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12 MTR November 2005 Safeguard Concludes SALVEX Joint Subsea Ops in Asia Technip and Subsea 7 signed a MOU whereby their affiliates Technip Oceania and Subsea 7 Singapore will form a jointly operated company for subsea offshore activ- ities in the Asia Pacific region (excluding India and Middle-East). Technip and Subsea 7 will bid for and carry out all EPCIM (engineering, procurement, con- struction, installation, commissioning and/or maintenance) contracts for the sub- sea production and transportation of oil and gas within the Asia Pacific region, including the supply of flexible pipe via the Technip/Subsea 7 joint venture. Bluefin Wins BPAUV Contract Bluefin Robotics won a $6.6m cost-plus- award-fee/cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Battlespace Preparation Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (BPAUV) design and development. The BPAUV is a system capa- ble of bottom-mapping and gathering other oceanographic data to support the Littoral Combat Ship Mine Warfare Mission Module. The BPAUV is intended as an autonomous unmanned system capable of meeting clandestine intelligence, surveil- lance, reconnaissance, and survey require- ments. Work will be performed in Cambridge, Mass. news USS Safeguard (ARS 50) completed the first Salvage Exercise (SALVEX) with the Indian Navy on September 24, after con- ducting 12 days of combined dive exercises off of India's western coast city of Cochin and its surrounding waters. U.S. Navy divers worked closely with their Indian counterparts at SALVEX, a combined classroom and in-port training with at-sea dives and salvage exercises. In the course of two weeks, Safeguard crew members toured Indian training facilities, completed familiarization dives on Safeguard's dive system with Indian divers, conducted in-harbor salvage exercises and salvaged the wreckage of an Indian navy air- craft. Safeguard (ARS 50) is a forward deployed rescue and salvage ship operating out of Sasebo, Japan, and is part of Task Force 76, the Navy's only forward-deployed amphibi- ous force. MTR#3 (1-16).qxd 11/15/2005 3:20 PM Page 14
