American Marine has appointed as nonexecutive chairman assuming he is Daniel Zech as the its new business de- reelected to the board. velopment manager. Tyler Krewsky Tyler Named BMT Chairman Brennan Named National BMT appointed Ian Tyler as chair- Hurricane Center Director man of BMT Group Ltd. Tyler
INTERVIEW RICHARD BOURQUE, COO, C-I “We looked at the downturn as an opportunity for us to grow, and during that time we started our survey services, we started our pipeline remediation services, we started IMR work, and we started well intervention work.” Richard Bourque, COO, C-Innovation in the
As C-Innovation celebrates 15 years in business, we caught up with Richard Bourque, COO, to discuss how the company went from three ROVs and 25 people in 2007 to 57 ROVs and more than 650 people – with an of? ce in Brazil and a substantial operation in Guyana – in just 15 years. By Greg Trauthwein
INTERVIEW RICHARD BOURQUE, COO, C-I C-I NNOVATION Charts its Growth Path All photos courtesy C-I aintaining corporate equilibrium through busi- 57 ROVs – the largest owner and operator of Schilling Robot- ness cycles is a challenge for all, but companies ics ROV systems in the world, with a plan to grow
carried out in Norwegian waters as tional module consisting of four cameras part of the Balder X project. performs a full 360-degree close visual Tyler de Gier, GM, Welaptega, said inspection of the riser or rope surface. “This project with Ocean Installer marks The RCIS, which can be used for un- the
People & Companies CEO of OXE Marine, succeeding My- Burns to Lead Mass. ron Mahendra, who will assume the Maritime’s Renewables Work position of EVP business development, The Massachusetts Maritime Acade- my announced Capt. Michael R. Burns sales and marketing. Burns Mahaffey Jr. as the ? rst
Schilling Robotics in TechnipFMC, told the Underwater Tech- port launch and recovery operations and vehicle con? guration nology Conference, held online in June. Staying subsea longer and maintenance, he says. But also having onshore pilots low- is also part of it; Gemini has achieved a 28-day dive
Isurus is based on Oceaneering’s Magnum Work Class ROV system with a hydrodynamic design. There are tentative signs of the start of a renewal in the work class ROV ? eet. But what form will it take? By Elaine Maslin he work class ROV (WCROV) market has taken some- Oceaneering’s Isurus, launched in
Who’s News? Latest People & Company News sent its operations in Brazil as part of the business’ long-term growth strategy in South America. Deepsea Technologies provides engineered products and ser- vices to the oil and gas industry global- ly. It has a key focus in delivering solu- tions for subsea and
AUTONOMY survey equipment, mostly housed in a subsea gondola. crewed systems also relies on communications, to be able This will include an inertial navigation system (with in- to control the systems, and data transfer – as much of their tegrated acoustic Doppler current pro? ler/Doppler veloc- work and
All images courtesy of Ocean In? nity early developer of USVs now owned by L3Harris. What we realized, Hook says, is that small USV systems could only do so much so, while there was take up in the defense sector, for mine and submarine hunting, other sectors were slower to adopt such systems beyond
water. The afford to take to the seas with substandard equipment. boats must always stay in motion, which keeps the bait No one knew this better than Tyler McLaughlin, captain “swimming” as naturally as possible. of the 45-foot boat, the PinWheel. Featured on the origi- Due to this technique, the most
tooling, including the motors, are on the vehicle so that the Getting a Grip interchangeable tools (suites of which can be kept, ready to Grip Offshore is also working on a fully electric manipula- use, subsea) can be as simple and robust as possible. tor, called eManip7. Bjarte Nedrehagen, the company’s
tion across sectors to connect local and international com- Applied research and new marine tech The Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial Univer- panies in the ocean industry, its ? ve main areas of operation sity of Newfoundland, (the Marine Institute) in St John’s, being marine transportation
, Co-Founder; John Motlow, VP Marketing and Strategy; Charlie Moreover, the majority of vessels will re- quire liquid hydrogen based on their re- Walther; Tyler Foster; Rose Dawydiak-Rapagnani; Thomas Escher, Co-Founder; and quired endurance since liquid hydrogen Dan Johnson. has a considerably higher energy
INSIGHTS (IRPT), a Member of the USDOT Marine Transportation, a former board member of the National Waterways Con- ference and a current member of IRPT and many other industry af? liations too numerous to list here. Today, Wilmsmeyer and his ACP sit at the heart of the U.S. inland waterways equation
of Dresser-Rand’s ticulates from up to 16 different loca- Government business unit (see box be- tions with a single ventilator. low). We spoke with Tyler Smith – Su- pervisor, COPPUS Portable Ventilators, When was the kit was developed and for insights on business prospects in the where it is deployed
Image: Elaine Maslin on feature-based identi? cation for navigation, enhanced sta- Freedom tion keeping, remote control from an unmanned surface vessel One of the latest concepts to emerge on the market is Ocea- (ASV) and also to demonstrate and commercialize 3D terrain neering’s Freedom. Oceaneering
Christopher Katalinus NOAA Sea Grant Sonardyne Maine oyster farmers Jeff McKeen and Tyler Hild. vessel, Deep Volans, and con? gured it to laying business in exchange for an eq- intelligence-based navigation software track a WSM 6+ transponder mounted uity stake of 23.6 percent in Global Ma- into unique
, which is the Crowley Maritime Corp. has awarded a Thomas largest luxury operator on the Douro River uti- B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarship to Tyler lizing 16 vessels. Ferreira anticipates at least an- Gray-Hoehn, class of 2018 at the Webb Insti- other three vessels besides World Explorer to be
Sam- Hasuly, P.E. Hasuly has recently joined TSGI as uel Comerford, Alex Yonkman, Kent Treptow a naval architect. She is a licensed Professional and Tyler Sayvetz. Engineer in the state of Texas and holds a B.S. in • Comerford, class of 2020, is a sophomore from Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
using drones, drop pods and machine learning to map in a Duke Data+ Summer Program and they are hosting 12 the sea? oor. Led by Professors Martin Brooke, Tyler Bletsch high school students with robotics experience to help with and Douglas Nowacek, the team is an enthusiastic group of their ? nal build.
machine learning and ees. BluHaptics has won several grants force feedback to provide from multiple agencies, including Na- safety and ef? ciency pre- tional Science Foundation, DOD and viously not possible with NASA. analog/standard control. The company is currently developing Its software is
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