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JULY • AUGUST 2010 VOLUME XXII, NUMBER IV

The official publication of the Association of Diving Contractors International

FEATURES 14 In a League of Their Own Three commercial divers stand out in Women Divers Hall of Fame 18 Small Steps Forward Slowly, women are building a presence at diving companies 26 ‘We’re Looking for a Few Good Women’ Diving schools still struggle to attract women candidates 30 Doctor’s Orders: Dive In Experts say women divers face minimal additional health risks 36 Renewable Futures The emerging offshore wind market and what it means for diving contractors 44 MDSU-1 Sailors Reflect on Humanitarian Mission in Haiti 46 Sidescan Survey in Record Time With Focus-2 Vehicle

DEPARTMENTS 8 Board of Directors 11 President’s Message Bill Crowley

12 Executive Director’s Message Phil Newsum

50 New Gear 56 Advertisers Index 57 ADCI Member Company Listings

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS & OFFICERS

President Bill Crowley

1st Vice President Mike Brown

2nd Vice President Craig Fortenbery

Cal Dive International General Member, BOD

EPIC Divers and Marine General Member, BOD Gulf Coast Chapter Chairman

Mainstream Commercial Divers General Member, BOD

Robbie Mistretta Treasurer

Tim Beaver

Claudio Castro STS Chilean Chapter Chairman

Global Divers & Salvage General Member, BOD Executive Committee

Divers Supply Inc. Associate Member, BOD Executive Committee

ADCI Executive Director Phil Newsum Executive Committee International Representative

Executive Committee

Jay Crofton

Mike Willis

David Reser

Jack Vilas

Connie Morgan

Crofton Diving Corp. General Member, BOD

Global Industries Ltd. General Member, BOD

Infrastructure Engineers, Inc. General Member, BOD

Jack Vilas and Associates Associate Member, BOD

Kirby Morgan Dive Systems International Associate Member, BOD

Gary Maines

Bruce Trader

Bryan Nicholls

William Castle

Douglas Truxillo, Esq.

Broco, Inc. Associate Member, BOD

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Neptune Underwater Services (USA), LLC General Member, BOD

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Luis Giampietri Ramos

Rich Riley

Randy Davis

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A MESSAGE FROM THE ADCI PRESIDENT ■ BILL CROWLEY

Women in Diving A CURIOSITY WHEN I FIRST started in diving, an interesting topic for discussion while on breaks, not as rare as the first decade of the 21st century comes to an end, as I am writing this the company I work for Cal Dive International has a woman in saturation. Also, throughout the offshore fleet, we have female Tenders, Life Support Technicians, a Vessel Captain and a Saturation Technician. I am sure this is the same or similar in other diving companies. I am a proponent of the idea for many reasons, but let me state a personal obvious truth: it is just nice having women on the job. The majority of the women I have met in the commercial diving field were ex-military or post diving school entry level diver/tenders who had been the field for about a year or two. They impressed me with the basic knowledge and attention to details like the meticulously coiled hoses and the ship shape dive stations. They struggle on a daily basis to not only make the grade, but to excel in the commercial diving world. And, the ones (male and female) that are still working in the industry have the same attributes in common: they were focused, determined and competitive. Regardless of gender, all entry level divers/tenders face a difficult first few years in the work force while they learn the craft and hone the required skills. Experience and how an entry level diver/tender conducts him or herself on the deck or dive site is the preamble to when the company paying you decides to put you in the water or handle your own shift. If, like most in this field, you are living the dream and your heart is in it, a lifetime of diving isn’t such a bad thing. “If you are earning your living doing what you love, you will never really work a day in your life.” (Someone who lived it said that.) If your heart is not really into the life and struggle, the motivation is faulty and the dream goes away. I am thankful the diving profession found me and I found diving as a young man. Stay focused, it is worth it. The blowout disaster in the Gulf and the massive media blitz surrounding the unfortunate “Deep Water Horizon“explosion, fire and resulting ‘spill’ have been an eye opener for the industry as well as the general public. We will get through this and the industry will be better for it. The ADCI has been busy sending Safety Notices to help inform and share operational safety advice and information surrounding the blowout and the resulting leaking oil and gas. We are committed to inform, educate and share knowledge throughout the duration of this event. Take the high road, be safe and always do the right thing.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ■ PHIL NEWSUM

THIS ISSUE OF UNDERWATER MAGAZINE focuses on Women in the Commercial Diving Industry. It is my hope that every sector of the underwater industry fosters and embraces the importance of diversity in the workplace. Much has transpired in the offshore sector of our industry, especially in the Gulf of Mexico. With the disaster of the Deepwater Horizon Spill come new challenges for both contractors and operators. Like Katrina and Rita, our industry will discover new ways to address obstacles that have not been experienced to date. The Deepwater Horizon Spill has brought new meaning to the term “Lessons Learned.” The one most glaring issue that will need to be examined when we look back and evaluate the response to the spill is the lack of centralized communication available for both contractors and operators. I expressed my concern to the United States Coast Guard on this point, and they understood the disconnect between those that possess the necessary real time information and those that require it, before they deploy for operations. In all fairness to the Coast Guard, like everyone else, they, too, have not experienced a situation such as this. “Lessons Learned” extends to all parties who make their living on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, USCG included. For this Association, it means finding new ways to assist its members in getting real time information and publicizing those recommended guidelines that will allow them to still conduct operations in a safe and efficient manner. There was no more frustrating of an experience by this office than the inability to provide contractors with the information that they needed to safely deploy for operations. Within days after the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and the subsequent spill that ensued, contractors were in a virtual state of suspended operations. Jobs set to go out were literally put on hold because of the unknowns associated with the spill. What specific areas were affected? What areas are either restricted or recommended for vessel travel? Is it safe to dive in an assigned area for work? When combined with hydrocarbons and seawater, what hazards do the dispersants being deployed have on personnel conducting underwater operations? These were just a few of the questions that were posed by members, which this office had no immediate response to. It’s situations like this that require all parties to view things through a clear lens. All of the contractors that I have had direct contact with reinforced such things as “Stop Work” authority with their personnel and took the necessary time and effort to examine the safest ways to approach operations. Greater attention was given to: • Evaluation of site plans for dealing with a contaminated diver • Evaluation of whether five minute surface intervals can be met, if diving Sur ‘D’ O2 • Possibly limiting dives to “No Decompression” • The need for hydrocarbon monitors in saturation diving bells • The need for a dedicated decontamination/wash down station on vessels for surfacing divers As the effects of the spill impact us in the months and years to come, there will also be new challenges and issues facing contractors. One major item will be mitigating the hazards of divers working on bottom, after all of the oil has settled on and below the mud line. One very important dynamic that is very reassuring is the understanding on the part of contractors to openly share incidents and best practices. For our industry to progress in a positive direction, we need to continue to reinforce the culture of safety first and profit second. Be safe.

