SEAKEEPER 1000™ DEPLOYMENTS DEMONSTRATE COLLABORATION BETWEEN NGO's, GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS, PRIVATE COMPANIES, AND ACADEMIA

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SEAKEEPER 1000™ DEPLOYMENTS DEMONSTRATE COLLABORATION BETWEEN NGO's, GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS, PRIVATE COMPANIES, AND ACADEMIA

More than 50 systems are installed worldwide on a variety of platforms, all of which are capable of carrying additional FSISTM compliant sensors - 20 more systems are in progress.

Deployments includes:

Commercial Ships
Cruise Ships
Car Ferries
NOAA Buoys
Lighthouses
Piers
Private Yachts
United States Coast Guard Ice Breaker

SOME SAMPLE COLLABORATIONS

AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL LINES
Three APL vessels are currently carrying a modified SeaKeeper 1000 on their transpacific routes to upply better data to assist in marine forecasting South of the Aleutian Islands in winter.

CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES (including Holland America Lines)
Five Carnival Cruise line cruise ships are carrying systems on trans Panama, Caribbean, Hawiian, an Alaskan routes.

METALNAVE, BRAZIL
Metalnave, in conjunction with scientists at Sao Paulo University, have equipped a liquefied gas carrier that travels the coastal waters of Brazil.

METROSTAR MANAGEMENT, GREECE
Metrostar management of Greece are purchasing a system to equip a new build bulk carrier with a SeaKeeper 1000 system.

NOAA MARINE SANCTUARIES PROGRAM
One vessel is currently equipped with the SK1000 system and three additional systems are on order and will be deployed by the end of 2007.

NOAA NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTER
After extensive testing and evaluation, several NDBC buoys and C-Man stations are using the SeaKeeper 1000 Ocean Sensing Module (OSM) to add surface oceanographic observations to the traditional meteorological data gathered by these buoys. This program will expand as the NDBC buoys become part of the federally supported backbone of the 11 Coastal Ocean Observing Systems around the United States, Hawaii, US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

OCEANCO YACHTS OF MONACO AND ALBLASSERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Having equipped one luxury yacht last year, oceAnco is now purchasing systems to equip four vessels presently under construction. The shipyard has also committed to similarly equip all new vessels that they construct with the SeaKeeper 1000 units.

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE LINES
RCCL Explorer of the Seas carries a SeaKeeper 1000 system as part of a very sophisticated monitoring system maintained in conjunction with the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.

SCCOOS (SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM)
SeaKeepers is running a demonstration project on Scripps Pier in La Jolla, California, where a Satlantic ISIS Nitrate sensor and a SeaBird SeaKeepers TSG (thermosalinograph) are currently being evaluated. Future plans include the evaluation of a Brooke Technologies Laser Optical Plankton Counter, a Pro-Oceanus gas tension pCO2 sensor and a General Oceanics pCO2 sensor. It is also planned to start another test site at Huntington Beach in the near future.

SNCM FERRIES OF FRANCE
Le Mediterranee, a car ferry traveling between Marseilles and North Africa, carries a SeaKeeper 1000TM system equipped with a Turner “Cyclops” fluorometer. This data is processed by IFREMER in Toulon as part of the CIESM (Commission Internationale pour l’Exploration de la Mer) Mediterranean countries joint research effort.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller (1971)

Some scientists estimate that more than a third of all human-produced CO2 has been absorbed by the oceans, which has dramatically increased the acidity of seawater. If CO2 emissions continue to rise as predicted in one scenario by the IPCC (spell out), by 2100 the oceans could become more acidic than they have been in ten million years, spelling disaster for corals and crustaceans.