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www.sea-technology.com February 2016 / st 51 RTsys Develops Next Generation of AUV RTsys has developed COMET AUV, a compact system with high speed and autonomy that is quickly reconfigu- rable and deployable. It weighs less than 35 kg and can speed up to 15 kt. It is able to cover a 200-km distance at 3 kt. on a single deployment thanks to its rechargeable batter- ies. Moreover, COMET AUVs can be used as collaborative underwater drones or operate in "swarm" mode. The COMET AUV will be displayed at Oceanology Inter- national 2016, and a conference on COMET AUV will be held March 15. Aquatic Achieves 1 Million Working Hours Without a Single Lost Time Incident Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd. has marked 1 million working hours without a single Lost Time Incident (LTI). This milestone follows Aquatic's achievement of 1,000 days without an LTI in December 2014. The improvement level in FPAL scoring since 2013 and successful accreditation to BizSafe3 in Singapore demon- strate that Aquatic is continually improving standards and providing training opportunities across HSEQ. VIKING, Daemyung Marine Invest in Korea Marine safety equipment manufacturer and servicing provider VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S will be estab- lishing a local presence in Korea through a joint venture agreement with Daemyung Marine Co. Ltd. The venture aims to bring faster access for Korean-based and foreign-flag ship managers in the cargo, passenger and offshore segments to the full range of VIKING products and service concepts. It is the next logical step for a highly suc- cessful partnership that has extended over more than 30 years. Ecoslops Agrees to Develop New Recycling Plant in the Ivory Coast Ecoslops recently announced that it has received an agreement in principle from the Port of Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast, to provide the company with land on which to estab- lish a new oil residue recycling plant in the region. The Abidjan Port Authority has granted Ecoslops with more than 538,000 sq. ft. of land within the port boundar- ies. Ecoslops will begin preliminary studies and analysis to evaluate the full fnancial and technical considerations of the project and establish relationships with local partners. CASCADe R&D; Project Develops New Ship Bridge Designs CASCADe, a three-year, EU-funded project, has devel- oped new methodologies in which information is shared and displayed on a ship's bridge, helping to improve ef- fciency on board and contribute towards the prevention of accidents at sea. Drawing directly from the experience of seafarers, CAS- CADe has developed a new adaptive bridge design meth- odology that treats both human agents and electronic international