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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 5 Maggie Linskey Merrill is the founding editor and publisher of Marine Technology Reporter. She has 20 years experience communicating marine science, technology, environmental and engineering news and information. She has held positions at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, HA Perry Foundation and Sea Data Corporation. In 1993 she founded MTR and the Marine and Oceanographic Technology Network (MOTN). (Story on page 26) www.seadiscovery.com NEW YORK 118 E. 25th St., New York, NY 10010 Tel: (212) 477-6700; Fax: (212) 254-6271 FLORIDA 215 NW 3rd St., Boynton Beach, FL 33435 Tel: (561) 732-1659; Fax: (561) 732-6984 PUBLISHER John C. O'Malley • jomalley@marinelink.com Associate Publisher & Editor Gregory R. Trauthwein trauthwein@marinelink.com Editorial Director Maggie Merrill martrep@aol.com Editorial Intern Melissa Mendoza mendoza@marinelink.com Production Manager John Guzman guzman@marinelink.com Asst. Production Manager Irina Tabakina tabakina@marinelink.com Manager, Information Services Tina Veselov veselov@marinelink.com Manager, Accounting Services Esther Rothenberger rothenberger@marinelink.com Manager, Public Relations Mark O’Malley momalley@marinelink.com Manager, Information Technology Services Vladimir Bibik bibik@marinelink.com CIRCULATION Kathleen Hickey mtrcirc@marinelink.com ADVERTISING Sales Manager Dominick Daddio daddio@marinelink.com Senior Vice President, Sales Brett W. Keil bkeil@marinelink.com Tel: (561) 732-1185; Fax: (561) 732-8414 Senior Vice President, Sales Rob Howard howard@marinelink.com Tel: (561) 732-4368; Fax: (561) 732-6984 Vice President of Sales Lucia M. Annunziata annunziata@marinelink.com Classified Ad Sales Dale L. Barnett barnett@marinelink.com Managing Director, International Sales Tony Stein tony.r.stein@btinternet.com 12, Braehead, Bo'ness, West Lothian EH51 OBZ, Scotland, U.K. Tel: +44 (0) 1506 822240; Fax: +44 (0) 1506 828085 Vice President, International Operations Charles E. Keil ckeil@marinelink.com Tel: (561) 732-0312; Fax: (561) 732-8063 May 2006 www.seadiscovery.com INSIDE Diving • MTR 2006 Directory Mexican Rigs Serviced by SLICE MTR Jobs MARINE TECHNOLOGY R E P O R T E R Communications Going Wireless Offshore Bourbon Invests Billions in New Boats ROV Digging Deep with Perry Slingsby Navy UUV Tests a Success on the Cover The Nootka acoustically linked deepwater observatory is like a wireless computer network: Instruments and users may come and go from the system, sending and receiving data without upsetting the other users and without the fuss of attaching cables. (See story on page 22) Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution also in this Edition 4 Editorial 4 Editorial Index 6 WHOI Unveils HROV 14 Mars Offshore Production to Resume in GOM 16 Mexican Rigs to be Serviced by SLICE 40 Diving 43 MTR 2006 Directory 49 People & Company News 55 Products 61 MTR Marketplace: JOBS 64 Advertiser’s Index the Authors Mike Carlowicz is a science writer for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has written hundreds of articles about earth, space, and ocean sciences, and his latest book is entitled The Sun, published by HN Abrams. (Story on page 22) MTR#4 (1-16).qxd 5/8/2006 2:33 PM Page 7
