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NOV 2014

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www.sea-technology.com November 2014 / st 39 plementation of initiatives that will ensure the growth and sustainability of the town, including recreation, economic development and ocean technology. Tell us more about Day in the Bay. Our goal is to offer the world an opportunity to engage with us and fnd their niche among the tremendous assets that Holyrood has to offer the ocean sector. Our develop- ment plans include the creation of an ocean/business tech- nology and industrial park surrounded by an ocean innova- tive center and healthy lifestyle/leisure center, supplemented with a model residential development that will include a cluster of ocean tech companies and organizations. To make this happen we need to provide our potential ocean partners with a reason to do business with us. Day in the Bay offers them a brief glimpse of all the assets we have right here in Holyrood to fll the needs for future develop- ment and growth. What can the area offer the marine technology industry? Holyrood is unique by its very location. Holyrood is open to a transportation route where there is unhampered access to the major developments occurring in Newfound- O CEANS'14 MTS/IEEE St. John's kicked off early on Sep- tember 13 with the frst "Day in the Bay," a preconfer- ence event in Holyrood, a town of about 2,200 people along Conception Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Cold Atlantic water circulates though this deep harbor, and icebergs routinely break off Greenland and sail by the area. Day in the Bay featured in-water technology demonstra- tions, and 13 companies were in attendance, including Teledyne Webb Research (North Falmouth, Massachusetts), MetOcean Data Systems (Dartmouth, Canada), RBR (Kana- ta, Canada), SeaBotix (San Diego, California) and SubC Im- aging (Clarenville, Canada). The brisk North wind made for a chilly, yet sunny, day, highlighting Newfoundland and Labrador's description of itself as "the world's cold-ocean laboratory." Sea Technology spoke with local industry members in the run up to OCEANS'14 St. John's to get their thoughts on the region's role in the global maritime economy. Gary Corbett, Town of Holyrood Tell us a bit about yourself. I am the chief administrative offcer for the Town of Holy- rood. My responsibilities include the identifcation and im- Newfoundland and Labrador: The World's Cold-Ocean Laboratory By Aileen Torres-Bennett A cruise ship moored next to one of the two piers at the Multidirectional Wave Basin, one of NRC's premier testing facilities. The project depicted was conducted in 2013 to support the de- sign and development of a new cruise ship terminal on the coast of Barbados, outside the Port of Bridgetown, taking into account wind, waves, swells and storms.

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