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In a League of Their Own Three commercial divers stand out in Women Divers Hall of Fame THERE’S A GROUP OF WOMEN divers who share an achievement that’s so rare that it could be compared to the most exclusive clubs in the world of sports, such as baseball players with 600 career home runs and running backs with 2,000 rushing yards in a season. Norma Hanson, Dolores E. Fisher and Tamara Brown are the only three commercial divers to be inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame, an organization based in New York City that is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010. The Hall of Fame has published a booklet honoring its 176 inductees from all over the world, women who have made a mark in virtually every category of diving. The Hall of Fame recognizes women in many areas, such as underwater filmmaking and photography, wreck diving, cave diving, scuba-industry leaders, military divers, research scientists, instructors, marine scientists and conservationists and underwater archaeologists. Even underwater hockey players get their due. But in the world of commercial diving, Hanson, Fisher and Brown stand alone.

Norma Hanson Hanson began hard-hat diving in 1949, according to the Women Divers Hall of Fame, working in both the commercial abalone and underwater construction industries. By 1957, she’d made more than 4,000 dives in heavy gear and was the second woman to join Hard hat diver Norma Hanson. California’s Piledrivers, Bridge and Dockworkers Union Local 2375. Hanson set the women’s world depth record for diving on air at 220 feet in the 1950s and performed for the glass-bottom-boat shows at Santa Catalina Island in California. One of the most intriguing stories Hanson often told involved a surprise visitor at one of those shows. As the divers got into position, Hanson’s husband, Alfred, saw a great white shark and warned the line tender on the boat. He in turn relayed the message down the line to Norma. 14

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“I look down and here’s this great white shark coming up with its mouth wide open, row after row after row of teeth,” she was quoted as saying by the Women Divers Hall of Fame. “I was just in position where I could kick it in the nose. I gave it a hard kick, and it veered off. Of course, my line tender pulled me right up. I was so frightened, I couldn’t stand up. I had super-deluxe rubber legs.” About half an hour later, Norma was back in the water for another show. She realized later that she should have suspected trouble when she noticed the absence of the hundreds of little fish that showed up daily to be fed. “The funny part was, some of the people on the glass-bottom boat saw the whole thing, and they thought we had a trained shark,” she said. “We heard they wanted to take the trip again so they could take pictures of it.” In her 50 years as a commercial diver, she served as foreman and tender on pile-wrapping and harbor-maintenance jobs, did harbor inspections and traveled the world training commercial divers, the Hall of Fame said. She and her husband wrote “More Than Nine Lives,” chronicling their lives as commercial divers on the West Coast. They also worked as divers and consultants for Walt Disney Studios, where they worked on movies such as “20000 Leagues Under the Sea.” They retired from the industry as chief divers for the Port of Los Angeles in 1988. Leslie Leaney, the founder of the Santa Maria, Calif.-based Historical Diving Society USA, counted the late Norma Hanson among his personal friends. “Norma Hanson was a bona-fide, card-carrying union member with many more hours underwater than a lot of the men,” Leaney said. “She operated post World War II out of Southern California and garnered lots of press because of her unusual status and employment. I knew her in her later years. She was not the macho, hardnosed woman I expected. She had an elegance and a softness that was disarming. She was like a favorite aunt, but wearing clothes with diving-helmet motifs on them.” (Women’s Equipment Test Team)

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Flier for “Aloha Days,” the event where Mrs. Fisher would break the underwater endurance record.

Dolores E. Fisher In 1953, Fisher fell in love with both her husband, Mel, and the ocean, according to the Women Divers Hall of Fame. The native of Montana was a stranger to the ocean, but on the couple’s honeymoon, they went diving to explore shipwrecks off the Florida Keys. They planned to open a store devoted exclusively to diving, and to raise money for the endeavor, they dove commercially for lobster in the frigid waters off California. The grueling but lucrative work paid off when they opened Mel’s Aqua Shop in Redondo Beach, Calif., the world’s first “dive shop,” according to the Women Divers Hall of Fame. The Fishers, who are now deceased, trained more than 65,000 students in scuba diving. But more impressively, Dolores, nicknamed “Deo,” set a world underwater endurance record at 55 hours and 37 minutes that still stands today, the Hall of Fame said. In 1963, the Fishers and their four children moved to Florida to begin treasure hunting off the Treasure Coast, and they later moved to the Florida Keys. On July 20, 1985, they made the find that would earn them fame and define their careers, locating the sunken Nuestra Senora de Atocha ship, with more than 40 tons of silver and gold worth an estimated $450 million. 16 16

