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First Northern

Environmental Offers New

High Efficiency Absorbent

First Northern Environmental

Inc. (FNE) provides Safe Harbor™ to the maritime industry, a new capillary absorbent designed to ab- sorb all hydrocarbons, petroleum- based liquids and most water soluble fluids. Its capillary/cell structure is designed to enable it to mechani- cally absorb and retain target liq- uids in microscopic cells. The prod- uct reportedly absorbs up to 60 times its own weight, ultimately helping to lower clean-up costs. Safe Har- bor is also available in varied con- figurations and spill kits for on- deck, bunkering, below-deck main- tenance and terminal operations.

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New USCG Safety Award

Bestowed To Four Honorees

Commandant of the U.S. Coast

Guard (USCG), Adm. J. William

Kime, recently bestowed a newly- established award for sustained con- tribution to national and interna- tional marine safety and pollution prevention to four honorees.

The RAdm. Charles P. Murphy

Award, named in honor of the late

RAdm.Charles P. Murphy, former

Chief of the Office of Marine Safety and former chairman of the IMO

Maritime Safety Committee, were presented to Capt. James B.

McCarty, Jr., USCG (Ret.), Capt.

Archibald K. McComb, Jr., USCG (Ret.), Edward M. MacCutcheon, and James B. Robertson, Jr. All are Interngovernmental Maritime

Consultative Organization (IMCO) and International Maritime Orga- nization (IMO) hands and major contributors to the technical labors that are the underpinnings of the

SOLAS and Loadline Conventions.

Capt. McCarty spent four years with Newport News Shipbuilding &

Dry Dock Co. before taking a posi- tion at the Bureau of Marine In- spection and Navigation (BMIN) in 1940. He retired as the executive secretary of the Merchant Marine

Council.

Capt. McComb served as chief,

International Maritime Safety Co- ordinating Staff, and was respon- sible for coordination between the various governmental and indus- trial groups in their development and preparation of the U.S.'s posi- tions.

Mr. Robertson helped solve hull failure problems of early Liberty ships in World War II and T-2 tank- ers, was a member of the U.S. del- egation to the 1948 SOLAS Conven- tion and a technical advisor to the 1960 and 1974 SOLAS conferences.

Mr. MacCutcheon is former chief of the Office of Research and

Development of the Maritime Ad- ministration, and was in charge of R & D and the operation of the nuclear merchant ship Savannah.

N.Y. Canal Revitalization

Addressed At Luncheon • li I - ••. ? © AHEAD. (2) ZERO-SPEED. Full steering effect in this mode. (3) ASTERN.

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But for HamiltonJet, quite the reverse is true... literally.

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The result is the patented HSRX servo- hydraulic follow-up control system. This major advance in applied hydraulics features a unique rotary valve integral with the deflector actuating cylinder.

The new HSRX gives full follow-up movement with enhanced reaction time and precision at the zero-speed position... simply. And all with inboard hydraulics for long life and easy maintenance.

HamiltonJet.

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New York State Thruway Authority and Canal

Corporation Chairman Peter Tufo briefed the press at the N.Y. Yacht Club, April 27, on improve- ments along the New York State Canal System from Albany to Buffalo. Plans include developing harborfront areas complete with parks, marinas, restaurants and retail shops. The first such development will be Syracuse's Inner Harbor. 108 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News