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CALENDAR

JANUARY 84th New York National Boat

Show: January 7-16, Jacob Javits

Convention Center, New York, N.Y.

Contact: Michael Duffy, tel: (212) 922-9607.

Yacht Insurance Claims Semi- nar: January 20, Norfolk Water- side Marriott, Norfolk, Va.

Contact: Stephanie Sayre, Knox

Marine, tel: (804) 393-9788.

Safety-at-Sea Symposium: Janu- ary 26, Bridgewaters, 11 Fulton St.,

N.Y

Contact: Andrea Laine, The

Seamen's Church Institute, 241

Water St., New York, N.Y. 10038, tel: (212) 349-9090, ext. 230; fax: (212) 349-8347.

FEBRUARY 25th Dockmaster's Training

Seminar: February 7-10, San Di- ego, Calif.

Contact: Crandall Dry Dock Engi- neers, Inc., P.O. Box 505637,

Chelsea, Mass., 02150, tel: (617) 884- 8464; fax: (617) 884-8466.

Underwater Intervention '94:

February 7-10, Town & Country

Convention Center, San Diego, Ca- lif.

Contact: Underwater Intervention '94 Committee, P.O. Box 261149,

San Diego, Calif. 92196, tel: (619) 422-8918; fax: (619) 426-4421.

International Boatbuilders' Ex- hibition & Conference (IBEX) 1994: February 10-12, Miami

Radisson Center, Miami, Fla.

Contact:Tina Sanderson, tel: (203) 852-0500; fax: (203) 838-3710.

ASNE Naval Engineering for a

Better Environment: February 23-24, Sheraton National Hotel,

Arlington, Va.

Contact:Margaret New (exhibits) or Melinda Sergent (registration) at ASNE, tel: (703) 836-6727; fax: (703) 836-7491.

MARCH

Gulf Coast Business & Industry

Expo '94: March 1-3, Mississippi

Gulf Coast Convention Center,

Mississippi

Contact: Tel: (601) 863-2933 or 1- 800-999-EXPO.

Oceanology International '94:

March 8, Brighton, England

Contact: Judith Patten, Public

Relations, OI 94, Neville House, 55

Eden Street, Kingston upon

Thames, Surrey KT1 1BW, U.K., tel: +081-547-1566; fax: +081-547- 1143.

Sea Japan '94: March 9-13, Japan

Contact: The Events Dept., The

Seatrade Organization, Seatrade

House, 42-48 North Station Road,

Colchester COl 1RB, U.K., tel: +44 206 45121; fax: +44 206 45190.

Connecticut Maritime Academy (CMA) Shipping '94 - The Costs and Rewards of Quality Ship- ping: Shaping Shipping's Fu- ture: March 14-16, Sheraton Stam- ford Hotel & Towers, One First

Stamford Place, Stamford, Conn.

Contact:Brad Berman, Esq.,

Seward & Kissel, CMA Trade Show

Chairman, tel: (212) 574-1204; fax: (212) 480-8421 or Peter Casciano,

International Marketing Strategies,

Inc., tel: (203) 622-4014; fax: (203) 622-1929.

ASNE Creative Logistics Tech- nologies for Tomorrow's Envi- ronment: March 15-17, Harrisburg,

Pa.

Contact: Jane McMullen, tel: (717) 790-6227.

GasTrade '94: March 16-18, Hong

Kong Convention Center, Hong

Kong. Contact: James Ball,

GasTrade Limited, 82 Rivington St.,

London, EC2A 3AY, England, tel: (0) 71613 0087; fax: (0) 71613 0094.

SIBCON '94: March 22-24, World

Trade Center, Singapore

Contact: The Conference Manager,

Times Conferences & Exhibitions

Pte. Ltd., Times Centre, 1 New In- dustrial Road, Singapore 1953, tel: +65 284 8844; fax: +65 286 5754.

SingaPort '94: March 22-25, World

Trade Center, Singapore

Contact: The Conference Manager,

Times Conferences & Exhibitions

Pte. Ltd., Times Centre, 1 New In- dustrial Road, Singapore 1953, tel: +65 284 8844; fax: +65 286 5754.