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Tamara Brown Brown started commercial diving at the age of 18 under the direction of her father, her, William Brown, who founded the Divers vers Academy International school in Erial, N.J., in 1977. According to the Women Divers Hall of Fame, William Brown was fond of saying, ying, “Just do it. Time is money, and we have no o time to waste.” Brown became the director of Divers Academy cademy International in 1990, and in 2006, she purchased rchased 100 percent of the company, one of the largest commercial diving schools in the United d States, from her family. She moved the school into to a new, state-of-the art training facility in a 60-foot-deep, oot-deep, 40-acre dive quarry with a large administration nistration building. She serves as president of the company, which is based near Atlantic City. “Commercial diving has been a rewarding arding and challenging career as a woman in a very demanding industry,” Brown told the Women Divers Hall of Fame. “Respect was earned, not given, but well ll worth the challenge. Every commercial dive is exciting, ng, and being able to work with some high-tech equipment ment to inspect p bridges, install fiber-optic cables and working king on oil rigs is really awesome. Some of the biggest challenges as a woman have been gaining acceptance and respect from a tough crew of men. But if you keep doing the right thing, it all comes together, and that is by far easier sier compared to diving in the Delaware River.” Brown also is president of the Association on of Commercial Diving Educators and chairwoman of the committee that wrote and published the American National Standards Institute/ACDE commercial diving certification standards. “She was one of the earliest commercial divers, and now she runs a commercial dive school, so it’s kind of amazing that she’s now instrumental in training commercial divers,” said Bobbie Scholley, a retired Navy diver and the president of the Women Divers Hall of Fame. “She’s not only showing young women that it’s possible to be out there doing it, but that you can also make a career out of it and become somebody who makes a difference in the commercial dive world. She’s highly respected in the commercial world, which is a tough world to be in, and is really setting a standard.” Scholley and her group have set a goal of ensuring that Hanson, Fisher and Brown eventually have plenty of company as commercial divers in the Hall of Fame. The organization provides scholarships and training grants to young women in a variety of diving disciplines each year. Thirteen women divers

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received scholarships and grants at the Women Divers Hall of Fame’s annual meeting in March. “We keep seeing an increase in the number of women who are applying for these scholarship and training grants,” Scholley said, “and we’re also seeing a really significant increase in the talent that these young women are bringing into the diving industry. A lot of us have been successful in our careers, and we want to give back and nurture the next generation of women divers so we continue doing all this good stuff in the underwater world. “When you look at our book, our commercial-diving section is still pretty small when it comes to actually working in the commercial world, but then you also look at all the others who kind of support the commercial world, like the divingequipment areas. Some of the women have taken on divingequipment companies and are now running them. That’s pretty impressive as well.” www.adc-int.org ■ www.underwatermagazine.com

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Small Steps Forward Slowly, women are building a presence at diving companies WHEN LIZ VAZQUEZ APPLIES IN-PERSON for a job as a diver, she really needn’t bother writing her name on the application. Though the commercial diving industry is more open to women now than ever before, women divers still share something in common with four-leaf clovers and professional basketball stars under six feet tall: They do exist but are hard to find. So, if there’s a woman diver in Virginia looking for a job, companies know it’s probably Vazquez. A certified commercial diver since 2008, Vazquez has worked for three companies as an inland diver doing bridgework and construction, and she’s spending the summer in Australia for a fourth firm. She said the company received 90 applications for the overseas project, and she was the only woman who applied. Based on her past experiences, that came as no surprise. “When I went to fill out an application at a big company here, they knew who I was before I even got to talking,” Vazquez said. “They’ve heard of me here in Virginia. They call me ‘the girl diver.’” Vazquez said that when she first started working in the industry, she didn’t know how rare women divers were, but her boss at a small company told her she was the only one in Virginia. She thought she might run into another female diver when she went to a bigger company, but that wasn’t the case. “When I’d go to work for other companies, as soon as I set foot on the barge, they’d say, ‘Oh, there’s a girl diver,’ and I’d say, ‘So, what’s the big deal?’ And they’d say, ‘You’re the first one I’ve met.’ At first, I thought they were pulling my leg, but they weren’t.” Many diving companies have a handful of women divers and crewmembers, but the industry largely remains a man’s world. Timothy Beaver, the CEO of Global Diving and Salvage Inc., said his company has about 100 active divers, including three women. He said that although the industry historically has been slow to embrace women, it is starting to come around.

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you this: Some very good divers that I have met in my career have been women. I’ve known some that were very good at specialty work, like underwater welding, and I’ve known some very good construction divers who were women and have been able to withstand the environment of being around all males on a boat and the physical demands associated with the actual in-water work that divers do. “It takes a rare individual that can do it, but it’s definitely becoming more and more accessible to women. Not long ago, it was unheard of to have women in saturation, and now there are females who do that kind of diving.” Tiffany Cartier is a certified commercial diver but usually works offshore as a tender and life-support technician for Global Diving and Salvage Inc. She said she’s the only woman on her crew and usually has her own room and restroom while at sea. As a former manager at an auto-body shop, Cartier said she was already familiar with working in a male-dominated industry when she first became a diver. And although some women might feel uncomfortable living at sea with men for a month or more, it doesn’t bother her one bit.

RT 95 Bridge job in Richmond Virginia. Pile jacketing job reinforcement of piles on bridge. Image courtesy L. Vazquez.

“I think the industry is more open,” Beaver said. “There may have been some open hostility in the past, but I think we live in different times. Now, it’s just a matter of whether the person can perform. The diving business is very performance-oriented, and it’s pretty rigorous physically and mentally, so not all people, male or female, are cut out for that type of work. And clearly, for whatever reason, fewer women choose to go into the profession to start with.” Mike Willis, Global Industries Ltd.’s director of diving for the Gulf of Mexico region, said his company has one woman working offshore as a diving tender and another as a diver, though the company has had as many as six women divers at a time. He said the physical demands of diving sometimes lead women divers to seek roles as support staff, such as life-support technicians. “They’ve found other venues that still keep them in the industry but not necessarily in the water,” Willis said. “But I can tell 20

