BUSINESS BRIEFS NEWTSUIT THE NEWTSUIT, manufactured by North Vancouver-based Hard Suits lac., will be modelled at a gala New York premier on Mon- day, June 21, The. event marks the North American opening of the IMAX film . Flight of the Aquanaut, an under-water drama shot in the world-famous wide-screen format starring the NEWTSUIT. - Stephen Low Productions, the producers of the Flight of the Aquanaut, used the B.C. firm Lindsey Models to create a full- scale, minutely detailed modc! of the NEWTSUIT to grace the entry area of the theatre, amid photos and graphics of older atmospheric diving systems. FERRY. TECHNOLOGY THE B.C. Ferry Corporation’s ; (BCFC) Queen ot Cowichan is plying its route from Horseshoe Bay to Langdale, 40 minutes north of Vancouver on the Sun- shine Coast, with the help of a new piece of electronic equipment. The Queen of Cowichan's new guide is an electronic chart system developed by Offshore Systems International (OSD) of North Van- couver, in collaboration with the Canadiana Hydrographic Service of the Department of Fisheries sad Oceans. ; The chart system is part of a pilot program which will evaluate new electronic chart technology designed to prevent marine acci- dents and oil spills. The system is being installed on tankers, ferries, bulk carriers, fisheries patrol vessels, Canadian and U.S. coast guard ships and at marine training institutes across the country over the next three years. B.C. Ferries, the first partici- pant in the pilot project, has pro- vided feedback on the operation of the system under actual marine conditions. The $7.6 million electronic chart development program, funded under the emergency measures ini- tiatives. of the Green Plan, and following the 1990 Brander-Smith public review panel on tanker safety and marine spill response capability, is aimed at preventing environmental marine disasters such as the Exxon Valdez, and other more recent spills around the world. ALLAN APPOINTED ROBYN ALLAN, the former ‘head of the North Vancouver- based Insmrance Corp. of B.C. Important for couples to set realistic goals From page 47 ‘with friends who still lived month to month,”’ he said. “Tt really helps to write out. your plan; what you waut to do, how you will do it and over what time period.” Kim, one of the attendees, -- stressed the importance of doing _ independent research. ‘‘It’s too easy to base your moves on what your parents did —- or didn’t do,” she said. “When I started to live on my own, I tended to call the financial people my dad dealt with. 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