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  • The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded a major contract worth about $670,000 to Mid-Coast Marine Corporation, Coos Bay, Ore., for the drydocking of two buoy tenders.

    The Alaskan-based vessels, the USS Ironwood, from Cordova, and the USS Sweet Briar, from Kodiak, will be stationed in the International Port of Coos Bay until May 21, 1988. They will be overhauled in the port's drydock.

    Frank Martin, port general manager, stated: "Through the efforts of our Congressional delegation, Oregon now has a greater bidding opportunity on Coast Guard work. This port can now also bid on the USS Clover out of Eureka, in addition to nine other Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Californiabased vessels." This announcement follows a decision by the U.S. Government to allow the Polish North American fishing fleet to potentially do major repair work at Coos Bay. Coos Bay is the only U.S. West Coast port with such an allowance.

    Furthermore, construction is now under way on a new ship-repair facility at the port's Charleston Industrial Annex to develop a fabrication and repair center for local commercial fishing vessels.

    For further details on the Port of Coos Bay ship-repair facilities, Circle 48 on Reader Service Card

  • 10 million tons of coal annually. It is expected to be operating in January 1984. The facility is the third such project announced by a U.S. West Coast port in recent months. The Port of Long Beach is building a terminal that eventually will serve 30 million tons of coal, and the Port of

  • Pirates have struck again! The latest attack came recently in the waters off Colombia's west coast Port of Buenaventura as the Lykes Lines ship Mason Lykes rested at anchor. Because the ship was deep in the water, Colombian pilots had refused to bring it to dock during the night of its arrival

  • of the Columbia River, can continue its eastward journey to finally tie up at the Port of Lewiston, in Lewiston, Idaho, America’s most inland West Coast port, 465 miles from the Pacific Ocean.The Columbia and Snake Rivers form that critical east-west waterway, an economic powerhouse regionally, nationally

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    ronments. The new agreement will address speci? c techni- cal gaps in the UUV defense and offshore energy markets especially for long duration, multi-payload mission opera- tions where communications are often denied or restricted. As part of the new alliance, Metron’s Resilient Mission Autonomy portfolio

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    Photo courtesy Global Ocean Design Figure 7 A 35Ah AGM lead-acid battery is tested using the West Mountain Radio CBA to show the effect of simply ? lling the battery voids with mineral oil as a compensating ? uid. The CBA is programmed to cut-off at a voltage of 10.50v. The top line (red) shows the

  • MT Mar-24#38 LANDER LAB #10
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    LANDER LAB #10 Photo courtesy West Mountain Radio Photo courtesy of Clarios/AutoBatteries.com Figure 6 The West Mountain Radio Computerized Battery Analyzer (CBA V) attaches to a Figure 5 laptop by a USB-B cable, and to a battery by Powerpole® Connectors. Exploded view of an AGM lead-acid battery.

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    will advance with succeeding charging cycles, presumably due to gas generation during recharge. A battery capacity test, described below with the West Mountain Radio CBA V, can be done to replicate this experiment yourself. (See Figure 7.) ? Gel cell Sealed Lead-Acid (SLA) batteries substitute a

  • MT Mar-24#36 LANDER LAB #10
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    LANDER LAB #10 Of special interest for marine applications, LiPo batteries are Shipping any kind of lithium battery can be a challenge, and offered in a “pouch” design, with a soft, ? at body. The pouch IATA regs vary with the batteries inside or outside an instru- is vacuum-sealed, with all voids ?

  • MT Mar-24#35 Figure 1
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    Figure 1 A self-righting vehicle design with buoyancy high and weight low, WHOI’s SeaBED AUV captures the attention of a pair of curious Antarctic penguins as it is deployed from the British research vessel James Clark Ross. Vehicle designers allowed for temperature reduction of battery capacity. Recharge

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    regulated industry in the world.” How- ever, commercial success depends on many factors, not least a predictable OPEX. Over the past four years, SMD has worked with Oil States Industries to calculate cost per tonne ? gures for prospective customers. Patania II uses jet water pumps to Oil States’

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    FEATURE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION & SENSORS Kevin Mackay, TESMaP voyage leader and Center head of the South and West Paci? c Regional Centre of Seabed 2030. Kevin in the seismic lab at Greta Point looking at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano 3D map completed with data from the TESMaP voyage

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    collecting (formerly known as Lo`ihi, the youngest suggest the volcano was still erupting, video images of the eruption’s impact. volcano in Hawai`i) and West Mata vol- with a dense ash layer found in the up- Equipment on board included a deep- cano in the Tonga arc. “We’ve seen a ton per water column near