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“It’s great,” she said. “The guys treat me really well. Some of the guys aren’t used to it, but the crew that I work with, they’re all used to me because I’ve been working with them for three years, so they all know me. It’s not really an issue. “They’re a little bit rougher than average guys. You can’t get insulted by a comment or by what they’re talking about. That’s the only thing that I would say would be a concern for a woman – if your feelings get hurt really easily or sexual innuendos make you upset. But for the most part, they’re just a group of hardworking guys. They’re all absolutely friendly to me. We’re all family. It’s like having a bunch of brothers.” Bill Matthies, who runs Minnesota Commercial Diver Training Center, said he tried to discourage one of his star pupils, Amanda White, from working offshore with a male crew. White later told him that the experience was great and that her co-workers treated her like a sister. She said the crew made her prove herself, and she was happy to oblige. “She said that they might give her a tough job to do, like hauling a big, heavy umbilical up a ladder to a second deck,” he said. “She knew she wasn’t physically strong enough to do it, but she tried. She wouldn’t give up, and finally they came and helped her. And she said they just wanted to see how hard she would work at any job they gave her and if she’d say, ‘Oh, I can’t do that.’ She was strong, and she was strong-willed.” 22

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Sometimes, however, women have a reason to be wary of such situations. Vazquez said she’s had a positive experience at two of the three companies she’s work for, but at one, the mistreatment got so bad that she ultimately chose to leave, but not before gaining valuable experience that made her marketable to other companies. “It was pretty much right-out discrimination because I was a female – not letting me do the work,” Vazquez said. “There were male divers who were put in the water and taken out because they couldn’t finish. I could do it, but I didn’t get the opportunity.” Vazquez said she eventually got a chance to dive when the weather was cold and male divers didn’t want to get in, but her solid performance only made things worse for her. “They were sabotaging me so I couldn’t finish the work – misplacing tools, not giving me the right equipment – things that were kind of dangerous. I just couldn’t believe it.” Beaver said many women are finding it easier to work with all-male crews because newer, large vessels often have separate restrooms and living areas for women and men. But when working on smaller vessels and on projects in remote areas, the facilities sometimes are less than ideal. “I could see why some women and men might not want to be thrown into that kind of situation, where privacy is limited,” he said. “But generally, people find ways to accommodate. In today’s world, it’s not difficult to combine crews and have everybody be happy.” Cartier and Vazquez said they’re able to perform the same tasks as men but sometimes have to find creative ways of doing them. “Women have less upper-body strength than men, so we usually have to think about things a little bit more before we do them,” Cartier said. “We have to work a little bit smarter instead of harder.” Cartier said there isn’t much the diving industry can do to attract more women. “It takes a special kind of female,” she said. “I don’t think there’s anything that can be done, really, to make it more female-orientated. You have to be a special kind of girl.”

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Willis said the best thing the industry can do for women is to simply give them a chance when they apply for work. “If they come through our door looking for work, there’s definitely not any kind of discrimination against that. There’s nothing really special that we’re doing outside of supporting them, endorsing them and certainly celebrating their achievements, as we do with every other diver.” When asked why so few women enter the industry, Beaver joked, “Maybe women are just smarter than men and aren’t willing to go work that hard, work underwater, be cold, muddy and dirty. It takes a special kind of guy to enjoy the diving industry, and it certainly takes an extraordinary woman to enjoy the sort of work style that’s involved in diving. But frankly, I don’t think it boils down to a sexism issue. It’s just the kind of work that it is. “Any male-dominated business is going to have some roadblocks put out there, either consciously or unconsciously, by that dominant male culture, but it’s the employer’s job to do their best to keep those from becoming a factor and to work toward a more diverse workplace. Any company that’s successful has got to be progressive on that front and work toward that diversity, because in the end, it does make for a stronger company.”

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‘We’re Looking for a Few Good Women’ Diving schools still struggle to attract women candidates WE LIKELY NEVER WILL KNOW which came first, the chicken or the egg, but this much is certain: If more women are going to become certified commercial divers, there first have to be more women taking the plunge at diving schools. Instructors at diving schools across North America said they would like to see more women candidates enroll, but at present, few women seem interested. Dav id H. Weisman, t he executive director of t he Jacksonville, Fla.-based Commercial Diving Academy, said his school graduates about 260 students per year. In 2008, six women graduated from his school, but that number dipped to just two in 2009. So far this year, one woman has graduated from the 20-week program, and one more began attending the

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school in the spring. The percentage of women candidates at his school is so low that Weisman termed it “infinitesimal.” “At our school, it’s definitely not going up,” he said. “At best, it’s 1 to 2 percent. We do everything we can to recruit equally. In fact, we make sure on our Web site that we show women who have been through the program so that we make it clear that it’s available to anyone who’s interested, but we still don’t get that many.” Some school executives, such as Bill Matthies, who runs the Minnesota Commercial Diver Training Center in Brainerd, are seeing the number of women candidates shrink. His eightweek program draws 38-48 students per year, and over the last few years, not a single woman candidate has enrolled.

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“I think it’s fading,” Matthies said. “I do have one scheduled to come in this year, but I haven’t had a women in our class for the last two years. We started in 1993, and we didn’t have any in the beginning, but around 2000 to 2005, I would say we had three in a short period of time, and then there was a long gap.” Diving schools across the country report similar numbers. Sergio Smith, the CEO of the North Charleston, S.C.-based International Diving Institute, said the school typically graduates 36 divers per year, but during the school’s five years in business, only five of its students have been women. Similarly, John Paul Johnston of the Seattle-based Divers Institute of Technology, said he had five women Image courtesy Minnesota School of Diving.

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candidates candidates on campus during the spring, but that represented just 5 percent of the student body. The trend even extends north of the border. Steven White, the course coordinator and dive supervisor at Holland College Commercial Diving in Georgetown, Prince Edward Island, said his school has graduated about a hundred students over the last seven years, and only three were women. Diving-school executives across the country emphasized that the success rates for women candidates at their schools are no different from those of men, and women are expected to perform every assignment that the men are, bar none. In a traditionally male-dominated industry where women often feel pressure to prove themselves, determined female candidates wouldn’t want it any other way. “We have not had a single woman fail to complete the program,” Weisman said. “They’ve all been a success. They are required to do every single thing the men do. Our school requires physical training every day, and we allow them to do female-style push-ups instead of male-style pushups, and generally, the girls try to do the male-style push-ups.” “They do everything,” Smith said. “If they want to attend the program, they have to attend the program the way it’s set up. We can’t deviate or change anything. The only difference is we have a ladies’ locker room and a men’s locker room – that’s it.” Training at the Commercial Diving Academy.

