RD Instruments has arranged to host their advanced OS training session aboard SEA’s newest sailing vessel, the SSV Robert C. Seamans. The well appointed 134 foot steel brigantine is the most sophisticated oceanographic research/sailing school vessel ever built in the United States, complete with wet/dry laboratory, library, classroom, and computer laboratory.

SEA, located in Woods Hole, MA is an organization that provides undergraduates with an opportunity to participate in an academic semester long program called the SEA Semester. This program combines an intensive six week shore component in oceanography, maritime studies, and nautical science with a hands-on six week sea component aboard a traditional sailing ship. Piloting, celestial navigation, and practical seamanship are learned together with oceanographic sampling techniques and marine laboratory procedures.

RDI’s advanced, three-day/two-night, at-sea training session is will be held aboard the SEA vessel, which is scheduled to depart Los Angles, CA on September 7, 2002 and return to San Diego on September 9, 2002. RDI’s trainers will provide users with comprehensive laboratory and at-sea training on the OS system set up, data acquisition, and data interpretation - and, as a bonus, members of the SEA crew will offer hands on vessel and navigation training from the Sea Education curriculum. Students will walk away with a thorough understanding of the capabilities of the OS ADCP, and in-depth insight into the data that they collect.

This unique venue allows RDI the opportunity to intersperse plenty of well earned fun and relaxation into this lively event - and the cost is no more than students would pay for standard OS classroom product training. Space is limited for this first time event, and slots will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. Please visit http://www.rdinstruments.com for detailed event information, or contact Gina Lopez at Tel. 858-693-1178 / e-mail: glopez@rdinstruments.com.

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NORTH FALMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS, June 21, 2002 . . . BENTHOS, INC. (NASDAQ: BTHS) announced today that one of its Pinger Receivers was successfully used to find and recover the two 'black box' recorders from a China Airlines plane that broke up over the Taiwan Strait in May with the loss of all 225 on board.

Benthos provided American Underwater Search & Survey (AUSS) of Cataumet, Massachusetts - who had contracted with the Taiwanese government to locate the recorders - with a Benthos DPL-275 Pinger Receiver, its most advanced system for locating and tracking underwater pingers. Benthos is one of only two Federal Aviation Administration-approved suppliers of Emergency Locator Beacons and is also a maker of the receivers used to find them. These beacons or 'pingers' are mounted to the black boxes and are triggered when they are immersed in water. They emit a continuous signal for a minimum of 30 days.

With Benthos equipment in hand, Arnold Carr of AUSS arrived on the crash scene and, shortly thereafter, the cockpit voice recorder was located and recovered using the DPL-275. Later that day, the flight data recorder was retrieved in the same fashion.

Benthos Pinger Receivers have now been used to find four recorders from two commercial aircraft lost recently in Asian waters. Earlier in May, AUSS utilized the same technology to retrieve the black boxes from a China Northern Airlines plane that crashed off mainland China with the loss of all aboard. The causes of both accidents have yet to be determined and investigators hope to gain some information from the black box recorders. The flight data recorder box logs flight information while the cockpit voice recorder details conversations between pilots and air traffic controllers.

Benthos, Inc., through its Undersea Systems Division, designs, manufactures, sells and services a variety of oceanographic products for underwater tasks; and through its TapTone Package Inspection Systems Division makes systems for testing consumer packages made of glass, metal or plastic. The common stock of the Company is traded on the Nasdaq SmallCap market under the symbol BTHS. For more information, Benthos can be found on the Internet at http://www.benthos.com.

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Houston (May 1, 2002) - Master Class Seminars has announced the hosting of the Offshore Survey Training Seminar, October 21 through October 25, 2002. The workshop will be held in West Houston, at a venue to be announced shortly.

The course is being offered in response to a high level of demand for advanced and hands-on offshore survey training, and will include instruction on the theoretical, operational and data processing aspects of surface and underwater positioning, seabed mapping; geodesy and coordinate systems. There will also be talks on the latest concepts and technologies associated with GPS, inertial systems, and the relevance of GIS for offshore applications.

