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PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY — High Speed & Gas Turbine Engines (Continued from page 128) any joystick maneuvering system; the space occupied by inboard motors is freed for other purposes; tractor propellers work in undis- turbed water leading to low vibration; and the heading can be maintained under emergency full astern conditions. The source of power has also been changed for these two ships.

Six of Wartsila's new 12W38 engines will replace the four 12-cylinder and two 8-cylinder

Sulzer ZA40S engines. Carnival has not adopt- ed this system blindly, as it noted the consistent and excellent performance returned with a bouy tender and with two 11.4-MW conversions of ice-going product tankers. The system was reportedly offered to Royal Caribbean Cruises (For additional propulsion technology insight fro

Ltd. for its latest orders. Integrated electric propulsion and auxiliary systems are an ideal solution for chemical tankers which may have a large number of tanks, each requiring a segre- gated pumping system.

Stolt Parcel Tankers have specified such power on a dozen such ships, of advanced design, ordered in Denmark, France and Spain.

O+With this setup, cargo space is gained because the machinery space is very short, as the generator sets are installed above the 10-

MW motor, which is a relatively small, 1,200- rpm machine, geared to a six-bladed propeller.

Large passenger and vehicle ferries are anoth- er type of ship for which electric transmission

Graeme MacLennan, please see the copy o/"Mari: included with this edition.) was once popular. It was lauded for providing easy maneuverability, and was an option before powerful medium-speed engines and CP pro- pellers became generally available. The

German and Swedish TT ferries, operating in the environmentally-sensitive Baltic Sea, burn a very light grade of fuel.

Clever design by Deltamarin of Finland uti- lizes the advantage of the freedom from shaft- line constraints by installation of two 6,500-kW

AEG propulsion motors as far aft as possible, and the generator sets in compartments within the double skin outboard of the B/5 bulkheads in the much longer lower trailer deck thus made possible. : Technology International, page 12, which was

MIT Research Shews Decreased Bycatch

With Alternative Fishing Method

Research by the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology (MIT) Sea

Grant Center for Fisheries

Engineering Research indicates that midwater pair trawling may be the most effective, resource- sparing and marine mammal- friendly approach to landing big- eye, yellowfin and albacore tuna.

Data from the two-year study, which was authorized by the

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), is now being examined by the agency as it considers making pair trawling an approved method for catching tuna.

Since 1993, NMFS has permit- ted only long-lining and grill net- ting for commercial tuna fishers on the U.S. East Coast. While little data exists regarding the exact bycatch (the catch of untargeted species) with these techniques, both involve levels that concern fishers and environmentalists alike.

In the MIT Sea Grant study, a small group of fishers spent two seasons midwater pair trawling for tuna in the Northwest Atlantic.

With this method, two vessels work together, with each boat pulling on one side of a net.

Accompanied by NMFS observers, the fishers documented the perfor- mance of their fishing gear for each haul and recorded all catches.

Results from both seasons show a small number of encounters with sea turtles and marine mammals, due in large to the fact that the nets are quickly lowered to depths where tuna, and not the protected species, congregate. The large mesh-size of the pair trawl nets also allows smaller fish to escape.

The documentation of the fish- ery, in which close to 95 percent of the fishing trips were made with

NMFS observers, offers the agency the opportunity for utilizing scien- tific data in its decision-making. "This experimental fishery repre- sents a new way of getting things done," said Cliff Goudey, director of the MIT Sea Grant Center for

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