Matthies said most women candidates expect to be treated the same as men and quickly earn the respect of their fellow students. He said one of his best female candidates was a 95-pound diver who quickly showed that she didn’t need a helping hand. “She was a little, tiny gal from Washington state, and no way had you better offer to help her,” Matthies said. “She was going to do it, and it didn’t matter what. She did it all, and I was so impressed with her because she had the determination. She was going to do everything the men did, and she did, and they’re all 200 pounds or better.” Diving-school executives said they would like to have more women candidates attend their schools, though none has put together an advertising campaign targeting women – or any one group, for that matter. Since being a certified commercial diver is a demanding job, the most serious candidates, regardless of gender, take the initiative to find a school, rather than the school finding the students. “We don’t do any outreach marketing at all,” Weisman said. “If you want to come to our school, you have to know you want to be a diver and find us. Then, once you find our Web site, we try to make it clear that women have gone through the program, are in the program and are welcome in the program.” One of the reasons diving schools would like to attract more women candidates is because, whether it’s grade-school kickball or saturation diving, it seems that no guy likes being shown up by a girl. Weisman said that when there is a woman candidate in a class, especially one who is determined and in tip-top physical condition, the male students typically feel pressured to work just a bit harder. “We’ve had some women go through the program that are just superior, spectacular divers,” he said. “They’re fit, and they’re qualified, and when you get a woman like that going through the program, it’s a really good thing for the school. It brings everybody’s level up, so we more than welcome women into the program, and I would like to get more in.” “The women tend to pay a little bit more attention to detail, and it’s an experience when you have young ladies and men in

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Deidre “Deedee” Ryals, Columbus, MS. Now an LST with Epic, she graduated from the Commercial Diving Academy in 2006. Image courtesy Commercial Diving Academy.

Avrey Wilson, Nassau, Bahamas. Now a medic with Epic, she graduated from the Commercial Diving Academy in 2008.

Tammy Fertig, Woodruff, SC, graduated from the Commercial Diving Academy in 2006. Image courtesy Commercial Diving Academy.

a class,” Smith said. “It’s not really competition, but you can see that the level of knowledge that’s retained by everybody, for some reason, is a lot better.” Johnston said one of the reasons some diving schools don’t do more to attract women is because it can be harder to place them in jobs after they graduate, partly because some diving companies don’t have new vessels that include separate bathrooms and living areas for men and women. “A dive school is rated on its ability to place its students, and it’s just a little bit harder to place women,” Johnston said. “The offshore companies, their ships have to be set up to have women crew members because they’re going offshore for several weeks at a time. You have to find a company that’s set up to accomodate women. However, that said, so far, our women graduates have been very successful.”

“The opportunities for women are probably more limited in terms of companies wanting to hire them,” Weisman said. “You have to be able to accommodate a woman offshore, and yes, companies have to legally, but how willing are they to do that? These boats weren’t set up for different genders, and there are a lot of issues. Some companies do all-female dive teams, and that makes a lot of sense.” Weisman said one of the main reasons so few women attend diving school is the same reason many men aren’t cut out for it: The job requires physical exertion, and it takes a special kind of person, male or female, to work that hard. “It’s such a difficult physical job that it really doesn’t lend itself to the typical female pursuing it, so there’s less interest,” he said. “It’s very difficult work. You need upper-body strength, and that’s one of the weaknesses that we see when we get women in the program. Some of them are more than capable, but some of them don’t have the upper-body strength that’s really required to get out of the water with a hundred pounds of gear on in a moving sea state and get onto the boat.” Though physical strength is important, White said smart divers, male or female, can use their brains to make up for a lack of size. “I haven’t found that you really need to be that strong,” he said. “I work with some really small guys, and they can use the water to their advantage. And in our program, we do a threemile run every morning, and the girls are right there running at the front of the pack and, in fact, showing up a lot of the guys.” Despite that strong showing, White said women – and men – shouldn’t think it’s easy to live on a boat in tight quarters with a group of guys for weeks on end. “It takes a tough guy to make it, let alone a woman,” he said. “You really have to have a thick skin in the industry to keep at it, so I think for women, it’s even tougher. I wouldn’t really recommend it, but maybe if you tell somebody that, then they want it even more.” www.adc-int.org ■ www.underwatermagazine.com

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Doctor’s Orders: Dive In Experts say women divers face minimal additional health risks SOME MYTHS DIE HARD, BUT when it comes to the one about women divers being more prone to decompression sickness than men, leading medical experts are ready to put the final nail in the coffin. There is no significant difference in the rates of decompression sickness among men and women, according to doctors who specialize in diving medicine. And further, unless a woman diver is pregnant or trying to become pregnant, her job poses almost no additional health risks, medical experts say. “The primary concerns for female commercial divers in a predominately male environment are more social in nature than medical,” said Dr. Nick Bird, the chief medical officer for Divers Alert Network, a not-for-profit organization that provides emergency medical advice and assistance to divers. “As far as we know, there are no significant gender differences in the way our bodies respond to pressure. There is no data to support an assertion that there is a genderspecific propensity for ill health.” The decades-old myth about women getting decompression sickness more often than men stemmed from the fact that women typically have a higher body-fat percentage than men, and fat tissue takes longer to offgas after a dive. But by that logic, male divers who have a little extra body fat also should be more prone to decompression sickness, and that isn’t the case. “Over the years there has been a lot of interest in whether females are at greater or lesser risk of diving-related decompression illness than males,” said Dr. Richard Moon, the medical director at Duke University’s Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology. “The data do not support a major difference between the genders. Women are not at greater risk of decompression sickness, arterial gas embolism, oxygen toxicity or diving-related death.” The good news for women divers is that there is no medical evidence that says they shouldn’t be in the water. But the bad news is that on the issues of diving while pregnant or while taking oral contraceptives, there’s very little medical evidence, period. ABOVE: RT 95 Bridge Richmond, Virginia. Pile jacketing job reinforcement of piles on bridge. Image courtesy L. Vazquez.

