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April 2012www.marinelink.com 83Tsunami Shelter Moves Forward Brahman Industries developed a tsunami and flood shelter system, and announced its collaboration with Mar- tinez Marine Design and Creative Systems to refine and validate the STATIM shelter's design and capabilities as a floating structure. The STATIM (acronym for Storm, Tornado And Tsunami Interconnected Modules) Shel- ter consists of an enclosable hull comprised of a series of precast, lightweight concrete modules, similar to large diameter concrete pipes. Once assembled, it provides a water-tight environment with buoyancy and self-right- ing capability. Inside, the shelters are equipped with secure seating for occupants, ventilation, and options of survival supplies capable of sustaining the occupants during and after a disaster. It is the equivalent of an "inland life boat." www.statimshelter.com CorDEX Instruments Wins CorDEX Instruments won an award for its innovative explosion proof camera which is being used in the field by Weath- erford. It won first prize in the Best User Application category at this years Haz- ardEx Awards for its ToughPIX 2303XP camera and came second in the Contri-bution Towards Safety category. It de- velops hand-held technologies ideally suited to the hazardous environments of the oil and gas sector. Its intrinsically safe equipment eliminates the need for shut-down or hot work permits during Non Destructive Testing and inspection pro- grams. ToughPIX 2303XP camera is more streamlined than its predecessorand includes still and moving images in AVI format of up to 10 mega pixels. www.cordexinstruments.com Thuraya Debuts XT-DUAL Thuraya launcheda dual mode hand-held phone that fea-tures both GSM andsatellite capabilities:XT-DUAL. XT-DUAL oper- ates efficiently as a standard GSMphone within thereach of terrestrialnetworks, and when out of terrestrial net-work reach operates as a satellite phone supported by Thu- rayas network. In addition to the built-in web browser, the phone can be connected to a laptop/PC for internet access and canbe synchronized with a laptop/PC. The phone also has a battery saving technol- ogy to support a long lasting talk time ofup to 11 hours and standby time of up to160 hours contributing to the high attrac- tiveness of the phone. The XT-DUAL of- fers a GPS functionality that allows waypoint navigation, tracking capabili- ties to send automatic location updates bySMS as well as an emergency function. www.thuraya.com Alignment Live Trend M.A.C.E., Inc. offers now alignment live trend services. Cold alignment tar- gets may not accurately predict the actualoperating condition of a running ma-chine. With our live trend services we can monitor the movement of machines dur- ing run-up or coast-down phase, in order to determine the positional change over time and the influences of given events. Precisionalignment drastically reducefactors that may cause machinery break- down www.mace-inc.com Hatteland Launches SeriesX RangeHatteland Display launched its latestproduct range, Series X. The range is available as a Display or a Panel PC, and that applies for all 7 sizes launching thisspring (8, 13 wide, 12, 15, 17, 19 and 24wide inch sizes). A 26-in. widescreen will be available in Q3 2012. The features in- clude sleek glass bridge design, GlassDisplay Control (GDC), optional OpticalBonding technology, High Bright per- formance, Wide Screens, LED displays across the board, Multi-power as stan- dard and Multi-Touch. www.hatteland-display.com