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Clyde Marine’s McMurry Young

Business Person of the Year

Colin McMurray,

Managing Director of Clyde Marine

Training, celebrated success at the Glas- gow Business

Awards as he was presented with the award for Young

Business Person of the Year. As the

Managing Director,

Colin has brought the company through six years of continuous growth both in terms of business and profitability. This included being involved in the manage- ment buyout team that acquired the busi- ness from its previous owner

Gowdy Joins

Global Diving & Salvage

Seattle-based Global Diving and Sal- vage has hired Renee Gowdy as Lead Es- timator, responsible for developing estimates and proposal production within

Global’s Marine Construction Division for Federal, State, Local and civil cus- tomers as well as other key markets.

McClaugherty Joins Surf Subsea

SURF Subsea, Inc. (SURF), announced that Jim McClaugherty has joined the team as Vice President of Business De- velopment. He will have the responsibil- ity of leading the company’s Sales and

Marketing efforts. Jim has 40 years of ex- perience in the Offshore Industry. He has recently departed EPIC Diving & Marine where he served as their Director of Mar- keting for 3 years and has come aboard with SURF Subsea to pursue worldwide business opportunities and to assist in the growth of this exciting company.

Donjon-SMIT Names

Hankins President

Donjon-SMIT, an

OPA-90 Alliance, has named Paul

Hankins as Presi- dent. He formerly served as Donjon-

SMIT’s Vice Presi- dent of Operations and has been with the organization since 2005. Hank- ins has more than 30 years of manage- ment and supervisory experience in the federal government and private industry, including more than 18 years in emer- gency response and marine salvage oper- ations management. Prior to joining,

Hankins was Deputy Assistant Adminis- trator for Maritime and Land Security for the Transportation Security Administra- tion (TSA), and also served as Director of Response Preparedness.

Signal Wins Transocean

Drillship Project

Signal International won a contract from Transocean UK Limited, to refur- bish and upgrade the Deepwater Naviga- tor drillship. The initial contract is valued at $32.4m. The work is slated to be per- formed at Signal’s shipyards in

Pascagoula, MS and Mobile, AL. The drillship was to arrive the second week in

October at Signal’s East Bank shipyard in Pascagoula where an extensive list of repairs and upgrades will be performed.

Major items include living quarters en- hancements and refurbishment; the fab- rication and installation of a new helicopter deck; high and low pressure pipe system replacement; major equip- ment removals and repair, ventilation system enhancements, and the upgrade of electrical power, communication and control systems.

Following equipment removals, the ship will move to Signal Ship Repair (SSR) in Mobile for dry docking.

At SSR the Deepwater Navigator will undergo hull and tank repairs, thruster re- moval and repair, servicing of the main propulsion system and lower hull paint- ing. Upon completion, the ship will then return to the Pascagoula shipyard for in- stallation of new and refurbished equip- ment, new quarters and helideck modules, systems completions, commis- sioning and redelivery.

JMS Develops iPhone

Application for Mariners

JMS an- nounced the re- lease of its first iPhone ap- plication, as well as plans to develop more.

The U.S. Navy

Salvor’s Hand- book is now available for the iPhone.

The U.S. Navy

Supervisor of

Salvage wanted to provide to their on-scene salvage personnel, ac- cess to its extensive library of ma- rine casualty response know-how.

The Salvor’s Handbook was in- tended to be a condensed and ready-reference of expert guidance that could fit in the salvor’s hip pocket. JMS Naval Architects & Sal- vage Engineers first authored the

U.S. Navy Salvor's Handbook for the Supervisor of Salvage in 1990, and since its government publica- tion, JMS has received thousands of requests for the handbook from commercial mariners and salvors all over the world. JMS now makes the same expert guidance available for your iPhone. To get your copy, visit JMS’s website: www.JMSnet.com or search “JMS” or “Salvors Handbook” in the App

Store icon right from your iPhone. www.jmsnet.com

Thales Minehunting Sonars put to the Test

Four Royal Navy (RN) mine counter- measures vessels (MCMVs) fitted with Thales UK’s minehunting sonars have been taking part in a series of joint exercises with the

U.S. Navy (USN) in the Arabian Gulf.

The exercises were designed to en- able the two navies to further de- velop minehunting techniques in the warm, shallow waters of the Gulf.

The RN force consisted of two Hunt- class MCMVs (HMS Middleton and

HMS Chiddingfold) and two

Sandown-class vessels (HMS

Grimsby and HMS Pembroke).

The Hunt-class fleet is fitted with

Sonar 2193, an advanced hull- mounted wideband minehunting sonar; the Sandown class operates with Sonar 2093, the most suc- cessful variable-depth multi-mode sonar in its field.

NEWS PEOPLE & COMPANIES

Goldberg, Otero Win 2009 Thomas Crowley Trophies

Captain Vic Goldberg, vice president of marine operations for Crowley Maritime Corporation's petroleum transportation team, and Tony Otero, vice president of finance and planning for the company's shipping and logistics operations, were awarded 2009 Thomas Crowley trophies, the company's highest honor. The employee recognition program was created in 1985; only 52 of the company's more than 4,300 employees have been awarded the limited-edition bronze sculpture, which depicts a young Thomas Crowley as he ferried goods to and from ships on San Francisco Bay in the early 1890s. The trophy serves not only as a tribute to the founder of the company, but also to those honorees who have aligned themselves closely with the company's values and displayed out- standing performance along with dedica- tion, leadership, initiative and productivity. Goldberg joined Crowley in 2002 as vice president of ship manage- ment in Weehawken, N.J., and was pro- moted in 2005 to vice president of marine operations. He relocated to Jacksonville in 2006, and today is responsible for the operation of Crowley's marine petroleum assets including seven product tankers and 14 articulated tug barges. Otero started his career as a senior accountant at Crowley in 1998 after working several years for the accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche. He was promoted to manager, accounting, in 2004 and to director, finance, for the logistics business unit in 2006. The following year he also assumed the financial responsibilities for the Puerto Rico Caribbean liner business unit as well as the Latin America liner group including all accounting activities in foreign countries. In 2010,

Otero was promoted to vice president finance and planning for the three liner/logistics business units. Otero earned his ba- cholar's degree in accounting and his master's degree in accounting from the University of Florida, and he is a certified pub- lic accountant (CPA).

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