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medicine Dr. Maida Beth Taylor, a DAN consultant and a clinical professor at the University of California- San Francisco, said that diving’s effect on a fetus is not known, so the general rule is that women who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant should not dive. Doctors say a fetus shouldn’t be inadvertently exposed to high partial pressures of oxygen or altered mixed-breathing gases. Since organogenesis, the formation of organs and limbs, begins during the

first few weeks of pregnancy, in theory, a woman diving even in the early stages of pregnancy – when she’s not even aware that she’s pregnant – could be putting her unborn child at risk. But since there are very few studies on the subject, doctors can’t be certain that it’s either safe or unsafe. “There’s no evidence that diving causes a higher rate of birth defects in women who dived in early pregnancy, but the number of cases that are available

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Taylor said medical experts also have speculated that since women who take birth-control pills are somewhat more prone to blood clots, they would have a higher rate of decompression sickness, but there hasn’t been enough data collected to make a determination. “There’s a theoretical concern about hormonal contraception and the fact that it causes a relative hypercoagulative state – it makes women relatively more prone to blood clots, and the implication there is, will that increase the likelihood of a decompression event? And in the event that a bubble occurs, will there be a higher probability of propagation of a vascular cascade and clotting and an obstruction of blood flow, and will it be harder to treat?” But Taylor said this is a minimal risk, especially since many women taking birth-control pills are relatively young and have less of a risk of clotting than older women. Alleman said it’s important that commercial diving companies have their divers – male or female – examined by qualified medical diving experts, who are the only ones capable of determining whether a diver is physically qualified to dive. But onc e qu a l i f ie d by a do ctor, women divers should be allowed to perform all the tasks of their male counterparts. “The issues pertinent to the safety of male divers are of equal importance for females,” Moon said. “In addition, the workplace environment should encompass a culture based on performance so that both male and female divers can feel comfortable doing those jobs for which they are particularly skilled.” “Basically, there’s really no difference in men and women divers other than size and peak power, peak strength,” Taylor said. “Women, because they’re smaller, at the peak of both aerobic and strength training, do not achieve the same output that men do. But trained women vs. untrained men or women of virtually comparable to size to men basically can do anything that a man can do. Given that dictum, they’re far more similar than they are different.”

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Renewable Futures The emerging offshore wind market and what it means for diving contractors BY JOEL SHAPIRO, RENEWABLE ENERGY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

ENERGY HAS FAST BECOME ONE of the most important issues facing our society. Rapid growth in global energy consumption, peak oil and gas supplies, and strong concerns about energy independence and climate change - have all fueled a rapid increase in both the technology innovation and industry adoption of renewable energy. Renewable energy uses energy sources that are continually replenished by nature, such as the sun, wind, water, the Earth’s heat and plants. Renewable energy technologies turn these natural fuels into usable forms of energy, most often as electricity, but also as heat and mechanical power. While renewable energy won’t be the only answer to many of the issues previously mentioned, it will certainly play an integral role in addressing a significant portion of them, and it is widely accepted that clean energy will be one of the largest and most important industries of the 21st century. In terms of size, it’s well on its way already. In 2008 global investment in renewable energy reached $120 billion, a 4X increase from 2004. In 2008 alone, wind energy grew by 29%, grid-tied solar grew by 70%, and largescale utility PV power plants tripled. Perhaps one of the most significant milestones of 2008 was that both the United States and European Union added more power capacity from renewable energy than from gas, coal, oil and nuclear combined.[1] This rapid growth is here to stay. At the beginning of 2009, 64 countries across the world had implemented renewable energy policies, which mandate a percentage of total energy to come from renewable sources by varying dates. With close to 1 billion people in China and India alone that are positioned to join the middle class (and all of the energy usage that goes along with that), it’s clear that renewable energy will fast become the backbone of the global economy, providing a massive amount of job opportunities along the way.

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From initial site surveys, to building and implementing foundations, to laying large amounts of underwater cables, there is no shortage of jobs that will require expertise from the commercial diving industry.

Marine-based Renewable Energy Generation One form of renewable energy that will have a significant impact on the commercial diving industry is the growing utilization of marine-based technologies for utility-scale electricity generation, which include off-shore wind turbines, wave harvesting buoys, and unconventional concepts, such as underwater current turbines that convert energy from water moving with low and high tides. While many of these technologies, such as the underwater current turbines, are in the early stages of development, off-shore wind farms have been in existence for almost 20 years, and have now been deployed in over eight European countries, with projects planned in five additional countries by 2015.[3]

in 2009 alone, it’s clear many countries agree. One of the most compelling of these reasons is the quality of offshore wind. The winds speeds are typically higher, more sustained (European wind farms generated electricity 70-90% of the time), and less turbulent than those found onshore. These conditions provide an ideal location for larger wind turbines, which are capable of generating larger amounts of electricity. In addition, many countries don’t have large amounts of land suitable for land-based wind farms, thus offshore regions with suitable water provide a great alternative. Finally, proximity to large cities is also an advantage. With over 40% of the global population living within 100 kilometers (roughly 62 miles) of coastlines, offshore wind farms also provide shorter transmission lines to load centers.

