Marine News, August 2005

<BODY> <div> August, 2005 • MarineNews 21 Circle 237 on Reader Service Card Circle 236 on Reader Service Card Marine Towing of Tampa Tampa, FL AVIK WHAT DO THESE NEW TUGS HAVE IN COMMON? Foss Maritime Seattle, WA MARSHALL FOSS Washington Marine Group Vancouver, BC Crowley Marine Services Seattle, WA M A R I T I M E “INNOVATIVE FENDERING SOLUTIONS” Two Manufacturing Facilities www.schuylerrubber.com 16901 Wood-Red Road Woodinville, WA 98072 Phone 800-426-3917 Fax (425) 488-2424 204 Ida Road Broussard, LA 70518 Local Phone (337) 248-1426 Toll Free 866-347-9445 Fax (337) 837-3610 Western Towboat Seattle, WA Providence Steamboat Co. Providence, RI Hawaiian Tug & Barge Honolulu, HI Crowley Maritime Oakland, CA Alcan Gove Northern Territory, Australia BARU SEASPAN VENTURE SEASPAN TEMPEST OCEAN TITAN RAINBOW MIKIOI COASTAL RELIANCEINDEPENDENT Salt-Away Products, Inc. • 1533 East McFadden Avenue, Suite B • Santa Ana, CA 92705 (714) 550-0987 • Fax: (714) 550-7787 • Toll Free: 888- SALT-AWAY (725-8292) e-mail: sales@saltawayproducts.com • www.saltawayproducts.com such as caller ID, call waiting, voice mail plus data services," Wright added. Nonincendive Wireless Phone "While responding to the needs and requests of our offshore oil customers, we found that a telephone for use in poten- tially hazardous environments or locations was not available," Wright noted. Called nonincendive phones, PetroCom is mak- ing them available for Class 1 Division 2 use. "Now that we are in production, we have found workers in other hazardous industries have been looking for this type of phone as well," Wright said. Manufactured by Ecom Instruments for PetroCom, these phones incorporate elec- trical and mechanical modifications as well as the addition of special safety pro- tective electronics. These phones are usable in situations where hazardous con- centrations of flammable gas or vapors exist under unlikely conditions of opera- tion and are built of a highly durable splash-proof material. Satellite Services In 1995, PetroCom commercialized their expertise in the C-band and Ku-band frequencies and today operates one of the industry's largest VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) networks. These private networks offer high- speed data transmission, voice, fax and Internet access communications-regard- less of weather or movement. PetroCom can engineer, construction and commission permanent VSAT earth stations whether in the city or offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. This system provides offshore workers all of the network services they rely on when in the corporate office. The offshore site becomes a node of the company LAN for email, file transfers, corporate applica- tions and Internet access. Regardless of where company personal may be in the gulf, they can make tele- phone calls as if they were working local- ly in their corporate office. PetroCom can engineer the remote VSAT system to provide U.S. dial tone or dedicated terrestrial connectivity to the company PABX, allowing extension (four digit) dialing and company-defined fea- tures. �3�I�M�P�L�E�X� �#�O�M�P�A�C�T �¤ �S�L�A�E�3 �-�D�A�E��O�N�L�Y� �I�N�'�E�R�M�N�A�Y �A�3�L �V�R�E�3��S�E�R�A�P�3��S�E�I�O�.��N�I��E�C�R�T�R�E�M�!��H�I�A�C �3�I �P�M�L�X�E�E�M�!�R�I�S�A�C�#�,�,��N�O�L�Y� �� I�N�F �S� �O�I�P�M�L �E�M�A�X�E�R�I�S�A�C��O�C�M Circle 240 on Reader Service Card AUGUSTMN2005 3(17-24).qxd 8/1/2005 4:24 PM Page 21 </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>