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Watchkeeping (STCW) convention introduced this February will allow inadequately trained seafar- ers to be refused work for next year, O'Neil said.

The International Safety

Management(ISM) code, to be introduced next July, will also force companies to treat safety seriously and introduce special planning.

MSI To Conduct Intracoastal

Waterway Improvement

Study

MarineSafety International (MSI) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers District, Galveston,

Texas, to conduct a simulator study of two areas of the Gulf

Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW).

The purpose of the simulator analysis is to assist the Corps'

Waterways Experiment Station (WES) in fine-tuning and evaluat- ing new channel designs which are intended to alleviate navigational difficulties at the Freeport

Wiggles, a section of the GIWW, as well as in the High Island Bridge area, also a section of the GIWW.

MSI will prepare visual, radar, depth, bank and current computer models of the two areas as they presently exist and as they will be with the new channel designs.

Hydrodynamic response models of various configurations of push tows will also be prepared.

Simulation tests will be conducted at MSI's Newport, R.I., facility .which houses four interactive visu- al simulators.

Two of the simulators are set up as river towboat wheelhouses, each featuring control consoles, two sets of steering and flanking rudder controls, twin throttles, river radars, VHF radios and other instrumentation and gauges found on a river towboat.

These simulators have been refined over the past three years while conducting training for

SeaRiver Maritime's Gulf and

Inland Division and other tug- barge operators.

MSI will work with WES to veri- fy, and if appropriate, help improve the channel designs.

Using six experienced river pilots, approximately two weeks of real time simulator runs will be

October, 1997 conducted at Newport.

Halter Wins OSV Contract

From Kilgore

Halter Marine, Inc. has been awarded a contract from Kilgore

Offshore, Inc. for the construction of two 205-ft. (62.5 m) offshore sup- ply vessels (OSVs) with options for two additional sisterships.

The vessels will be built at

Halter's Moss Point, Miss., yard, with the first delivered in August 1998 and the second following in

November. The vessels are valued at approximately $8 million each.

Each will be powered by two

Caterpillar 3516 diesel engines developing a total of 4,000 hp, dri- ving 92-in. diameter stainless steel propellers through Reintjes reverse/reduction gears.

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