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The following are a few examples: In the United Kingdom, licenses were recently awarded to a collection of companies to develop wind farms in nine separate seabed zones – kicking off one of the largest infrastructure projects in the world for wind energy. Work on this project has already begun, and recent graduates from the professional diving academy have already started lucrative careers, with basic diver entry wages starting at 250 pounds, or almost $400 a day. [6]

Tommy Henaughen, general manager for the Professional Diving Academy sees a bright future for commercial divers in the off-shore wind industry. “It is now apparent that today’s generation of commercial divers are going to play an increasingly vital role in the installation of the massive new green infrastructure that is going to power the UK and many other nations into the future. Like the platforms and rigs associated with offshore oil and gas recovery, wind turbines are going to require regular inspection, maintenance and repair work. This is undoubtedly going to provide commercial diving work for a great many years to come.” [6] Last year it was announced that CTC Marine Projects, a member of the Woodlands, TX, based Trico Marine Group, was awarded their first contract in the offshore wind farm industry. The project was awarded by E.ON Climate and Renewables UK for the development of the Robin Rigg Wind Farm, a 180MW project consisting of 60, 3MW wind turbines located between the Scottish and English coasts. CTC Marine Projects scope of work will consist of the lay, installation and burial of 17 subsea power cable arrays that link the wind turbine foundations together, followed by post installation inspection and testing. The work will take approximately 90 days and will be performed in shallow water depths of up to nine meters. Ac c ord i ng to C TC M a n a g i ng Director, Darly Lunch, “This contract shows CTC’s ability to apply our extensive subsea experience in the oil and gas industry to the offshore wind farm market and highlights the breadth of services and technology that CTC can offer.” Northern Divers Ltd., an Englandbased company, has been working in association with Q7, the second offshore wind farm in the Dutch sector of the North Sea, and the world’s first to be located at such a distance from the coast (outside of the 12-mile limit). The construction of the project started in mid2006, by installing cables to all wind turbines via the J-Tube arrangement,

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Oﬀ-shore Wind to Grow In North America and Asia Currently, the vast majority of installed offshore wind farms are located in Europe. While European countries and companies have been pioneers in this field, the rapid adoption and implementation they’ve achieved is expected to flow into both North America and Asia in the near future. According to EER, these two regions will contribute nearly 25% of the total new offshore capacity installed worldwide. In fact, a recent report from the U.S. Department of Energy, predicted that as much as 20% of the 300 GW of wind power envisioned for the United States by 2030 will come from off-shore wind farms. Just this past March, Cape Wind announced that it had entered into an agreement to purchase 130 3.6 megawatt wind turbines from Siemens, for the first offshore wind farm in the United States, which will be located off the coast of Massachusetts. At the same time, Siemens, one of the worlds’ largest wind turbine manufacturers, announced plans to open a US offshore wind office in Boston. In June 2009, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar issued five exploratory leases for wind power production on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore from New Jersey and Delaware. The leases authorize data gathering activities, allowing for the construction of meteorological towers on the Outer Continental Shelf from six to 18 miles offshore. [4] China has also been active in the offshore wind industry. This past March, China joined the ranks of countries with installed offshore wind farms, finishing construction of a 102-megawatt project in the Yangtze River delta near Shanghai. This was the beginning of a new trend that will catapult China into a global leadership position for off-shore wind. Over the next three to four years, China plans to install over 500 megawatts of offshore wind. According to Azure International, a Chinese-based energy consultancy, China will invest $100 billion to install a staggering 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2020, an amount that is equal to the amount of www.adc-int.org ■ www.underwatermagazine.com 466213_Moog.indd 1

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governments are looking for a way to stimulate local economies and provide energy for their fast growing population centers. The United States and China aren’t the only countries planning offshore wind development. South Korea and Japan, two land-strapped countries, are also pursuing offshore wind energy. South Korea recently announced plans to develop a 1 GW offshore wind farm, and Japan is

investing heavily in research in this area, with plans to deliver initial wind energy by 2011.

Conclusion Many factors have contributed to the strong growth of renewable energy – and the industry is poised to continue this growth well into the future. Offshore wind energy represents the largest opportunity in the renewable energy industry for commercial divers. Immense success in Europe, coupled with significant advances in technologies and know how, and other unique benefits of offshore wind have paved the way for countries in North America and Asia to quickly follow suit. Just as European wind farms were built on the specialized skills and expertise of commercial divers, so too will be the wind farms that will soon power the coastal regions of countries like the United States and China, creating even greater demand for commercial divers in the future.

Sources: [1] “Renewables Global Status Report.” Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century. www.ren21.net. 4/15/2010. [2] “Republic of India.” U.S. Department of State. www.state.gov. 4/10/2010. [3] “Offshore Wind Energy.”American Wind Energy Association. www.awea.org. 3/1/2009. [4] “DOI Announces Five Exploratory Leases for Offshore Wind Energy.” Renewable Energy World. www.renewableenergyworld. com. 6/25/2009. [5] “Study: Next Decade One of Progress for Global Offshore Wind Industry.” Wind Power Monthly. www.windpowermonthly. com. 1/5/2010. [6] “Professional Diving Academy Welcomes Recent Announcement for Offshore Wind Farm Expansion Plans.” Offshore Wind. www.offshorewind.biz. 2/15/2010. [7] “Inshore / offshore.” Northern Divers. www.northerndivers.co.uk. 4/15/2010. [8] “South Korea Eyes 1 GW Offshore Wind Farm Expansion.” Power-Gen WORLDWIDE. www.powergenworldwide. com. 2/9/2010. [9] “Chinese Wind Power Heads Offshore.” Technology Review. www.technologyreview. com. 4/5/2010.