Steve Shipman, MBE of Flagship Training Ltd, will lead a panel of expert instructors, each of whom was selected for their practical knowledge as well as their extensive experience in developing and delivering high-level industry training courses. Steve was invested as a Member of the British Empire (MBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his Services to Hydrographic Education with the British Royal Navy.

As part of the five-day course, participants will spend a day onboard a vessel observing offshore survey systems in action. The systems to be demonstrated will include GPS, differential GPS and acoustic positioning; multibeam bathymetry, sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, inertial platforms and motion sensors. The training vessel is sponsored by Kongsberg Simrad, GeoAcoustics, Thales Skyfix and TSS, who will also host an evening icebreaker social scheduled for the second day of the seminar. The icebreaker will be attended by industry professionals and will provide a valuable forum for the exchange of ideas and the sharing of knowledge from academic and industry standpoints.

Since the workshop is limited to 40 participants, interested parties are encouraged to sign-up early. Registration prior to July 1 is $1,775.00. After July 1, the cost will be $1,875.00.

Members of the Marine Technology Society and the Hydrographic Society will receive a $75.00 discount. The registration fee includes five-day tuition, course materials, daily lunch and refreshments and a ticket for the icebreaker social.

Master Class Seminars is a division of TMS International, a full-service business planning and marketing company with offices in Houston and the U.K. The company provides detailed long and short-term strategic recommendations, and as well as program implementation.

Flagship Training Ltd was formed in 1997 to work with Britain’s Royal Navy Training and Recruiting Agency. The aim of the company is to sell spare capacity in the naval training system to commercial customers.

For more information, or to register, please contact Andy Bogle, TMS International, 14739 Bramblewood Drive, Houston, Texas 77079. Telephone: 281.870.9407. Fax: 281.870.8847 or e.mail bogle@tmsico.com. Or visit the web site at http://www.mc-seminars.com

Octopus Marine is pleased to report that its business and assets have been merged with CODA Technologies Ltd.

Both Octopus and CODA see this as a very positive move with the merger combining the skills and resources of two market leading marine technology companies. In addition it also offers exciting opportunities for growth and development in the future.

Octopus Marine will now be exclusively focussed on products and systems and will remain based at our existing HQ near Oxford, UK with the same contact details. The same key team of experienced staff have remained in place and are committed to supporting all customers into the future.

There are already integrated plans being prepared for Octopus and CODA and the merged company is now able to offer both product lines with an even stronger than before combined after sales support and backup service.

For more information on the merger or products please contact Angus Lugsdin at Octopus Marine angus@octopusmarine.com or Stephen Auld at CODA Technologies stephen.auld@coda.co.uk

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Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce the worldwide introduction of the
Laser Alignment-branded family of service locator tools known as DIGICAT(tm)
100, DIGITEX(tm) 8/33 and DIGITRACE(tm) 30/50/80.

The DIGICAT 100 location system provides a fast and safe solution for tracing buried utility services. DIGICAT 100 utilizes three detection modes: Power to located energized power cables up to 3m deep; Radio to locate metallic services which radiate radio waves; and Generator to locate tracer information, generated by the DIGITEX 8/33, in inactive power cable and other services.

Designed to meet the stringent requirements of today's tracing operations, the DIGICAT 100 offers several standard vital safety features rarely found in similar units from other manufacturers. The DIGICAT has dual waterproof speakers and a headphone socket, alkaline batteries, and digital microprocessor control. Plus it automatically defaults to power mode at maximum sensitivity.

Lightweight and with an alkaline battery that provides over 40-hours of continuous use, the DIGITEX 8/33 is a dual frequency generator for maximum flexibility.

