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Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. PO Box 1206 Kailua, HI 96734 Tel: 808-259-8871 Fax: 808-259-8238 Email: Makai@makai.com http://www.makai.com CEO/President: Dr. Jose Andres Vice President: Dr. Joseph Van Ryzin Marketing Director: Reb Bellinger Engineering Director: Dale Jensen Facilities: Ocean-side office space and pier Square Footage: 25,000 Testing Capabilities: dockside laboratory Number of Employees: 18 Annual Sales (US$): $3.4 M Founded in 1973, Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. is a leading expert in the design and deployment of large deep ocean pipelines and is the maker of the Makai Submarine Planning and Installation Software Suite. Much of Makai's ocean design work is focused on methods to produce clean, renewable and sustainable energy, such as sea water air condi- tioning (SWAC) and ocean thermal energy con- version (OTEC). Makai's software team continues to improve and expand upon their flagship product MakaiPlan, which has become the telecommuni- cations industry standard in planning submarine cables. New advances have been made in accurately modeling the shapes of towed arrays from sub- marines and the deploy- ment of autonomous seafloor surveillance sys- tems. A new division has been recently launched to further the company's successful research and development of 3D/4D visualization. Technology Profile: Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. has technology in two fields: large, deep-ocean pipeline design and submarine cable planning and installation. Makai designed the world's deepest large diameter seawa- ter intake pipeline and the deep water intake for the first "deep water cool- ing" project of its kind in the United States. As fossil fuel costs continue to rise, Makai has been receiving numer- ous contracts from around the world to design pipelines for seawater air conditioning which can result in a 90% reduction in energy consump- tion, as compared to conventional AC systems. Makai's pipeline team has also received an ONR contract to define the economic feasibility of building floating OTEC plants to produce hydrogen (or alternate) fuel in the near future (Lockheed Martin is a subcontractor). Makai's software division continues to improve upon and expand its flagship submarine cable planning software, MakaiPlan. In addition, Makai has extended the 3D finite element model used in its submarine cable installation software package, MakaiLay, to include the real-time at-sea modeling and control of towed arrays. This new technology has applications in the military (submarines and surface ves- sels tow arrays for surveillance and tracking operations) and in the ocean survey industry (surveyors need to monitor and control the location of their underwater tow fish). Finally, Makai is launching a new 3D/4D visualization R&D team to expand upon new technology which would allow for four-dimensional data (e.g., medical imaging, atmospheric modeling, groundwater contamination, etc.) to be modeled and visu- alized on single PCs 30 MTR July 2007 MTR100MTR100MTR100MTR100MTR100MTR100 Jose Andres Makai Cable Software Cable Control MTR#6 (17-32).qxd 7/13/2007 10:00 AM Page 30
