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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)

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