Fluid Power West, The Expo and

Technical Conference for Elec- trohydraulic and Electro pneu- matic Motion Control Technol- ogy: March 23-24, Anaheim Con- vention Center, Anaheim, Calif.

Contact: Karen Ertl, Expositions

Coordinator, tel: (414) 778-3349.

APRIL

International Offshore and

Polar Engineering Conference:

April 10-15, Osaka, Japan

Contact: ISOPE-94 Osaka, Techni- cal Program Committee (attn: Prof.

Jin S. Chung), ISOPE, P.O. Box 1107, Golden, Col. 80402-1107, tel: (303) 273-3673; fax: (303) 420-3760.

AWS International Welding Ex- position and Convention: April 12-18, Pennsylvania Convention

Center, Philadelphia, Pa.

Contact: Conventions and Exposi- tions Dept., American Welding So- ciety, 550 Lejeune Road, P.O. 351040, Miami, Fla. 33135, tel: (800) 443-9353 or tel: (305) 443-9353.

Newport News One Of Two

Finalists For Sabine Double-

Hull Refit Contracts

Sabine Transportation Co. of

Groves, Texas has selected New- port News Shipbuilding as one of two yards in the final round of com- petition to retrofit double-hulled forebodies onto the the sterns of two existing ships. The ships, SS

Sabine and SS Neches, currently have single hulls.

These will be the first ship conversions to com- ply with the double-hull rules of OPA 90. New- port News Shipbuilding has extensive experi- ence in joining new cargo sections to exist- ing ship sterns, having performed the process 33 times over the last few decades.

According to Ed Waryas, the shipyard's director of commercial marketing, "Newport News's finan- cial strength and depth of engineer-

Furuno Introduces New

Sounder/Fishing Plotter

Furuno's new FCV-1000 sounder displays 16 colors or multiple levels of amber.

Furuno has introduced a dual- frequency color video sounder with color video plotting capabilities, the

FCV-1000. The FCV-1000 features a high-resolution 10-inch display with 16 different colors (eight for sounding picture, eight for plotter) or multi-level amber presentation.

One, two or three kilowatt (RMS) output power can be selected by internal jumper settings. The user can choose a full-screen plotter dis- play or split-screen plotter/ echosounder, with plotter scales from one to 10 nautical miles.

For more on the FCV-1000,

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Sperry Marine Welcomes

Sensation To Miami

Carnival Cruise Lines' new 70,000-ton superliner Sensation made her maiden voyage to the Port ing talent allow our yard to offer the most competitive design. Our de- sign is tailored to Sabine's require- ments, and we provide an attractive price and payment schedule to suit their business plans." The retrofit- ting contract is expected to be awarded in 1994. For more infor- mation on Newport News,

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Ed Waryas (center) of Newport News Shipbuild- ing, discusses a retrofitting contract with Pat

Johnson (I.), vice president of Sabine's parent company, Kirby Corp., and Dennis Buffo (r.), vice president for maintenance of Sabine's Ship Div. of Miami recently. Sperry Marine

Inc.'s Florida sales manager Frank

Christophersen presented Cap- tain Raffaele Gavino with a com- memorative gift to mark the begin- ning of Sensation's service. The

Sensation and her two sisterships are equipped with a Sperry Marine

Integrated Bridge. For more infor- mation on the Sperry system,

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Simrad Robertson Receives

Five NMEA Awards

Simrad Robertson products re- ceived five National Marine Elec- tronics Association (NMEA) awards for superior craftsmanship and per- formance. Simrad Robertson prod- ucts took the honors in three catego- ries: "Small Boat Autopilot" for its model AP2500; "Large Boat Autopi- lot" for its AP300; "Instrumenta- tion" for its Dataline Instruments "Radio Direction Finders" for its

TaiyoTDL-1550; and "Gyrocompass' for its RGC 50 model. For mor< information on Simrad Robertson,

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KaMeWa Reaches

Agreement With FF Jet

KaMeWa recently expanded an completed its waterjet productio program with waterjet units in th 50-1,000-kW power range. The ac ditions to KaMeWa's range are tb result of an agreement with FF Je enabling KaMeWa to market F

Jet's range of waterjets for smalle vessels through its worldwide sul sidiary and distributor network. F( more information on KaMeWa,

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