UNDERWATER MAGAZINE
NO:2, SPRING 1999
11 A Bona Fide Energy Crisis?
Guest Columnist
Matthew Simmons
19 Market Report: Gulf of Mexico
What Happened?
G. Kane & P. Weginann
23 OTC '99 Expecting Over 50,000
Inspection and Maintenance of
Single Point Mooring Systems
W. F. Stevens
25 Case Study:
Keeping an Eye on SPMs
J.A. Nunez & E. Mosquera
27 Underwater Intervention '99
SUCCESS in the Crescent City Defies Shaky
Oill/gas Market
31 Improving Vessel Capabilities
to Support ROV Projects
doug Stroud
39 The Historic Fate
of Submarine F-l
J- Smithson and E. Luchs
41 ROV Training Simulators
The New Frontier
Ken Baumgartner
43 Fiber Optic Telemetry for
deepwater ROV Operations
T. Dwyer, l. MacKay, & G. Smith
47 Letter from the ÄDC President
Jerry Gauthier
48 ADC Chapter & Committee reorts
50 Parity or Politics:
Global Commercial Diving Standards
Howie Doyle
53 UnderWater Letters
55 Workers' Compensation:
New Plan Custom Tailoredfor ADC Membe
P. Souza & S. Macquarrie
57 Message from the ADC Executive Director
ROSS Saxon, PhD.
59 Case Studies
Hydrographie SURveys
69 Integrated Navigation Systems
time spent Now Can Save
MoneyLater
Scott Nesbitt
73 New Product Roundup
74 Financial Currents
75 Forensic Research Goes Under
at Texas A & M University
B. Phaneuf & P.W. Hitchcock
78 Trident Foundation Aiding Local
Search Efforts
80 New ADC Members
81 SubServ's Modular ROV Training
83 Exclusions and Exemptions from
OSHA's Commercial Diving Standard
Stephen Sea Bauer
89 Fore! The Dangers of Diving for Golf Balls
Madalyn Russell
91 y2k:The End of Time?
Graham Smith
94 UnderWater Calendar of Events
97 Diving Law Update
A.G. "Alec" Alexander, III
99 Changes in the Air for ACDE
101 UnderWater Currents
106 Display Advertiser Index
107 Dredge Pictorial
113 Corrosion Control
Types of Corrosion
Harvey P. Hack, PhD.
119 Cableships of the Worid
Alisdair Wilkie
135 Submarine Telecom News & Notes
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UNDERWATER MAGAZINE
NO. 3, 1999
11 Market Reports: Canada
Divins into the Great White North
Madalyn Russell
19 Deepwater Pipeline Repair
Oceaneering and Mariner Energy
Push the Envelope
John Charalambides
24 Rig Positioning:
it Right the First Time
Aubrey Sheen
27 Corrosion Control:
Corrosion and
stainless Steel
Harvey P. Hack, PhD.
31 Corrosion Resistance:
Using Polymers as an Alternative
to Metals
Robert Gibson
35 Case Studies:
Underwater Vehicle Designs
47 Tales From Inner Space:
Recovering NASA's Liberty Bell 7
Madalyn Russell
49 ROVs Go Nuclear:
Crosscutting into Nuclear
Remediation Projects
Louis Cranek
51 Letter from the ADC President
Jerry Gauthier
53 underWater Letters
55 ADC Chapter & Committee
Reports
58 New Product Roundup
60 Message from the ADC
Executive Director
Saxon, PhD.
63 The Marketplace:
M arine power
67 The Eyes Have It:
Underwater Imaging Pictorial
82 Financial Currents
83 Diving Accidents:
Truth or Consequences
Steven M. Barsky
87 Modern Thoughts on
Decompression Theory
Steven M aberry
91 Agency Update
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Diving Program
Bernard Tate, USACE
93 News & Notes
95 Fathoming Time & Time:
The Musical Muse Goes
Underwater
Howie Doyle
99 Underwater Technology Enabh
Extreme Tourism
100 Diving Law Update
A, G. Alexander, III
102 Underwater Calendar of
Events
104 Under water Rescue:
Confined Space Operation
Saves Diver
E Catlett, Jr.
109 Underwater Currents
114 Display Advertiser Index
115 Petrocom's FiberWeb:
Bringing Broadband
Communications to Offshore
Platforms
120 Ul 2000 Call for Papers
121 Cable Lay Planning and Real-
Time Control Software
Dr . Jose And res
124 Navigation and Positioning:
More Than An Afterthought in
Cable and Pipe Lay Operations
Scott Nesbitt