The DIGITRACE 30/50/80 is a coiled 4.5mm diameter fiberglass rod on a reel, which incorporates a copper wire. The wire is connected to a DIGITEX Signal Generator to pass a 33 or 8 kHz traceable signal either through the entire length of the rod or just the end. Use this in tracing non-metallic pipes, such as drains or sewers, plastic pipes, plastic ducting etc. The DIGI(tm) System comes with a full range of accessories, including the DIGIMOUSE(tm), signal clamps and property connection cable sets.

The DIGI family of service locator tools are available through the Laser Alignment dealer network.

Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Leica Geosystems GR LLC is within the Surveying & Engineering Division of Leica Geosystems. The other divisions are GIS & Mapping, Consumer Products, Industrial Measurement, Special Products and New Businesses. Leica Geosystems develops, manufactures, and markets systems for surveying, mapping and position determination. The Corporate Headquarters are in Heerbrugg, Switzerland, with development and production subsidiaries in Switzerland, Asia and the United States. Contact Leica Geosystems GR LLC 6330 28th Street SE Grand Rapids, MI 49546

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India’s National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, have become the latest organisation to take delivery of a GeoAcoustics Deep Tow 2000 system. The specialised deep-water survey system is to be used for gas-hydrate research, mid-oceanic ridge research and for hydrographic surveys in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of India.

Rated to 3,000 metres depth the system employs a single co-axial armoured tow cable measuring 9km in length. To ensure signal integrity over this length of cable a combination of analogue and digital transmission techniques are utilised.

At these cable lengths, standard high-speed digital modems do not work. However, several channels of high resolution analogue data can easily be carried on such a cable, while leaving enough bandwidth free for relatively low-speed bi-directional digital links used for command, control and low bandwidth digital data from sensors such as the optional magnetometer and the attitude/depth sensors.

On board sensors including side scan sonar and sub bottom profiler give long range and high-resolution data, which is displayed at the surface on the GeoPro 4.

The system utilises GeoAcoustics widely used Dual Frequency Side Scan system and innovative GeoChirp II Sub Bottom Profiler. Whilst the Side scan needs no introduction, the SBP brings some new and exciting techniques to the sphere of underwater profiling.

Typically deep penetration systems (sparkers and boomers) rely on non-linear conversion of electrical energy to acoustic energy - very inefficient and making them unsuitable for long cable operation and poor at achieving high resolution data. Pingers are more efficient, but for a given power level cannot increase energy in the water without increasing pulse width and compromising resolution. Chirp systems, offer the potential to eliminate the trade-off between penetration and resolution but existing chirp systems have been limited by the performance of existing transducers combined with the inefficiencies of existing linear amplifiers. In practical terms this has often resulted in poor penetration in coarser sediments.

The GeoAcoustics Chirp II system addresses all these problems. The new GeoChirp II transmitter contains a better than 95 per cent efficient linear power amplifier which can deliver 5kW peak power into the acoustic transducers. This new amplifier combined with newly designed deep rated wideband transducers allows a single GeoChirp II pulse to put more energy into the water than a single boomer shot while offering even greater resolution than the original GeoChirp system. At present no other system can approach this performance, regardless of cable length. Results are described as "excellent" even in difficult coarse sands.

At the top end GeoPro 4 is used to select the appropriate chirp signal from a menu, depending upon seabed conditions, and the data is displayed such that profiler targets can be matched to the corresponding side scan trace. A full suite of enhancement tools, all accessible in real time completes the line up.

Contact Tina Moan, Sales Engineer GeoAcoustics Limited Shuttleworth Close Gapton Hall Industrial Estate Great Yarmouth Norfolk NR31 0NQ Tel: +44 (0) 1493 600666 Fax: +44 (0) 1493 651100 or visit their web site at http://www.geoacoustics.com

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Mr van der Groen moves into the new position after spending the last 7 years as Senior Marketing Manager for Thales GeoSolutions (Australasia) Limited.

The new role will see Mr van der Groen further strengthen existing client relationships, while working with local personnel to explore new markets within the Asia Pacific region. The new position will be based in Perth, Western Australia.

