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Passenger Vessel Report ^.fllHHIIIHIHIIHHIH calls for Destiny to incorporate Delta T

Systems as standard equipment on all their vessels, which range from 88 ft. to 135 ft (26.8 to 41.1 m).

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Derecktor Shipyards Installs

Delta T's Products

Derecktor Shipyards installed Delta

T's engine room ventilation products on its 135 ft. (41 m), high-speed catamaran ferry for the Woods Hole, Martha's

Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship

Authority in Massachusetts.

The Delta T products present on the ferry — named Flying Cloud — consist of marine axial fans, moisture eliminators and stainless steel fire/smoke dampers.

New N.C. Ferry-Linked Water

Monitoring Generates Data

For the first time in its history, marine scientists at the University of North Car- olina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) and

Duke University have begun monitoring surface water quality in the Neuse River with the assistance of the Neuse River and its North Carolina Department of

Transportation staff.

The effort, which will be called Ferry-

Mon, is expected to become a model for ferry-based water quality monitoring throughout the U.S. Co-directed by Drs.

Hans Paerl and Joseph S. Ramus, pro- fessors at the UNC-CH and Duke marine laboratories in Morehead City and Beaufort, respectively and project co-directors, will expand their monitor- ing to the Swan Quarter-Ocracoke and

Cedar Island-Ocracoke ferries next spring.

The goals of this program consist of learning how excessive naturally pro- duced nutrients and those resulting from agriculture, industry, municipalities and domestic sources affect the environment and providing information needed for long-term water quality management.

In order to properly implement the system, Ramus and Paerl consulted with colleagues in Finland, where a compara- ble monitoring system already is operat- ing. The Finns coerced the two, who commenced work on the N.C. version three years before last year's disastrous effects of Hurricane Floyd, which prompted the state's financial support.

The FerryMon equipment, which is reportedly one of the most sophisticated in the world, was constructed at Ende- coYSI of Marion, Mass. According to

Paerl, one of the product's major advan- tages is its cost savings, which results from its placement aboard the ferries.

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Destiny Yachts Joins Delta T

Systems Alliance

Destiny Yachts, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is the latest yacht builder to join Delta "T" Systems' strategic corporate alliance program. As a new member of this group, Destiny will now benefit with quicker, easier and more cost-efficient access to Delta T's engine room ventila- tion products.

Delta "T" Systems' products manage airflow through the engine room to improve engine performance and ser- vice life.

They include fans, fire dampers, mois- ture eliminators and automated electron- ic ventilation controls. The agreement

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