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PEARL HARBOR (NNS) – Sailors assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1 deployed to Haiti to support Operation Unified Response Jan. 20, providing humanitarian assistance to the earthquake-ravaged nation. After spending a week in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, MDSU-1 personnel were sent to Haiti for two weeks to be part of a command and control element. “We arrived in Haiti by way of the Dutch ship HNLMS Pelikaan, about eight days after the earthquake happened and there was a lot of smoke and physical damage that we could see from afar,” said Chief Warrant Officer Jeffrey Landry. “It was completely devastating, and the nation was in terrible condition.” “There were a lot of cracks in the ground and it looked and felt like the Earth had literally been ripped open,” added Navy Diver 2nd Class Curtis Wiley. “I’ve been to third-world countries before but I’ve never seen a place in that bad of a condition. You could definitely tell they needed aid and help.” While in Port-Au-Prince, MDSU-1 personnel worked with many other commands to aid the citizens. “As a part of the Command and Control element for salvage operations, we worked with several commands including Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 7, MDSU-2, the Air Force and the Haitian Army along with others,” said Landry. “MDSU-1 did a great job of coordinating not only salvage related work, but also with being able to get food, water, fuel and basic life support for people.” Wiley reflected on the experience of helping the citizens of Haiti in their time of need. “Anytime you get to help other people it’s very rewarding and it was even more so this time being that their country had just gone through a major catastrophe,” Wiley said. “My biggest reward was to be involved in a mission that not only the United States military was a part of, but also all of the other countries’ militaries that were involved with the relief effort.” Other MDSU-1 personnel that were deployed to Haiti were Cmdr. John Moulton, commanding officer of MDSU-1; Command Master Chief Jose Lara; Master Chief Navy Diver Cliff Morin; and Senior Chief Navy Diver John Hopkins. Navy Seabees are still on the ground in Haiti, improving roads and other infrastructure in advance of the rainy season, expected to start in mid-April. The engineering efforts, like the work of other Sailors who have served in Haiti, are expected to continue to save many lives. Sailors stationed from throughout the world have served in Haiti as medical first responders, relief coordinators, engineers and even divers. MDSU-1’s mission is to provide swift and mobile ship salvage, towing, battle damage repair, deep ocean recovery, harbor clearance and underwater ship repair capabilities in support of the 3rd and 7th fleets. 44

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Navy Diver 2nd Class Joshua Keller, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, guides a winch cable during a salvage operation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chris Lussier/ Released)

Members of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2 inspect a submerged container box. MDSU-2 is conducting salvage and repair operations in the main seaport of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as part of Operation Unified Response, providing humanitarian and disaster relief to Haiti in the aftermath of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chris Lussier/ Released)

Haitian citizens use heavy equipment to clear debris near the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince. Several U.S. and international military and non-governmental agencies are conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations as part of Operation Unified Response after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake caused severe damage in and around Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 12. (U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Spike Call/Released)

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Uses Existing System Cables The large bandwidths of fibre optic cables and multiplexers are excellent at transferring vast amounts of online data from underwater equipment to topside. They can, however, be out of the economic reach of some projects or require extensive changes to equipment and handling systems. MacArtney has developed a new type of multiplexer. This new electrical multiplexer, the NEXUS MK E, transfers online data on existing coax type, side scan sonar and CTD cables as well as twisted pair and 3 conductor umbilicals.

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DIVING SUITS Trelleborg - Viking Inc. .........................................35

PROPELLER POLISHERS Armada Systems, Inc ...........................................46

CABLE SYSTEMS & TESTING SERVICES PMI Industries, Inc. ..............................................55

DRY WELD SYSTEMS Neptune Underwater Services (USA), LLC ............43

PROPULSION SYSTEMS Tecnadyne ............................................................38

CABLES, HOSES & UMBILICALS Umbilicals International, Inc. ..................................9

FLANGE GASKET HOLDERS Flange Skillets International, Inc. .........................49

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES SeaBotix, Inc. .......................................................33

COMMERCIAL DIVING CONTRACTORS TETRA Technologies, Inc. .......................................6

FUELS & LUBRICANTS Aerospace Lubricants, Inc. ...................................54 Lubrication Technology, Inc. .................................48

SATURATION DIVING EQUIPMENT Aqua-Air Industries, Inc........................................21 Lexmar Engineering Pte Ltd .................................13

HULL SCRUBBERS Armada Systems, Inc ...........................................46 The Desmond-Stephan Manufacturing Co. ..........55

SLINGBAGS Quikrete ...............................................................48

COMMERCIAL DIVING EQUIPMENT RENTALS Aqua-Air Industries, Inc........................................21 National Tool Leasing, LLC ...................................55 COMMERCIAL DIVING EQUIPMENT SALES Advanced Marine Pte Ltd. ....................................43 Aqua-Air Industries, Inc........................................21 Armada Systems, Inc ...........................................46 Bay Tech Equipment Rentals, Inc. ........................42 Commercial Diving Supply, LLC............................55 Dive Commercial International, Inc.......................53 Divers Supply, Inc...................... Outside Back Cover Jack Vilas & Associates, Inc. ................................47 Miller Diving .........................................................40 Morgan City Rentals .............................................25 Redﬁsh Rental, Inc. ..............................................47 Shark Marine Technologies Inc. .............................5 Steffen Inc. ..........................................................39 COMMERCIAL DIVING SCHOOLS Commercial Diving Academy................................49 Divers Academy International...............................46 Divers Institute of Technology ..............................52 Minnesota Commercial Diver Training Center.......53 The Ocean Corporation ........................................51 COMPRESSORS Nuvair ..................................................................40 CUTTING & WELDING SYSTEMS Petrogen, Inc. .......................................................49 DIVING GAS PRAXAIR Inc. .......................................................55 DIVING HELMETS G2000SS, Inc. ......................................................55 Kirby Morgan Dive Systems International, Inc. .....10

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NAVIGATION SYSTEMS CDL Inc ................................................................24

UNDERWATER CAMERAS DeepSea Power & Light, Inc. ................................55 VideoRay ................................................................3

NUCLEAR & HYDRO ENERGY Armada Systems, Inc ...........................................46

UNDERWATER ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS Marshall Underwater ............................................48

PILE JACKETS Riverbend Fiberglass ............................................55

UNDERWATER IMAGING SYSTEMS JW Fishers Manufacturing Company ....................39 Outland Technology Inc. .......................................54

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