Obituary: André Galerne
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André Galerne, who in the early 1960s brought together a band of rugged divers willing to descend hundreds of feet to repair oil rigs, lay cables or salvage something from a sunken vessel -- starting what became the world's largest privately owned deep-sea construction company -- died on May 6 in Scottsdale, Ariz., according to his obituary published in the New York Times. He was 81. Galerne was concerned for the safety of deep-sea divers, who sometimes had to spend two weeks in a decompression chamber after an extended dive. In 1980, he received a patent for a hyperbaric transport system for divers who were injured or required special medical treatment. The system includes two titanium chambers filled with breathing gas containing oxygen. The smaller chamber can hold one or two people under high pressure and can be transported to a larger chamber with a capacity of eight people, one of whom could be a medical attendant. The larger chamber is then carried by helicopter to a land station. One of those stations, the first of its kind, is the North Sea Hyperbaric Center in Aberdeen, Scotland, in which Galerne played a major role in conceiving and constructing. In 1981, the Marine Technology Society presented Mr. Galerne with its Lockheed Award for Ocean Science and Engineering, citing his contributions to deep-diving safety. Galerne was born in Paris on Oct. 1, 1926. After studying engineering at an aeronautical school, he fought with the French underground in World War II. He made his first dive in 1943, and after the war began exploring below the surface of rivers running through the caves of southern France. He turned to deep-sea diving in the early days of underwater commercial exploration and construction. In the early 1950s, Galerne was a diver on the crew of the renowned oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau. Soon after coming to the U.S. in 1962, he started International Underwater Contractors.
(Source: New York Times & http://iucgroup.com)
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Tyco Telecom Installs MakaiLay Software
Tyco Telecommunications has purchased a full license of MakaiLay with the Slack Control Module for the CS
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Decisive and upgraded the CS Durable to the latest MakaiLay with the Slack Control Module. The MakaiLay software provides Tyco with the ability to install submarine cables with a high level of accuracy and reliability, by controlling the cable slack and touchdown position on the seabed during the installation process.
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Mako Joins Forces with T&A
T & A Systems, LLC and Mako Deepwater Inc have reached agreement to combine efforts in support of the offshore and subsea markets. As part of the agreement, Toby Selcer and Amanda Selcer, the principals of T & A Systems, will join the management team of Mako Deepwater. Toby Selcer will become the Vice President
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