For further information please contact Mr Bart van der Groen on +61 (0)8 9344 7166 or via email bart.vandergroen@thales-geosolutions.com

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The two-year appraisal program undertaken by the contracting companies indicates a preliminary estimate of the producible reserves from the Kashagan field in the range of seven to nine billion barrels of oil. These figures will be revised on the basis of the results of further studies and data.

This declaration of commerciality enables preparation of a development plan for the Kashagan field for the mutual benefit of the people of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the contracting companies.

The contracting companies will continue to explore other structures in the North Caspian Sea contract area by drilling Kalamkas (2002), Kashagan South West (2003), Aktote (2003), and Kairan (2003).

The contracting companies involved in the North Caspian Sea PSA are: Eni, operating the project through Agip KCO, with an interest of 16.67 percent; BG, 16.67 percent; ExxonMobil, 16.67 percent; Inpex, 8.33 percent; Phillips, 8.33 percent, Shell, 16.67 percent; and TotalFinaElf, 16.67 percent.

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FallRiver, MA. Not since the infamous 2nd Ocean technology Workshop has any eventbeen so anticipated by participants and attendees. The 3rd OceanTechnology Workshop, taking place Sept. 23, 24, 25, 2002 will not disappoint. "We moved thealready very successful event from Falmouth, Massachusetts to Plymouth, Massachusetts because we wanted to make it more convenient for folks to get to (Plymouth is located 1 hour from Logan Airport and TF Green Airport in RI.) and we wanted to run more boat demonstrations", said Ted Curley, 3rd OTW Chairman.

This time the workshops will be held at the Sheraton Inn in Plymouth and the boat trips will run from the State Pier, only 1 block from the Sheraton. During the week of September23-25, 2002 leaders in marine technology manufacturing and services willgather for a third time to provide hands-on training and at-sea equipment demonstrations on the latest products. Products and services to be featured include: current measurement devices, underwater imaging systems, sides cansonar, sub-bottom profilers, data acquisition systems, echosounders, acousticreleases, electronic charting software, real time environmental monitoring systems and much, more. Newthis time are the northeast regional training workshops for Coastal Oceanographics HYPACK mini-camp and the ARGOS System Users Group. In addition we are pleased to announce that the New England Section of the Marine Technology Society will be sponsoring and coordinating a star-studded Technical Speaker Tract to take place each afternoon.

Withover fifteen separate workshops and as many at sea equipment demonstrations, one should be able to operate and evaluate a lot of products in one spot in avery short period of time. The 3rd Ocean Technology Workshop offers equipment operators and buyers a unique opportunity to learn how the products perform. Oceanographers, coastal and offshore surveyors, marine operations managers, field technicians, government officials in charge of purchasing equipment, oil exploration personnel, search and survey personnel and program managers will benefit from seeing these products in action both on land and at sea. Therewill be two days of concurrent sessions where product engineers will demonstrate equipment and discuss applications on a wide variety of new and existing products. This is a great opportunity to meet with design engineers who can instruct you on the fine points of equipment operations.

There will be an opportunity each day to board one of several coastal research vessels that will provided by MOTN members to see some of the new products operate in the waters off Plymouth, MA.

For reservations: Call the Sheraton Inn’s reservation line and mention the MOTN event at 508/747-4900 24 hour reservation line: 1/800-325-3535. To Register to Attend: Contact the MOTN office or the web site at http://www.motn.org/workshop. More from M. Merrill at MOTN Tel: +781-740-1456

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"The online ordering system was created to take advantage of rapidly increasing advancements in automation technology and to keep up with customer demands," said MMS Director Johnnie Burton. "With this system, we can provide better and more efficient customer service."

Approximately 170,000 well logs with run dates of December 1995 and prior are available to the public. The logs are scanned in raster format (TIFF images) and include 1-inch and 5-inch induction, neutron density, formation density, and dipmeter logs.

