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is in the context of a confused number of accu- sations about the welfare of seafarers employed on open registry vessels."

A call for minimum international standards on labor relations for seafarers is certainly praise- worthy, but the ITF says it supports the many international conventions that maritime nations the world over — including open reg- istries — have vigorously supported. "Responsible shipowners have long been con- cerned with maintaining high labor relations standards for seafarers, regardless of flag," said

Mr. Smith. "The best thing we as an industry can do to improve working conditions for seafar- ers is to get substandard ships to comply. The

ITF should turn its considerable power and attention to improving conditions onboard sub- standard ships and penalizing owners who do not comply with international labor standards."

The ITF affiliates national unions in all branches of transportation. In the case of open registries, the ITF enforces its polices by threat- ening a shipowner with boycott action if there is no agreement with the crew on conditions that are acceptable to the ITF.

Inbro Citygate Offers Offshore

Standard Insurance Package For ROVs

Bisso Completes Salvage Operations On Offshore

Tug Mac Tide 63

London insurance broker Inbro

Citygate is offering a standard cover reportedly suited to all types of sub- mersibles from the simplest survey units to manned submersibles and pipelaying trenchers.

According to Inbro Citygate's

Chairman Gerry Graham, the intro- duction of this cover has been made easier because the company has spe- cialized in this sector for a number of years: "We now have several years of documented claims experience with

ROVs working in various parts of the world including the North Sea, the

Middle East, Southeast Asia, South

Africa, Australasia and the U.S. Gulf.

Our track record in this specialist field has enabled us to provide under- writers with detailed statistics which, in turn, has made possible the estab- lishment of a placing facility tailored specifically to the needs of ROV oper- ators."

The Inbro Citygate cover applies to all offshore equipment anywhere in the world, including while-in-use transit and storage for all risks of physical loss or damage.

The cover is placed 45 percent at

Lloyd's with the remainder carried by major international insurance compa- nies operating on the London Market.

For more information on Inbro Citygate

Circle 103 on Reader Service Card 70

Bisso Marine Company, Inc. completed salvage operations on the 7,000-hp offshore tug Mac Tide 63. The tug sank in 60 ft. (18.2 m) of water, 30- mi. off the Louisiana coast in South Timbalier

Block 96 after striking a submerged object. A 150-ft. (4.5-m) breach in the engine room was the cause of the sinking. The vessel, lying on her starboard side, became embedded 15-ft. into the natural bottom.

Underwater repairs were made using wet weld- ing techniques and the vessel was pre-rigged for lifting. Diving services and a liftboat were pro- vided by Subsea International of Belle Chasse,

La. Bisso Marine's 700-ton derrick barge Cappy

Bisso and 600-ton derrick barge Lili Bisso arrived on the scene, anchored into lifting position and brought the vessel to the surface in two hours.

Mac Tide 63 was towed into Fourchon, La., where the 80,000 gallons of diesel fuel that remained aboard the vessel during the salvage were discharge without incident. The floating vessel was then released to its owners, Tidewater

Marine, Inc.

For more information on Bisso Marine

Circle 101 on Reader Service Card

Ingalls Commissions USS Cole

DDG 67, the eighth DDG 51 Class Aegis guided missile destroyer to be built for the U.S. Navy by Ingalls

Shipbuilding, was commissioned USS Cole, and reported for duty during ceremonies on June 8 at Port Everglades, Fla.

Commander M. Stewart O'Bryan, USN, will assume com- mand of the new ship which will be homeported in Norfolk,

Va.

For more information on Ingalls

Circle 99 on Reader Service Card

USS Cole sailed from Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., on May 28, 1996.

The ship is named to honor the life and service of Marine Sergeant Darrell Samuel

Cole, who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Iwo Jima campaign in February 1945.

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