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THE IM1Y EVACUATION

SYSTEMS THAT ARE

OS COAST GUAR!

APPROVER.

Evacuation Slide System.

Designed specifically for Low Freeboard Ves- sels, it is a combination slide and platform. It provides speedy evacuation for all passengers -young, old and physically challenged.

US Coast Guard Approved.

Evacuation Chute System.

The most efficient, easy-to-use, flexible, and cost-effective marine evacuation system avail- able in the world. It evacuates passengers and crew in the shortest possible time.

Manufactured to meet or exceed all SOLAS requirements. US Coast Guard Approved

We manufacture the only 100 person

Reversible Inflatable

Platform built in North America

These sturdy platforms are designed for pas- senger carrying vessels operating in protected waters. Fully reversible - it offers instant board- ing, which ever way it inflates. Also available in 10, 25 and 50 person sizes.

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British Columbia, Canada V6V 1Y6

Ph. (604) 278-3221 Fx. (604) 278-7812 1-800-931-3221 salesedbcmarine.com www.dbcmarine.com

Pound For Pound,

Ballast-Crete Is Better.

For Ail Marine Fixed Ballast Operations

Densities Up lb 400 pcf (S.G. 6.4)

Inorganic, removable, and available in a wide range of densities, Ballast-

Crete is the ballast of choice for naval architects and engineers around the world. For more information, call

Red land Genstarat(4l0) 683-9254.

Redland

G E N S T A R

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Better

Bends!

Wallace Coast's fully CNC, 3-inch bender: • designed especially for automotive manufacturing applications • features dual-radius, stacked tooling y- Manufacturer of Wallace Coast Pipe benders and a complete line

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U.K. Maritime Report order ever won by the Belfast yard, part of the

Norwegian company Fred Olsen Energy.

Each vessel, based on the dynamically-position- ing, Glomar 456-class monohull design, is valued at around $300 million, of which more than 75 percent is the responsibility of Harland and Wolff.

Glomar C R Luigs, the first of the pair, is destined for initial charter to BHP Petroleum following scheduled handover in October 1999, while the sister vessel, Glomar Jack Ryan, has been com- mitted to the Exxon group, once ready for service in the opening quarter of 2000.

As it had done in earlier years with the seminal

Sea Quest and Seillean projects, the Ulster firm showed its mettle in the offshore domain with the delivery at the beginning of last year of the

Schiehallion FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) unit, the world's largest purpose- built vessel of its type. Harland & Wolff has since further demonstrated its capabilities as one of the few truly integrated design, engineering and fab- rication complexes in Europe through the major conversions of two semi-submersible rigs as fifth- generation units for drilling, testing and workover operations.

ICON Research Advances With

On-Board Monitoring; Doctor System

Icon Research has developed a fully featured system for onboard monitoring of rotating plant and machinery — as well as the measurements of temperatures and pressures. Comprised of an industrial network for data gathering, the system also has the capabilities to store results and dis- play plant conditions.

The program compliments planned mainte- nance and allows for plant maintenance on the basis of its condition — rather than age.

Operation is simple. The regular view of the system will be shownin a schematic of the ship presenting its various levels.

A green or clear appearance on each deck of the ship ensures that everything is status quo — along with "traffic light" type boxes appearing at the bottom of the screen indicating the amount of points that are okay.

If problems arise, a yellow or red traffic light is displayed showing which points have reached alarm status and by clicking the mouse pointer on the affected ship, all areas with sensors, as well as their status are shown.

Many points may have two or even three mea- surements that can be accomplished by using only one transducer. The software can decipher the problem that the equipment is experiencing by breaking down the vibration into its compo- nent frequencies — and by knowing which fre- quencies are related to which problem.

By clicking the mouse once more on any given measurement, two trend graphs are displayed — one for the condition of bearing (gbearing), the other for mechanical type problems such as unbalance or looseness — both of which are mea- sured using the vibration velocity.

ICON has also come upon much success with its easy-to-use Doctor system. Designed initially as a portable instrument, the system is able to take fuel pressure readings on 2 stroke engines in addition to cylinder pressure. Performance can be measured on 4 stroke engines as well.

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