On the MMS website at www.gomr.mms.gov, the new feature is designed to be flexible. Information can be retrieved quickly and easily from the index of releasable well logs. The user can search the online index for a specific well log by entering a specific area and any of the following criteria: API number, lease number, block number, well name, or log type. Once the requested logs are identified, they can be added to a shopping cart and ordered online. A fee of $15 per CD-ROM to cover the cost of supplies and mailing will be charged to the customer’s credit card. Once the credit card transaction is approved, the logs will be written to a CD, labeled, packaged, and shipped the next day. The system also allows the user to track and review past and pending orders, and to create custom labels for the CD’s.

"The new system spares MMS customers the inconvenience and expense of having to visit the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region’s Public Information Office in New Orleans to duplicate well logs on paper. As a matter of fact, after August 2002, paper copies of online well logs will no longer be available," explained Ms. Burton. "This is the latest in a series of improvements that MMS has implemented to provide better service to its many customers.

MMS is the federal agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the nation's oil, natural gas and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf in federal offshore waters. The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses mineral revenues from federal and Indian leases. These revenues totaled nearly $10 billion in 2001 and more than $120 billion since the agency was created in 1982. Annually, nearly $1 billion from those revenues go into the Land and Water Conservation Fund for the acquisition and development of state and federal park and recreation lands. Visit MMS’s website at: http://www.mms.gomr.gov

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Through a standard web browser, all EMO staff can now find and display quickly, topographical maps and provincial base data.

The application eliminates the need for EMO to purchase, store and maintain paper maps, which become outdated quickly. Since the electronic map data accessed through the Spatial Fusion application is being updated on a regular basis, users have the most up to date information available whenever or wherever needed.

CARIS Spatial Fusion is the web-mapping development platform used to build this customized web-based GIS solution. Spatial Fusion's unique distributed service-based architecture allows data in its native format to be securely shared across EMO's Intranet.

"Spatial Fusion is serving as an enabling tool for better hazard analysis, emergency planning and disaster response," said Ernest MacGillivray, Emergency Management Specialist and project lead for the Emergency Measures Organization, Department of Public Safety. "In addition, it will give us a new capability - the ability to integrate data from a variety of sources, in real time, into a consolidated picture."

The flexibility of Spatial Fusion's front-end Java components coupled with distributed back-end spatial services will easily accommodate the future growth of the system. Development plans will see the application linked to databases to support the hazardous material program, critical infrastructure program and 911 program. Potential is also being explored for use of the system in flood modeling, storm surge modeling, plume modeling for hazardous material spills and mapping for emergency dispatch.

The New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization is an emergency management and coordinating agency of government that prepares and provides support to mitigate the effects of disasters for the province and its municipalities.

With more than 23 years experience providing Geomatics software, CARIS has expertise and experience in providing innovative solutions for the management and analysis of spatial data supporting local government infrastructures. COntact Sheri Flanagan - Communications Specialist Corporate Marketing, CARIS 264 Rookwood Avenue, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 2M2, Canada Tel: +1-506-458-8533 Fax: +1-506-459-3849. See You In Norfolk - http://www.caris.com/caris2002

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HOUSTON, Jul 1, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Technip-Coflexip (NYSE: TKP and Euronext: 13170) and Cal Dive International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDIS) announce the signature on Friday, June 28, in Aberdeen, Scotland, of a Business Sales & Purchase Agreement relative to the Subsea Well Operations Business Unit of CSO Ltd., a fully owned subsidiary of Technip- Coflexip. The transaction, valued at $67.5 million, is expected to close within days and is in line with the already announced Technip-Coflexip program to dispose of non-strategic assets during the coming 12 months.

Under the terms of this agreement, CSO Ltd. will transfer to Well Ops (U.K.) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cal Dive, all activities and resources dedicated to Subsea Well Intervention, including the specialized, dynamically positioned vessel Seawell as well as assignment of current client and vendor contracts. Purpose built for well operations, the Seawell, a 111-meter, DP3 vessel, was recently upgraded for coiled tubing deployment and well testing.

