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- Michael J. Stewart Retires Marine Technology, Jan 2015 #61
When Marine Technology Reporter visited the Oceans 2014 exhibition in St. Johns in September we learned that Michael J. Stewart, a ubiquitous figure in the subsea sector for more than four decades, will retire from McArtney effective this month. Stewart has been with MacArtney for more than 20 years in a variety of forms, made permanent when MacArtney bought his company MJ Stewart Associates.
“When I first started with the company (MacArtney) we were about $6-7 million (per year) and now we are more than $100 million,” said Stewart. “It has been a great run, they are a great company; they do a really good job of understanding the business that they are in. MacArtney sees what the customer needs, and then they aim to become the preferred solution. They spend money to make money: they make the investments that they need to make and I think that’s a key why we have grown so fast and stayed profitable.”
Stewart began his career in the subsea world after graduating from the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in 1965. After sailing with the U.S. merchant marine during the Vietnam War, Stewart was lured ashore courtesy of a request from his wife, and a job with a company that was making marine radio facsimile for weather charts, which led to involvement with the company’s sonar products.
Stewart’s career has been broad and interesting, including work and personal relationships with some industry luminaries including Bob Ballard, Marty Klein and Charlie Black.
In fact, for some time he ran a company with Bob Ballard, the company Marquest. “I was supplying equipment, and Ballard needed someone to run his company so we made a perfect pair. I knew how to run operations, and he had the vision and charisma … he was the leader.” Marquest was built to more than 40 people, but as Stewart succinctly summarized: “the Cold War ended,” and so too did Marquest. Following Marquest Stewart opened MJ Stewart Associates, which he ran until MacArtney bought the organization. In reflecting on the breadth of his career, Stewart reckons that while technology has changed mightily in capability and price, one thing remains the same. “The technology has changed. We sold GPS systems for a million dollars that gave you 20m accuracy back in the early 80s; now I have a chart on my iPhone that’s better than that,” said Stewart. “But the people are the same. Bottom line, you have to have people that can go to sea, and make this stuff work at sea, and that’s a whole different ballgame.”
As Stewart sails toward retirement and ponders working his golf game (not that he needs it, with a handicap of 8) and future courses of cruise on his 33-ft. Grady White, he is proud of the legacy he has left and is particularly proud that his daughter Jennifer remains at the helm of MacArtney Northeast Operations.
“What I’m most proud of is building a business and seeing it grow from one customer in North America to a multi-million dollar business, and being respected by the industry for the product we sell,” said Stewart. Not quite yet in retirement mode, he emphasized that “we try not to sell a product, we sell a solution.”

(As published in the January/February 2015 edition of Marine Technology Reporter - http://www.marinetechnologynews.com/Magazine)
- Klein's Side Scan Sonar, Then and Now Marine Technology, Sep 2017 #16
other things, I found a Wellington bomber from World War II that was since raised and put in a museum in Brooklands in England. We were involved with Bob Ballard in the search for Titanic. We were involved with the search for the Edinburgh that held gold bars from Russia. We were involved with the De Braak
- Rhode Island An Ocean of Opportunity Marine Technology, Mar 2013 #35
as to what one colleague calls “the greatest living explorer on the planet,” oceanography rock star, marine archeologist and former naval officer Dr. Bob Ballard. Ocean State boosters keep coming back to the surrounding marine environment – starting with Narragansett Bay, a deep, natural harbor – and the
- URI Scientist Seeks Technology Solutions Marine Technology, Mar 2013 #40
of oceanography” - biological, chemical, geological, and physical - as well as in archaeological oceanography, the specialty area of ocean explorer Dr. Bob Ballard. A “Blue MBA” is offered in conjunction with URI’s College of Business Administration. According to university figures, GSO researchers conduct
- View from the Top: Dr. James Delgado, NOAA Director of Maritime Heritage Marine Technology, Sep 2016 #9
stuff happens with people who know something and step forward to do it. What current wreck investigations are you working on? I’m working with Bob Ballard (naval officer, professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, and the scientist who led the team that found Titanic in 1985) to plan

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faced all three of those challenges in getting the charge. The boat actually went easier.” The microgrid charging facility features a pair of Corvus Orca BOB (battery on board) systems, the containerized version of the Corvus Orca ESS, each with storage capac- ity of almost 1.5 MWh, for a total capacity
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and recognize readiness. In fact, on March 12, Wisconsin Senator Tammy the importance of strengthening the Jones Act. Baldwin, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey and the United First, the U.S. must create a de? nable national maritime Steelworkers, among others, joined together to call for the strategy
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PTI/PTO 30 years ago shaft generators with PTI capability kept container ships sailing at top speed. That purpose gone, PTI/PTO is making a new comeback in more cargo shipping segments, this time for reducing emissions. By Wendy Laursen etro? tting a shaft generator is not an insigni? - the ef? ciency
