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New technology to improve offshore training and safety

The Fisheries and Marine Institute (MI) of Memorial University will be the first institution in the world to use innovative new simulation equipment that improves the safety of lifeboat training

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The equipment, called SurvivalQuest, will be unveiled to the media on Friday, Feb. 25, at a 10 a.m. news conference at the Southside Marine Base, Marine Institute (Pier 25). Virtual Marine Technology (VMT) is transferring the SurvivalQuest equipment to MI.

SurvivalQuest was developed by Virtual Marine Technology in conjunction with a research and development team led by Dr. Brian Veitch, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science and Antonio Simoes Re of the National Research Council Institute of Ocean Technology.

Funding for the project came from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), the provincial department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development and Petroleum Research Atlantic Canada (PRAC).

Speakers at the Friday news conference include Dr. Christopher Loomis, vice-president (research), Memorial University; Senator Elizabeth Marshall, representing ACOA; Capt. Anthony Patterson of Virtual Marine Technology; and Glenn Blackwood, executive director, Marine Institute.

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