  • MT Mar-24#9 from marinas along the western coast. The exact number)
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    from marinas along the western coast. The exact number of lizing laser detection systems can detect mines just below the mines, as well as their locations, remains largely a mystery, surface, even those hiding in murky water. The Airborne Laser although reports suggest that over three hundred have been

  • MT Mar-24#4 Editorial
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    Editorial NIWA-Nippon Foundation TESMaP/ Rebekah Parsons-King www.marinetechnologynews.com ast month marked the resounding NEW YORK 118 E. 25th St., New York, NY 10010 return of Oceanology Interna- Tel: (212) 477-6700; Fax: (212) 254-6271 tional in London, perennially one Lof the world’s most important

  • MR Apr-24#43 “The industry is an 
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    “The industry is an ecosystem which includes owners, managers, mariners, shipyards, equipment makers, designers, research institutes and class societies: all of them are crucial,” – Eero Lehtovaara, Head of Regulatory & Public Affairs, ABB Marine & Ports All images courtesy ABB Marine and Ports provi

  • MR Apr-24#42 OPINION: The Final Word
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    OPINION: The Final Word Seeing the Ship as a System Shipping must engage with the decarbonization realities that lie ahead by changing the way it crafts maritime legislation to re? ect its place in the interconnected, interdependent world economy, said Eero Lehtovaara, ABB Marine & Ports. ABB Marine &

  • MR Apr-24#41 Nautel provides innovative, industry-leading solutions)
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    Nautel provides innovative, industry-leading solutions speci? cally designed for use in harsh maritime environments: • GMDSS/NAVTEX/NAVDAT coastal surveillance and transmission systems • Offshore NDB non-directional radio beacon systems for oil platform, support vessel & wind farm applications

  • MR Apr-24#40 TECH FEATURE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS 
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    TECH FEATURE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS SITUATIONAL AWARENESS SYSTEM BATTLES COGNITIVE FATIGUE IN WATCHKEEPERS All images courtesy Groke Technologies Today’s evolving maritime security risks pose all-too-familiar threats to international shipping, and as just one of the many causes of fatigue, they add

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    Tech Files Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs Zero-Emission Mooring Service of a Tanker Consulmar achieved a milestone by executing what it calls ing boat Castalia, which operates on full electric propulsion. the world's ? rst zero-emissions mooring service for a tanker. Equipped with two 150 kW

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    SIMULATION "A simulated vessel ? ooding can help teams work together to solve the challenge using different systems on the bridge." – Jussi Siltanen, Lead, "The gami? cation of Product Marketing, learning makes it fun." Safety Solutions at NAPA – Captain Pradeep Chawla, Founder, MarinePALS Image

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    installation time Contracts Director. “Ports are a major bottleneck at the mo- enough to make it comparable to ? xed wind, says Green. ment, certainly in Western Europe.” The development of the ? oating wind industry will be differ- The crane will have two hooks, one on the main boom and ent to that of

  • MR Apr-24#27 RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND
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    RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND With COVID, we had to make some hard choices for our Do your CIVMARs have upward mobility? mariners because we couldn’t rotate. Many of our mariners The Navy has Sailors who become “Mustangs,” and work found other employment, and were able to use their skills

  • MR Apr-24#25 RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND
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    RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND Photo by Brian Suriani USN Military Sealift Command From a global supply chain perspective, What makes MSC so vital to the we’ve learned a lot about dealing with Navy’s ? eet and our military disruptions. COVID delivered a big forces around the world? wake-up

  • MR Apr-24#22 INTERVIEW 
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    INTERVIEW WE ARE ENGAGED WITH MULTIPLE US OSW WIND DEVELOPMENTS AND SEEING AN UP-TICK FOR CVA, TECHNOLOGY REVIEW AND RISK REDUCTION SERVICES IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT PHASES. WITH NEW LEASE ROUNDS COMING AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES, WE DO NOT SEE A BIG SLOWDOWN FOR OSW DEVELOPMENTS APART FROM THE OBVIOUS

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    ROB LANGFORD, VP, GLOBAL OFFSHORE WIND ob Langford has worked in the offshore industry ABS. “We are growing and evolving our services across all for more than three decades, ‘cutting his teeth’ offshore infrastructure along with our continued support to the in a UK design ? rm working in the North Sea

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    MARKETS & gas activity returns, we anticipate that supply of the vessels The Question of Emissions to offshore wind projects will reduce, driving demand for ad- Given that SOVs and CSOVs operate in a segment target- ditional CSOVs. ing reduced emissions, and many operate in the North Eu- Outside of China

  • MR Apr-24#6 Editorial
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    Editorial MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS his month’s coverage is M A R I N E L I N K . C O M almost an afterthought HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor following the tragedy that New York, NY 10010 USA T +1.212.477.6700 Tunfolded in Baltimore in the wee hours of Tuesday, March 26, CEO John C.