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WHOI Creates Building and Marketing Partnerships for Technology Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic In- stitution (WHOI) announced in July partnerships with two companies to build and market WHOI's Imaging FlowCy- tobot, an automated underwater microscope, and Blue- Comm, an underwater communications system that uses light to provide wireless data transmission. WHOI biologists Robert Olson and Heidi Sosik, creators of the Imaging FlowCytobot, have licensed their instrument to Falmouth, Massachusetts-based McLane Research Labo- ratories. WHOI engineers Norman E. Farr and Jonathan Ware are partnering with Sonardyne International Ltd. (Yateley, Eng- land) to create the joint venture Lumasys. GD Acquires Part of Earl Industries General Dynamics (Falls Church, Virginia) completed in July its acquisition of the Ship Repair and Coatings Division of Earl Industries (Portsmouth, Virginia). It now becomes part of the shipbuilding and repair op- erations of San Diego, California-based General Dynamics NASSCO. Nautilus Minerals Issues Shares to Fund Seafloor Production System Nautilus Minerals Inc. (Toronto, Canada) received in Au- gust a further CAD$0.5 million in gross proceeds from the issue of the first tranche of shares forming part of a nonbro- kered private placement. The 555,556 shares issued com- pletes the first tranche of a CAD$34 million capital raise for continued funding of Nautilus's Seafloor Production System. The shares will be listed on the Toronto and London, Eng- land, stock exchanges. Following this issue of shares, Nauti- lus will have 213,465,483 shares in issue. VERIPOS Gets Listed on Oslo Stock Exchange VERIPOS Ltd. (Westhill, Scotland) announced in July a formal listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange, with commence- ment of trading in its shares as an independent company. It was formerly a subsidiary of Subsea 7 (London, England). JMS Designs USGS Great Lakes Science Center FRV JMS Naval Architects & Salvage Engineers (Mystic, Con- necticut) has completed the contract design for a fisheries research vessel for the U.S. Geological Survey's Great Lakes Science Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the company an- nounced in August. The 78-foot FRV Grayling will replace the RV Grayling as a steel monohull vessel for oceanograph- ic research and fisheries assessment in the Great Lakes. It will be based at the Cheboygan Vessel Base. Coxreels Moves to Gain Production Space Coxreels (Tempe, Arizona) is moving to a location near its current facility, the company announced in July. Coxreels will remain in Tempe and gain about 50 percent more op- erational space. The new facility will provide manufacturing room. Fabri- cation, machine and welding departments have been relo- cated and are functional, the company said. n Depth Transducer 4,000 PSI Depth Rating Nose or CG Tow Connects via RS-232 or Telemetry (coax) Add Additional Weights for Deep Tow Echosounder Altimeter Super sensitivity and high speed surveying, 0.004nT/√ Hz-RMS at up to 20 samples per second! • Find smaller targets at higher tow speeds, farther from the seafloor • Survey anywhere, in any direction • Complete Data Processing software included (MagPick) • Powerful MagLog Lite logging software provides: » Survey design tools to generate multi-line survey grid on MagLog GPS map » NEW: Real-time navigation with cross-track error steering » Start-Stop logging automatically when fish enters or leaves survey grid Visit our online video library on Marine Magnetometry No-catch Fin Assembly Paired G-882 Transverse Gradiometer (TVG) Array 66 st / SEPTEMBER 2012 www.sea-technology.com