Naval vessels at sea are constantly exposed to a harsh environment, including saltwater, rain, hail, and extreme heat and cold. Sailors battle the elements with a routine of daily shipboard maintenance including painting, touch-ups and repairs. Historically, touch-up paint solutions involve time consuming and inaccurate hand mixing and frequently result in surplus unused mixed paint that must be disposed. Sulzer
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Turner Designs has named Stacey Duff as president. She joins Turner Designs from Papco Industries, where she started as a driver 23 years ago, worked her way up to president, and recently sold the company. The former Turner Designs president, Jim Crawford, has known Duff for five years and was impressed with how she handled several difficult business challenges while maintaining a positive culture at Papco.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office has accepted a new method of deep-ocean, mobile desalination by Bob Evans and Susanne Chess that could revolutionize the production of freshwater. Significant energy savings are predicted as deep-ocean pressure does much of the work required to force saltwater through reverse osmosis filters. The process is natural. By operating below 900 ft., where
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Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has entered into an agreement to acquire Hydroid Inc., a provider of advanced marine robotics to the defense and maritime markets and a U.S.-based indirect subsidiary wholly owned by Kongsberg Maritime. In conjunction with the transaction, HII and Kongsberg Maritime are also establishing a strategic alliance to jointly market naval and maritime products and services to the
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The groundbreaking Triton 36000/2 will be utilized once again by investor and explorer Victor Vescovo as he embarks on a new series of dives in 2020, visiting never before seen ocean depths and famed historic sites. A collaboration between Triton Submarines, Vescovo and EYOS Expeditions, the Caladan Oceanic expeditions will be documented in real-time between February and July of 2020.
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, a graduate research university of science and technology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced that Carlos M. Duarte, Ph.D., professor of marine science and Tarek Ahmed Juffali research chair in Red Sea ecology, has received a Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Ecology and Conservation Biology from Fundación BBVA in Spain. Originally from
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