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Sonsub Awarded Shell

Contract

Shell Offshore awarded Sonsub its 1994 underwater inspection con- tract. Sonsub will mobilize a 20-hp

Viper ROV and will be working with a team of support divers from aboard one of Shell's vessels con- ducting surveys on Shell's installa- tion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Avondale Wins $ 12M

Drydock, Repair Contract

Avondale Industries was awarded a $12 million contract for the drydock and repair to two

TAKR-Fast Sealift ships for Bay

Management Inc. The work will be performed on the USNS Algol (TAKR-287) and the USNS Altair (TAKR-291) at the company's main shipyard facility and will be com- pleted by January 1995.

Newman Named President

And CEO Of Diagnostic/

Retrieval Systems

Diagnostic/Retrieval Systems,

Inc. (DRS) appointed Mark S.

Newman president and CEO. He succeeds his father, Leonard

Newman, who retains the position of chairman of the board.

Mark Newman has been em- ployed with DRS for 20 years. Since 1987 he has served as executive vice president and CFO. He has been a director on the company's board of directors since 1988.

The company also named three corporate vice presidents: Paul G.

Casner, Jr., president of DRS's

Electronic Systems Group; Stuart

F. Piatt, president of Precision

Echo, Inc.; and Richard Ross, president of Photronics Corp.

Nancy R. Pitek was named con- troller and treasurer.

Dorman Installs First Of

New Sea Prince Engines

Staffordshire-based Dorman Die- sel has supplied four custom-de- signed Sea Prince 6LTD5 marine engines for auxiliary purposes, via its wholly owned subsidiary com- pany in The Netherlands, to Zwart

Technikk BV for use by the

Gemeenteveroerbedrijf (GV) ferry company in Amsterdam. The four engines will power the wateijets on two canal water-buses designed to ferry the 22,000 locals and tourists who use the ferries every day to cross the inland canals in

Amsterdam.

Carolina Skiff To Build New

Boat Model

Carolina Skiff is gearing up to build a new model boat, called the 120 series. It will be 10 feet (3 m) wide and will be available in lengths from 24 feet (7 m) to 38 feet (11.5 m).

A movable transom insert will allow customized lengths, depending on application. Bottom thickness of six, eight or 12 inches will be offered.

The hulls will be hand-laid. Ma- terial and layups schedules can be tailored to specific applications.

While a standard 38/120 will weigh around 3,400 pounds, a 38-foot hull can be built to weigh less than 1,600 pounds if the end use requires a light-weight hull.

Sulzer Engines Chosen For

OOCL Containerships

The six4,960 TEU post-Panamax containerships contracted in Japan and South Korea by Orient Over- seas International Ltd. (OOIL) will each be propelled by a 12-cylinder

Sulzer RTA84C low-speed diesel engine with a maximum continuous output of48,600 kW (66,120 bhp) at 102 rpm. The ships will have a beam of just under 131 feet (40 m), and their service speed will be 25 knots. They will be deployed on the transpacific trade of OOIL's liner operation, Orient Overseas Con- tainer Line Ltd. (OOCL).

Four of the OOCL vessels will be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Indus- tries Ltd. in Japan, while the other two vessels will be built to the same design by Samsung Shipbuilding &

Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. in South

Korea.

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