport supplies and materials to

Marathon's offshore production facili- ties from Marathon's base in Venice, La.

NRC will have unrestricted access to the Osprey for any emergency.

The Osprey had work done at ...BEING A DAY LATE

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Kvichak Wins Contract

To Build Kodiak-Powered

Oil Response Vessel

Kvichak Marine Industries of Se- attle was awarded a contract to build a 32-footoilspill response vesselforRiedel

Environmental Services, Inc., which is based in Portland, Ore.

The new boat is slated to be sta- tioned at Cathlamet, Wash., joining

Riedel's fleet of four vessels to pro- tect the lower Columbia River un- der contract to Clean Rivers Coop- erative of Portland. f-^l- m -TPl II 11 1

Kvichak Marine's 32-foot oil spill response boat

The fast-response vessel from

Kvichak features a bow ramp to en- able rapid deployment of spill con- tainment boom, shallow draft that is ideal for inland waterways ser- vice, and a fully-enclosed pilot house for all-weather operations.

The all-aluminum boat will mea- sure 32.5-feet long, with a beam of 11.5 feet, and a draft ofjust 18 inches.

Propulsion will be provided by a

Kodiak 502 gasoline engine rated at 380 hp, coupled to a Kodiak 303 waterjet pump drive.

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CLARIFICATION

The ABB Turbocharger Co., erro- neously identified in an October 1992 story on the SNAME show in New

York, is a North Brunswick, N.J.- based company equipped for metal- lizing, balancing and repairing all turbochargers and rotors manufac- tured by ABB, as well as the recon- ditioning of hlades, bearings and pumps, performed in the company's unique "clean room." The company also maintains a warehouse stocked with thousands of spare parts for the various turbocharger models.

Parts can be shipped at a moments notice, with the help of a sophisti- cated computer system which main- tains inventory, prices and other relevant data.

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Turbocharger products and services, or for a listing of the company's ser- vice stations across the U.S. and the world,

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