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When “Seafloor Engineering” was tapped as the feature topic of this edition, little did we know that a pair of powerful hurricanes would serve to make the coverage all too timely. At press time, nearly two and a half months after the first and worst hurricane — Katrina — blew ashore and swamped the coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, government and industry were still working overtime to produce a full assessment of subsea damage and determine a timeline for recovery. While realistic numbers are still difficult to conjure, it is safe to state that undersea and salvage work in the area will be at full capacity for many months. Maggie Merrill doggedly pursued endless leads to deliver an overview of the damage, with insights on specific technologies employed to get the job done. Freelance writer Don Sutherland, a regular in the pages of MTR sister-publication MarineNews, was down south for more than three weeks, and we deliver his unique perspective starting on page 30. Greg Trauthwein Associate Publisher & Editor trauthwein@marinelink.com 4 MTR November 2005 editorial Your Marine Technology One-Stop-Shop www.seadiscovery.com Log on everyday and receive: • Daily News Exclusive Product & Technology Reports New Job Listings Or, join thousands of your colleagues and sign up for our weekly NEWS & JOB Updates via E-mail. It’s Fast ... and FREE! Subscription: To subscribe please visit www.seadiscovery.com/mt/mtMagazine.asp Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences (AUAS) 50 Aker Kvaerner Subsea 9, 51, 52 Aker Marine Contractors 14, 15 American Salvage Association (ASA) 31, 32 Applanix 27, 48 Applied Geomechanics Inc. (AGI) 57 BAE Systems 8 BASF 9 Benthos, Inc. 25 Bluefin Robotics 12 Bollinger 64 BP 51, 56 C&C Technologies 15, 24 Canadian National Research Council (NRC) 44 Caterpillar 20 Chelsea Technologies Group (CTG) 56 Day's Inn 31 DeepSea Power & Lights 55 DEFRA 11 Diamond Offshore 25 Donjon Marine 32, 64 Douglas Westwood Ltd. 13 E.on 9 ECA 56 Edgetech 29, 40 Elliot Bay Design Group (EBDG) 11 English Heritage 7 European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling 16 FEMA 32 Finnish Navy 40 Flotation Technologies 59 French Marine Institute (IFREMER) 55 FrogEye 48 Fugro GEOS 14, 15, 24 Fugro Pelagos, Inc. 48, 53 Gazprom 9 Geoconsult AS 53 Glomar 25 Hafmynd (Gavia) 42, 43, 44, 45, 58 Harvard University 21 Hydroid, Inc. 8 Icelandic Coast Guard 44 Indian Navy 12 Inmarsat 40 Innovatum International 54 IEEE 50 InterOcean 57, 58 J. Ray McDermott, S.A. 16 JDR Cable 52 Kongsberg Maritime 10, 38, 40, 41 Lincoln Laboratory 17 LinkQuest Ltd. 44 Lithion Inc. 55 Lockheed Martin 48, 52 Manchester University 50 Marin Mätteknik AB 13 Marine Technology Society (MTS) 50 Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) 25 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute 8 National Geographic Society 49 NOAA 11, 16, 18, 19 National Science Foundation 10 NATO Undersea Research Center 39 Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAVAIR) 8 Naval Electronics Lab (NEL) 49 Naval Undersea Warfare Center 55 Nexans 54 Noble 25 Noise Control Engineering (NCE) 20 Ocean Technology Foundation (OTF) 7 Oceaneering 24 Office of Coast Survey 32 Office of Naval Research (ONR) 8 Oregon State University 8 Perry Slingsby Systems (PSS) 52, 53 Rapp Hydema 19 ROVer's Eye 47 Royal Navy 9 Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN) 38, 41 Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab 50 Saft 59 Schilling Robotics 51, 56 SAIC 24, 34, 37 Scripps Institution of Oceanography 49, 50, 53 SEA, Ltd. 29 SeaBotix Inc. 54 Seaeye 56 SHOALS 58 Simrad 55 Sonavision Limited 55 Sonsub 51 SRI International 11 Subsea 7 12, 52 Sunwest Technologies, Inc. 55 Sutron 59 T&T Marine 30, 31, 32, 64 Technip 12 Thalassa 55 Association of Marine Scientific Industries (AMSI) 11 CEFAS 11 The College of Exploration 7 Intl. Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES) 20 The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) 57 The National Ocean Service 25 Univ. of NH Center for Coastal Ocean Mapping 7 Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation 16 Transocean 25 Transoceanic Cable Ship Company, Inc. (TCSC) 51 TRIAXYS 57 Triton 48, 53 TSS (International) Ltd. 52 Tyco Telecommunications 51 USACE 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 53 U.S. Department of Interior 29 U.S. National Academy of Sciences 21 U.S. National Science Foundation 53 U.S. Naval Historical Center 7 Underwater Society of America 50 United States Geological Survey (USGS) 28, 29 Utrok Atoll Local Government (UALGOV) 11 VideoRay 15 VT Halter Marine 18, 19, 20 WHOI 8, 10, 21, 28, 50 Editorial Index Companies with editorial mention in this edition All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior writ- ten permission of the publishers. 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