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JW Fishers Adds Pingers

JW Fishers has added pingers and a pinger receiver to its line of underwater search equipment. Pingers are acoustic devices that can be attached to, or dropped on, any underwater site and allow the site to be quickly and easily relocated. The pinger's acoustic signal is detect- ed by the pinger receiver which can be carried by a diver or deployed from a boat.

JW Fishers pingers are commercial-grade and come in two dif- ferent types; the single frequency pinger and the multifrequency pinger. The single fre- quency pinger (SFP-1) transmits only one frequency.

The user chooses one of four transmit frequencies at the time of order, and the SFP-1 frequency is set at the factory. The multifrequency pinger (MFP-1) lets the operator select any of 60 different transmit frequencies.

Using multiple pingers, with each transmitting a differ- ent frequency, allows multiple targets in the same area to be marked and individually located. The operator can change the transmit frequency of each MFP-1 at any time.

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MSC Security System Available to

Commercial Market

Beach Panel & Controls, Inc. has developed access- control perimeter security systems for Military Support

Command vessels. The same technology, developed in 2003, is now available for commercial vessels. The shipboard security modules are engineered to enhance and expand the abili- ty to detect and alarm crew of unauthorized boarding or tamper- ing with secure areas.

The electronic system allows crew members to monitor selected locations simultane- ously throughout the ship. The fully-integrated system works on a touch screen that combines real-time video surveillance, alarms at points of entry, hull perimeter lighting and audible warning systems to alert the crew of encroachments and unauthorized breaches. All com- ponents are recorded to provide an alarm history.

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ARTI Offers the Rescue Shuttle

Advanced Rescue Technologies Inc. (ARTI) offers the Rescue Shuttle, designed for first-response users: search and rescue, fire, police, hospital, and military applications, plus a variety of uses in the mining and shipping industries. The Rescue Shuttle is a patient transportation device that goes beyond the capabilities of the stretcher or wire basket. The Rescue

Shuttle provides a safe, warm, comfortable envi- ronment for the patient. It protects patients from the elements regardless of the recovery scenario: marine www.stearnssafety.com

Stearns I590 Cold Water

Immersion Suit

Beginning in 2006, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will make it mandatory for all cargo vessels operating in or traveling through cold-water areas to have one cold- water immersion suit per person on board.

As you prepare to comply with the new IMO-MSC 78 regulations, look to the one name more maritime professionals worldwide have staked their lives—and the lives of their crew—since 1948, STEARNS. The most popular and most technologically-advanced immersion suit in the industry, the

Stearns I590, the ultimate in anti-hypothermia protection.

Call or go online for a free catalog, and to receive the free CD: “How to inspect and don your cold-water immersion suit.”

Stearns, Inc. P.O. Box 1498 • St. Cloud, MN 56302 phone: 320.252.1642 fax: 320.252.4425

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