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Austal Venture Wins Order

For 258-Ft. SuperCat

Ferries Australia, a newly- formed joint venture of Austal Ships and luxury motor yacht builder

Oceanfast, has secured an order with Sea Containers, Ltd., a high- speed ferry operator, for the first of a new series of SeaCats with op- tions on four additional sisterships.

The venture markets mega fer- ries of 197 ft. to 328 ft. (60 m to 100 m) in length to Europe and South

America

The 257.8-ft. (79-m) Super

SeaCat, as the new vessel will be called, is scheduled for delivery in

May 1995 for service in Northern

Europe.

This will be the first mega ferry to be constructed at Austal Ships' new $15 million shipbuilding facili- ties near Fremantle in Western

Australia

Four Ruston 16RK270 diesels will drives KaMeWa waterjets through Reintjes VLJ 4430 gear- boxes to give the Super SeaCat a service speed of about 39 knots.

Swede Ship Group Wins

Far East Foilcat Order

The Swede Ship Group, devel- oper of the Foilcat 3000, won a new contract from Singapore's Paciro

Group for one Foilcat 3000 diesel- driven ferry catamaran, with an option for one more.

Delivery is expected for summer 1995. The newbuilding is intended for a route in the growing South- east Asia ferry market.

The Foilcat 3000 has a maxi- mum speed of about 50 knots, a service speed of about 45 knots, and a passenger capacity of 200, and can reportedly operate in rough sea states — up to 13-ft. (4-m) wave heights.

A Foilcat 2900 ordered earlier this year by an Indonesian organi- zation is now in operation between

Indonesia and Malaysia.

The Swede Ship Group is owned and managed by Swede Ship Invest

AB of Ronnang, Sweden.

Reson Sea Bat Sonar

Tested For Hull Damage

Assessment

The Deep Ocean Systems Branch of the Naval Surface Warfare Cen- ter (NSWC) in Annapolis, Md. per- formed tests this month to evaluate deployable systems for a hull-crawl- ing underwater vehicle for ship hull damage assessment to be performed by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), including Reson's SeaBat 9001S switchable multi-beam sonar sys- tem.

The vehicle, conceptualized in part by Battelle and the USCG Re- search and Development Center, employs a suite of underwater sen-

June, 1994 sors designed to detect damage to ship hulls in a wider range of envi- ronments and conditions.

The USCG Research and Devel- opment Center in Groton, Conn, con- tracted to lease the Reson SeaBat 900 IS to be tested by the NSWC for possible use on the vehicle.

Tests were performed in an un- derwater acoustic tank maintained by NSWC, as well as several outdoor basins. Mounted on a Phantom ROY, the SeaBat 900 IS was evaluated for its capabilities as an obstacle avoid- ance system, as well as for a hull- proofing system for rapid assess- ment of a ship's hull damage. The

SeaBat 9001S can be toggled be- tween Forward-Looking and Bathy- metric modes.

The first mode enables the user to navigate a moving vehicle under- water at rapid speeds without dis- tortion of the field of view. The

Bathymetric mode provides a wide profile of the ship's hull and updates data at a rate of 30 times per second.

Stored to an on-board computer, the collected data can be replayed to provide the user with a 3-D view of the ship's hull, displaying dents, holes, and tears to the surface.

SeaBat sonar units have recently been sold to HAM dredging in Hol- land and to the Port of Harwich,

U.K.

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