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Vartsila Introduces ihip Machinery )ocu mentation System

Eldoc™, Wartsila Diesel's new slectronic documentation integra- ;ion system for on-board machin- sry, was the featured topic at a -ecent joint meeting of the Society )f Naval Architects and Marine En- gineers, New York Metropolitan

Section, and the Institute of Marine

Engineers. Karl F. Yannes, vice president responsible for Marine

Engines for Wartsila Diesel North

America, presented elements of the system and explained its features.

Eldoc™ is designed to provide immediate, on-line access to com- prehensive ship documentation through an interactive, easy-to-use computer interface. Maintenance manuals, spare parts catalogs, plus

Wartsila's existing diesel engine and ship monitoring systems are all in- stantly accessible by the user. Eldoc uses a Microsoft® Windows™ for- mat and digital video to display maintenance procedures. Accord- ing to Mr. Yannes, the interactive feature allows users to access infor- mation from several different files as needed, thus providing an easy, efficient guide to maintenance and repair problems. The video feature adds a new dimension to trouble- shooting, with users able to observe the action - not simply still images. "With Eldoc, users finally have a system that operates the way people actually think. They are truly amazed at how simple the system is to use," Mr. Yannes notes.

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Selantic Introduces

New Lifesaving

Evacuation System

Selantic Industrier A/S will be presenting its new design of SES-3

Marine Evacuation System for cruise ships, passenger ferries and cargo vessels.

The Selantic Evacuation System

SES-3 ensures safe evacuation for passengers of all ages. Based upon trials and tests, this high capacity

MES allows 350 persons to evacu- ate in a single chute, in accordance with the SOLAS requirements. To meet the new demands for high ca- pacity MES for the new designs of high speed vessels, Selantic has de- veloped a new SES-3 Twin Chute which evacuates 400 persons in well under 20 minutes, it was reported.

The Selantic Evacuation System is a self-contained, totally integrated unit occupying very little deck space.

The user friendly operation with controlled launching offers the op- tion of lowering the system as a one batch unit, including the number of liferafts fulfilling the capacity of the

MES system.

Selantic Evacuation Systems are easily installed inboard or outboard on all types of vessels with no limi- tation to freeboard height.

Based on several years of experi- ence on offshore installations in the

North Sea, Selantic Evacuation Sys- tem SES-3 is a safe evacuation solu- tion for passenger ferries and cruise ships, and contributes to increasing the safety on board for each and every passenger and crew member.

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Weeks Marine, Jamestown

Marine Announce

Consolidation

Weeks Marine, Inc. and

Jamestown Marine Services an- nounced a consolidation of assets and experience to meet salvage and firefighting response requirements of OPA 90.

Weeks Marine and Jamestown

Marine have participated in the sal- vage response operations of the

Exxon Valdez, the World Prodigy, the American Trader and the Bahia

Paraiso. Most recently they have worked together in response to the

Chiarra, grounded in Buzzard's Bay in December 1992.

Weeks Marine, Inc. of Cranford,

N.J., presently owns and operates the largest salvage fleet on the east- ern seaboard.

Its salvage fleet consists of more than 20 vessels, 120 barges, more than 40 floating cranes and Derrick rigs with heavy lift capacities up to 700 tons, and all necessary auxil- iary equipment.

Jamestown Marine Services of

Jamestown, R.I., is a marine ser- vices company of unique ability, es- pecially in salvage engineering, na- val architecture and salvage opera- tions.

Jamestown Marine assisted with the development of the U.S. Navy

Program of Ship Salvage Engineer- ing, marketed commercially as

HECSALV.

For firefightingg response,

Weeks/Jamestown is standing up a salvage action response team (SART), highly portable (by helicop- ter or over the road to the nearest port), self contained with pumps, foam, and prepackaged life support and firefighting equipment.

The combination of equipment and experience places Weeks/

Jamestown in the forefront of sal- vage and firefighting response.

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Marine

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Jamestown Marine

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Kvaerner Enters In

Cooperation Agreement

With Russian Shipyard

Kvaerner A/S, the Norwegian shipping, offshore and mechanical engineering firm, has concluded a cooperation agreement with the

Russian Sever shipyard at

Severodvinsk.

The agreement covers develop- ment of expertise at the Russian yard and fabrication of offshore structures, fish processing equip- ment and fishing vessels. Produc- tion pursued under the agreement will be divided between Norway and

Russia, which Kvaerner says will help the Russian yard in its conver- sion from naval to civilian produc- tion. Kvaerner has been in discus- sions for some time with the naval shipyards in Severodvinsk to de- velop petroleum fields on the Rus- sian continental shelf.

Kvaerner A/S is a shipping, off- shore and mechanical engineering firm in Norway.

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