Engineering, project management and specialized CSO Ltd. personnel dedicated to its Well Operations Business Unit will join Cal Dive as well. To ensure the continuity of the business and its operations with the highest standard of quality and safety, CSO Ltd. will provide, for an interim period, a number of support services, particularly in the areas of vessel management and diving support. In return, the vessel will be made available to CSO Ltd. through a cooperative agreement to support its contracting needs.

Tom Ehret, President of the Offshore Branch of Technip-Coflexip, declared, "In the late eighties, we created the technology and operation of subsea well operations from a dynamically positioned monohull vessel. Since then, this business line has gained full market acceptance, and our Subsea Well Operation Business Unit is the clear leader in this segment. Today, within the broader context and strategy of the Technip-Coflexip Group, this activity is no longer part of our core business. We are therefore very pleased to announce this agreement with Cal Dive, and we believe that Cal Dive is very well placed to pursue and further develop successfully these well operations activities."

Owen Kratz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cal Dive, commented, "This acquisition emphasizes the commitment of Cal Dive to be the leading and dominant provider for the industry's needs in the developing subsea well service market. Combining the subsea lubricator (SIL) based technology developed by Technip-Coflexip with the riser-based technology being pioneered by Cal Dive's Q4000 greatly enhances the ability of CDI to deliver the best subsea solutions for our clients. We are pleased to be able to work with CSO Ltd. in consummating this acquisition, which illustrates the mutually beneficial relationship between the two companies."

With a workforce of about 18,000 and annual pro-forma revenues of nearly 4.5 billion euros, Technip-Coflexip ranks among the top five in the field of oil and petrochemical engineering, construction and services. Headquartered in Paris, the Group is listed in New York (NYSE: TKP) and in Paris (EURONEXT: 13170). The main engineering and business centers of Technip- Coflexip are located in France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Norway, the Netherlands, the United States, Brazil, Abu-Dhabi, China, India, Malaysia and Australia. The Group has high-quality industrial and construction facilities in France, Brazil, the UK, the USA, and Finland as well as a world class fleet of offshore construction vessels.

Cal Dive International, Inc. headquartered in Houston, TX, is an energy service company specializing in well operations and subsea construction. CDI operates a fleet of technically advanced marine construction vessels and robotics, and conducts salvage operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Energy Resource Technology, Inc., acquires and operates mature and non-core offshore oil and gas properties.

Simmons & Company International Limited, the specialist energy industry investment bank, advised Technip-Coflexip on this transaction. Contact Jim Nelson, Vice Chairman of Cal Dive International, Tel: +1-281-618-0400, Fax: +1-281-618-0505 (CDIS TKP).

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• Int. Conf. in Coastal Engineering 2002, Cardiff, Wales, July 7-12
• Ocean Mapping Group Multibeam Training Course, Sydney, Australia August 13-18
• 2nd Int. Symp. GIS/Spatial Analyses Fishery/Aquatic Sciences, Brighton, Sept. 2-6
• CARIS 2002: 7th Annual CARIS Users' Conference, Norfolk, Virginia. September 3-6
• Submarine Networks World Asia 2002, Singapore, September 5-6
• 6th DP 2002, MTS Dynamic Positioning Conference, Houston, TX, September 17-18
• 3rd Ocean Technology Workshop, Plymouth, Massachusetts,September 23-25
• GPS 2002, Institute of Navigation Meeting, Portland, Oregon,September 24-27
• UUVS 2002: Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase, Southampton, Sept. 25-26
• Second Annual Offshore Communications 2002, Houston, Texas, October 1-3
• Hydro 2002, Kiel, Germany October 08 -10
• Oceans 2002 MTS/IEEE, Biloxi, Mississippi, October 29-31
• Deep Offshore Technology, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 13-15

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