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Inmarsat Narrows Options

For Its Handheld Satellite

Phone Service

Inmarsat has decided to choose between geostationary (GEO) or in- termediate orbit (ICO) systems for the provision of its proposed global handheld satellite telephone service, and cease further consideration of the low earth orbit (LEO) configura- tion.

The council's decision to confine further consideration to only GEO or ICO configurations was taken in context of the identified and service requirements for the worldwide pro- vision of Inmarsat-P, and after care- ful techno-economic evaluation of the possible system options.

Weeks Jamestown And

Wijsmuller Salvage Join In

Spill Firefighting Effort

Weeks Jamestown, Inc. (WJI) and

Wijsmuller Salvage have agreed to join forces in a long-term contract to meet the salvage and firefighting requirements of the Oil Pollution

Act of 1990 (OPA 90).

WJI material resources, which include salvage depots and more than 300 floating vessels and equip- ment, ranging from high-Bollard- pull ocean tugs to heavy lift crane barges, will be enhanced by the ad- dition of Wijsmuller assets and ex- perience, providing WJI an unprec- edented salvage and marine firefighting capability in the U.S.

Wijsmuller BV of Ijmuiden, Nether- lands has a long and successful his- tory of providing worldwide salvage and firefighting coverage.

In addition to staging salvage- specific equipment and salvage ex- pertise, Wijsmuller will pre-stage firefighting equipment for use by

WJI's recently activated Salvage

Action Response Team (SART) — a highly trained mobile salvage and firefighting response resource.

Wijsmuller will also provide backup firefighting teams for major firefighting operations.

Simrad Robertson Makes

Appointments; Offers New

ECDIS For Smaller Vessels

Brian Staton, former sales man- ager of the commercial department of Simrad, Inc. has been appointed to the position of general sales man- ager, commercial division of the new

U.S. company, Simrad Robertson,

Inc. Mr. Staton is responsible for all U.S. marketing, sales, and cus- tomer service operations for the fish- ery and pleasure craft markets.

David Hackney, former vice president of operations for Robertson

Marine Systems, New Orleans, has been appointed to the position of

September, 1993 general sales manager, offshore di- vision, Simrad Robertson, Inc. Mr.

Hackney will be a resident in the

Houston, Texas office with respon- sibility for all the functions of both the Houston and New Orleans fa- cilities. He is responsible for mar- ket development, sales, and cus- tomer service operations for the U.S. offshore and workboat markets.

Also, Ivar Storvik has assumed the position of market advisor and technical consultant supporting the jSfjBg

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Simrad Robertson offshore division and is a resident in the Houston office.

In other Simrad Robertson news, a new compact version of its Disc

Navigation System with particular advantages for the offshore indus- try was demonstrated aboard the R/

V Polar Search. Robertson says the new modular form, the RDN50, is especially suitable for retro-fit in- stallations on craft like seismic sur- vey ships and offshore support ves- sels. The system uses color profes- sional-style digitized charts resem- bling paper charts, but has the ad- vantage of "layering" so certain in- formation may be removed at the press of a button to improve clarity.

Interfacing with DGPS and ARPA produces a real-time picture of events.

Information from the vessel's own sensors can be directly stored on the

ECDIS chart, pinpointing obstruc- tions for future reference.

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