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KVH Doubles Speeds for

Tracphone F77

KVH Industries, Inc., has reportedly doubled the high-speed data rates for the

Tracphone F77, an Inmarsat Fleet-com- patible marine satellite communications system. Tracphone F77 customers can now receive high-speed 128 Kbps

Internet and data service.

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QCI Marine Wins Contract

QCI Marine Offshore LLC, has been awarded by Signal International the accommodations and inside electrical work on Etesco's Millennium vessel.

The project, to be built at Signal's

Pascagoula yard, includes the build out of five levels of accommodations. The

Etesco Millennium, under contract to

Petrobras, will house 272 persons, com- plete with dual cinemas and swimming pool and will provide offshore platform construction and repair facilities. After completion of the work in early 2006, the vessel will travel to Brazil for use in the Campos Basin.

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Barry Joins Davis

Consulting

Christopher Barry, a mechanical engineer and naval architect with expe- rience in ship design, stability and struc- tural analysis and offshore civil engi- neering has joined Davis Consulting

Group (DCG) marine engineers, a divi- sion of Davis & Company, Ltd., as a consultant. His addition brings to seven professionals on the company's nation- wide team of marine surveyors and naval architects that specialize in the areas of engineering and design and accident reconstruction, fire and explo- sion cause and origin, forensic engineer- ing and commercial vessel surveying.

StratosMAS:

Broadband Wireless

Advance for GOM

Stratos Global Corp. launched

StratosMAX, a new broadband wireless access (BWA) network that is touted as maximizing the performance, flexibility and scalability of remote voice and data communications in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to the company, four offshore energy companies operating in the

GOM have signed up for StratosMAX, which uses the latest developments in

WiMAX broadband wireless technology with Stratos' network backbone infra- structure.

StratosMAX is designed to provide offshore drilling and production compa- nies with a secure and reliable platform for delivering up to 2 Mbps of capacity to support a full range of IP-based data applications, as well as multiple voice lines for telephone connectivity.

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X-Craft Crew Completes

Training

The crew of the Navy's experimental

X-Craft, dubbed Sea Fighter, completed the initial phase of training in High

Speed Craft Operations at Marine Safety

International's Norfolk Center in March.

This initial phase included high speed

Radar (ARPA), Electronic Navigation (ECDIS), Bridge Resource Management (BRM) and Safety and Operations train- ing, and was conducted in association with Kingston Marine Consultants.

Follow-on phases will include four weeks of training on board the X-Craft, both in port and underway, leading to a

High Speed Craft Type Rating certifica- tion for the vessel and the crew.

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