Kvaerner Delivers New
Flying Cat High-Speed
Catamaran To Greece
Kvaerner's 40M Flying Cat will sail in the
Sea-Spetsai service in Greece, and has a
capacity of 352 passengers, including 92 on
the top deck.
The first foreign delivery of the
new Flying Cat high-speed catama-
rans from Kvaerner Fjellstrand, a
member of Norway's Kvaerner
group, has been made to Greek ship-
owner Ceres Hellenic Shipping &
Co.
This is the second Flying Cat to
be built by Fjellstrand's Omastrand
yard south of Bergen. The first went
to a Norwegian ferry operator this
past April, and a third unit was
delivered to Thailand in December.
The catamaran supplied to Ceres
joins a fleet of 25 hydrofoil craft
which mainly provide ferry services
between Athens and Greek islands
in the Aegean.
Equipped with two engines and
water jets developing a combined
4,000 kw, the vessel has a top speed
of 38 knots and a service speed of 35
knots. It measures approximately
131 feet long by about 33 feet wide.
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and capabilities of Kvaerner Fjell-
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Sonat Asks MarAd
Permission To Sell
Drilling Rig
The Maritime Administration
(MarAd) has received an applica-
tion from Sonat Offshore Drilling,
Inc. of Houston, Texas, for permis-
sion to sell and transfer to Pana-
manian registry the 37,363-dwt
drilling rig Henry Goodrich. The
proposed purchaser is Arcade Drill-
ing A/S, Oslo, Norway. The vessel
would be used in worldwide drilling
operations, primarily in the United
Kingdom or Norwegian section of
the North Sea.
The vessel was built in Tamano,
Japan, in 1985. MarAd permission is
required by section 9 of the Ship-
ping Act of 1916, as amended.
New Simrad Echo Sounder
Goes Into Operation
The first EM12 full ocean depth
multibeam echo sounder from Sim-
rad Subsea A/S, Horten, Norway,
has gone into operation on the re-
search vessel Ocean Surveyor, oper-
ated by Worldwide Ocean Survey-
ing Ltd., England. The EM12 data
has been collected for the scientific
and commercial sectors and pro-
cessed into working charts and ter-
rain models.
January, 1991
The Simrad EM12 is the first
third generation deep sea multi-
beam echo sounder, with a sector
coverage of either 90 degrees with 81
beams, or 150 degrees with 151
beams. The first commercially
available deep sea multibeam echo
sounder, the Sea Beam, made its
debut 15 years ago, with sector cov-
erage of 40 degrees with 16 beams.
Ten years later, Simrad introduced
its second generation of multibeam
echo sounders, increasing sector
coverage to 90 degrees with 50-60
beams. Besides increasing coverage
and number of beams, the new
EM12 also has a new feature, seabed
imaging. The seabed image created
is comparable to a side scan image
in detail, but is bathymetrically cor-
rected both on screen and hardcopy
recorder.
The first EM12 installed on the
Ocean Surveyor went through in-
tensive trials in the Bay of Biscay in
September. According to Simrad,
the trials showed that the unique
phase detection principle used in
the EM 12 provided the benefits of
higher accuracy, better range capa-
bility, and less weather dependence
as compared to other systems.
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new Simrad EM12 echo sounder,
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continents by timetables that are
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