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Pictured on this month's cover is the launch of an innovative UUV from Boeing. See story on page 36.
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ABS 15 Acergy 51 Advanced Marine 50 Aker Kvaerner 13,16,56 Alcock Ashdown 49 Allseas Group 59 Applied Acoustics 42 Atlantas Marine 50 Australian Dept. of Defense 49 AUVSI 46,49 Bluefin 47 Boeing 36 Bollinger Shipyard 15 BP America 26 C&C Technologies 16 Cameron 16 Canada Foundation for Innovation 52 Canadian Center for Marine Communications 44 Captain Anthony Patterson 46 C-Core 44 Cheryl Zimmerman 34,52 Coda Octapus 51 Colmek Systems Engineering 51 David Karl 20 David Siegel 20 Deborah Steinberg 20 Deep Ocean Engineering 49 Dirk Kempthorne 9 Donald Aker 42 Dr. Brian Abraham 47 Dr. Jerry Stachiw 48 Dr. Joseph Bondaryk 47 Dr. Robert Ballard 19 Dr. Wendell Brown 12 DYNAenergetics GmbH 56 Dynamic Positioning Services 50 Dyneema 59 Edgetech 51 Electric Boat 34 Empire Magnetics 8 Endeco/YSI 51 EPIC Divers & Marine 15 Faro 57 FarSounder 34 FarSounder 52 Frank Dehairs 20 Fugro Survey 49 Geo Marine Technology 52 George Schmahl 19 Hamish Thomsen 16 Herakles Telecom 51 Hydroid 49 ICAN 44
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