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Quotable p. 30 p. 16 “There certainly has been a lot of media attention to autonomous vessels in the past decade, more media attention than perhaps attention from owners. We have actively been working on autonomous vessels, and we have some projects that have progressed, but it is going to be a slow adoption process.”

Mike Fitzpatrick “I think it’s a valuable

President & CEO, Robert Allan Ltd.

exercise to look at a ship holistically in that there’s an instrument on the ship, “By the end of 2022 let’s say a multibeam, that’s installations of turbines of up only as good as everything to 14WM will be underway. that it’s attached to. Just These turbines require like vibration, if you’re heavier lifts of more than

Q transmitting a bunch of 1,500 tons to higher heights mechanical sound into from 125-150m. We expect your sonars, you’re going 160 to 180m lift heights for to get junk. The ship is the the next generation 20MW+ instrument.” turbines before the end of p. 26 the decade.”

Bruce Appelgate,

Associate Director and Head

Philip Lewis, of Ship Operations, Scripps

Director of Research, World Energy Reports

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