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HERmetiC Portable cargo control equipment £ ULLAGE LEVEL i OIL LEVELS PRESELECTED FOR TEMPERATURE READINGS I INTERFACE LEVEL • Oil/Water interface detection • Cargo Temperature detection • Tank ullage gauging • Dry tank dipping • Inert gas sampling • Inert gas pressure detection • Multi level cargo sampling HERMETIC UTRL A handy por- table battery powered intrin- sicallysafe Ullage. Tempera- ture and oil/water interface detector. Thethree functions combined into a single unit. The UTI can be used with either the 1" or 4" Hermetic deck valves by a quick dis- connect coupling at lower end. Buzzer built into reel face for following functions: —Probe in gas/air silent — Probe in oil products continuous tone — Probe in water intermittent tone Push button for temperature indication in degrees Celsius and tenths of adegree(range- 9,9°C to 99,0°C) on digital instrument. Extension pipe is available for raising instru- ment to zerio ullage level. Supplied with custom made carrying case. tanksystem a.s AMERICAN UNITED • MARINE DON T SETTLE FOR LESS THAN THE BEST' CORP 5 Broadway - Rte 1 Saugus. Mass 01906 Tel (617) 231-0622 TWX 710-346-0237 AMERICAN UNITED MARINE Corp. 5 Broadway - Rte 1 Saugus Mass 01906 • Please send literature on HERMetic Tanksystem • Please contact by phone Name .Title Company Address City Telephone -State Zip MR • Circle 242 on Reader Service Card ON THE COVER Cover photo: Camera Craft. Seattle, Washington Nichols Brothers Delivers Chief Seattle PAGE 10 Computerized Ship Management Systems Review PAGE 14 Reducing Fuel Costs PAGE 30 Call For Papers Issued By SNAME New England For Computer Symposium The New England Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Ma- rine Engineers has issued a call for papers for "Marine Computers '86—A Symposium on Computer Applications in the Marine Indus- try," to be held April 16-17, 1986, in Boston, Mass. The goal of the sym- posium is to provide a forum for the presentation of current and future applications of computer hardware and software in the marine indus- try. Authors are invited to submit ab- stracts and tentative outlines of their potential contributions. Dead- lines are as follows: Abstract and Tentative Outline (6 copies), April 1, 1985; Tentative Acceptance No- tice, May 15, 1985; Manuscript (5 copies), August 1, 1985; and Final Acceptance Notice, December 1, 1985. The following areas of the marine industry and computer technology are of interest; related topics will also be considered. Design and Engineering; Offshore Structures; Advanced Marine Vehi- cles; Planning, Fabrication & Con- struction; Cargo Handling, Route Planning, Monitoring; Computer Aided Design/Engineering/Manu- facturing; Information Systems and Data Base Management; Robotics, Vision Systems; Numerical Control; and Expert Systems, Artificial In- telligence. 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