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in a previous study published in 2019 – potentially the result of better weather forecasts and improved marking and tracking of ? shing gear. President Bob Shortridge says Lignum Vi- tae’s water-lubricated stern tube bearings stand out for its longevity and shock resistance. The company places a strong
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People & Companies Rella Hired as Wiltshire Leading Port Everglades St. Johns President Glenn A. Wiltshire has taken over as Joe Rella has been appointed as presi- acting director of Broward County’s Port Rella Barton dent of St. Johns Ship Building. Everglades Department. Barton Named Vineyard CEO New
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vice president and general manager of designed shoreside station featuring two Corvus Orca Crowley Shipping. “We are thrilled to reach this important BOBs (battery on board), the containerized version of achievement for our company and the U.S. maritime in- the Corvus Orca ESS. dustry through the collaboratio
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Feature Offshore Wind © Eric Dale Creative / Adobe Stock US OFFSHORE WIND: D N OOWN BUT OT UT By Eric Haun – Bob Dylan “The winds of change are blowing wild and free.” n the U.S. offshore wind industry, developments over are many stakeholders still committed to ensuring offshore recent months have
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Institution in 2003 and was founded by three people: mate variability, especially in the deepest waters. But this accu- Neil Brown, Dr. Ray Schmitt and Bob Petitt. racy comes at the cost of size and power, fragility of the sensor, As a WHOI scientist myself 20 years ago, I was ‘customer potentially complex
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work around San Diego harbor. The battery powered boat systems. The actual propulsion is provided by a pair of 575 (6 Mwh overall, two Corvus Orca BOBs—the container- kW Danfoss motors, powered by a Corvus Orca series bat- ized version the Corvus Orca, for energy storage), will use tery array providing
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Column Nuclear Will the Effort to Reach Zero Emissions Go Nuclear? By Bob Kunkel, President, Alternative Marine Technologies On December 8, 1953 merchant ship. She was built in the late 1950s at a cost President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the 470th Ple- of $46.9 million and launched on July 21
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.” Austin Davis, the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania; Col. Nicholas Melin, the commander of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Pittsburgh; U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania; Jaime A. Pinkham, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the
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themselves, key built winches for jeep tugs and mercy ships especially. both aware of the marine industry and Markey’s reputa- In 1978, Blaine Dempke and Bob LeCoque joined tion for quality. Six months later we had new majority the company, starting out at the bottom. LeCoque was a owners. I continue to
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most the same is our focus on customer service. Scott Prior to 2017, VideoRay was a low-cost provider of relatively Bentley founded the company with Bob Christ, and myself as reliable, rugged, football-sized ROV equipment. well as a lot of other people here at VideoRay have software But we saw changes
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Victor Vescovo, for example, has completed 15 successful of economically important natural and cultural resources. submersible dives to Challenger Deep in the DNV-certi? ed For these reasons, I signed an agreement with Victor Vescovo submersible Limiting Factor, in addition to reaching all four which
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and methanol are fea- Shoreside charging will be done through a pair of Corvus sible non-fossil fuel alternatives because they can be used in Orca BOBs (the Corvus battery, housed in a 20’ container), at some existing marine engines and are supported by current quayside when the tug is between jobs
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for ChatGPT, and half to make a few small language model may not have a deep understanding of mari- edits. Whatever your view on this, make no mistake. Bob was time operations and may produce inaccurate or misleading never more correct than now - the times they are a-changin’. information. Additionally
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U.S. Navy to Name Oceanographic Survey Ship In 2019, Nautilus plied the Paci? c waters off the USNS island of Nikuma- roro, searching for any sign of Amelia Earhart’s Robert lost plane. In the cool, dark control room, we kept a 24-hour vigil. Ballard The U.S. Navy’s next Path? nder-class
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large [like a dry- founded 25 years ago, and still run today by one dock],” said Shah. “Most of the larger shipyards in the U.S. are of its co-founders, Bob Heger. “We are experts in busy building Navy ships, so they don’t want to take time away S? oating dry dock designs,” said Shah. “We’re a from their
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here on the Outer Banks is a historic moment and will be a game-changer for watermen in Dare County,” said Dare County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bob Woodard. “Commercial and rec- reational ? shing are not just enormous economic drivers in our community; they’ve also been a way of life for thou- sands
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Column Offshore Wind Fortunes Return to the Sea as the Wind Blows Offshore By Bob Kunkel, Alternative Marine Technologies some of the problems, heralding a world of change with The results of fortunes reduced emissions, government support and the end of fos- and failures are often described as a