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Nichols Brothers To Build Dive Catamaran For Operation

In Fiji Islands

The third vessel in a series of catamaran dive boats from Nichols

Brothers Boat Builders, Inc. has been ordered by Alaska Dive Boat,

Inc. for operation by Live/Dive Pacific. The vessel, dubbed Fiji

Aggressor, to be delivered from Nichols Brothers' Whidbey Island,

Wash., yard early next year, will be based at Live/Dive's new Aggressor franchise in the Fiji Islands.

Fiji Aggressor will be a Subchapter T boat under U.S. Coast Guard regulations. It was designed by International Catamarans Pty., Ltd. of Australia (Incat), and will be the 23rd high speed catamaran to be complet- ed by Nichols Brothers.

The vessel — which will accommodate 16 passen- gers for extended cruises and 49 passengers for day boat operations — will offer a range of facilities for sports divers. Such facilities include a stateroom with individual shower units, crew quarters, a full-service galley, bar and entertainment center, dive platforms, photo lab and onboard air compressors to fill scuba dive tanks.

Anticipated to have a top speed of 25 knots, Fiji Aggressor will be driven by waterjets powered by two 1,000-hp diesel engines. Overall length of the Z-form, high efficiency, low wake hulls will be 107 ft. (32.6 m). Onboard equipment will also include two 55-kW generators, fresh watermakers and air conditioning.

Alaska Dive Boat, Inc., headed by Joe Usabelli, has previously taken delivery of Kona Aggressor II in 1992, and Palau Aggressor II in 1994. The Aggressor Fleet, Ltd., headquartered in Morgan City, La., books charters for operations in a number of locations, primarily in the

Caribbean and South Pacific areas.

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MarineLine Coating Applied

To Chemical Tanker

M/V Rachel B, a 13,749-dwt chemical tanker operated by

Hiltviet Associates, Inc. of New

York, has had two of its cargo tanks coated with Advanced Polymer

Sciences' MarineLine high-technol- ogy tank lining. The 1987-built vessel was docked for 26 days at

Viktor Lenac Shipyard, Rijeka,

Croatia, in April. Among tasks car- ried out during its stay in the yard was the lining of the vessel's No. 7 port and No. 7 starboard sloptanks with two coats of MarineLine of 250 to 350 microns dry film thickness, covering a total surface area of l,600-sq.-m.

Previously, these tanks had been coated with epoxy, but as the vessel will be carrying cargoes such as methanol, ace- tone, sodium hydroxide and other similarly aggressive products in its tanks, it was decked to apply MarineLine as the first phase of estab-

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Owned by Suffolk Tankers Ltd.,

M/V Rachel B is an IMO type II and

III chemical tanker and has a total of 28 cargo tanks of which 14 are of stainless steel construction. The other 14 tanks, arranged seven on each side of the vessel, are of coated steel. The application to Rachel B is reportedly one of many projects carried out or specified, in addition to Latvian Shipping Company's chemical tankers Indra and

Dzintari, both of which had all cargo tanks coated with

MarineLine. Another five vessels in the fleet are to be similarly coat- ed with MarineLine.

For more information

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