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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

OFFSHORE Systems Ltd. sales representative Gwil Roberts shows the North Vancouver company’s PC-based
electronic navigation system. Offshore and other marine and subsea industries were on hand for APEC. .

acking APEC business

NV firm aims PC
navigation system
to smaller vessels

Michael Becker

News Editor

michacl@nsnews.com

NORTH Vancouver-based

Offshore Systems Ltd. was

among the marine technology

companies on hand Sunday to

show off technological prowess

to visiting APEC participants.
The images on the computer display

. set up by OSL at the Pacific Marine

Training Campus of BCIT said it all.

* Avisitor could watch from a bird’s eve
perspective the progress of an incoming,
ship to the Port of Vancouver. Icons rep-
resenting real-time vessel traffic nearby
moved incrementally across the sereen.

Harvey Russell, OSL vice president of

engineering, is demonstrating the com-

any’s latest product, a PC computer-
Based version of the electronic chart nav-
igation system.

Said Russell: “We integrate all the
basic navigation centres on the vessel,
including radar image overlay. It gives the
captain a complete view of what's hap-
pening around the vessel. It really
improves the safe operation of the vessel
itself.”

OSL has successfully brought its tech-
nology to large commercial vessels, the
Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian

~ Navy.

By adapting the system for a desktop
or laptop computer platform the compa-
ay will make its navigation technology
available to what Russell calls “the lower-
end market.”

OSL’s goal for the APEC event was to
raise its profile. Said Russell: “We want to
introduce our technology to the APEC
countries, make some contacts and pro-
vide some basic information to the APEC
members.

Hopefully from that we will generate
some sales in the coming months and

Now open a

years.” . .

The Canadian Navy will be procuring
the OSL system for all of its warships.
The HMCS Vancouver and the HMCS
Calgary operating out of Victoria have
the electronic chart and navigation sys-
tem on board already. 0

- On the West Coast B.C. Ferries is
working with OSL technology, the Great

-Lakes region is home to approximately

150 systems, and some Atlantic ferries
are using OSL products.

“We've captured a wide range of the
market but it’s really starting to expand
and take off,” said Russell.

“We've always been in the high-end
market with a rugged application for ves-
sels that have a lot of vibration and salt
spray. Now we're moving into the PC
market — large yachts, fishing fleets and

tugboats.”

The OSL systems are used for:
@ vessel tracking and piloting in large
port regions. The technology was used at
APEC command centre;
B route tracking;
coastal defense, patrol and buoy main- -
tenance.

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