Tidewater Amends Bylaws and Reappoints Two Directors to Board

Tidewater Inc. has taken action to implement the board declassification proposal which has been sponsored by the Board of Directors and approved by the stockholders at the 2006 annual meeting. The Board of Directors has amended the Company's Bylaws to phase out the Company's classified board structure beginning with the 2007 annual meeting, with all director nominees at the 2007 annual meeting and thereafter to be elected for one-year terms. By the end of the transition period at the 2009 annual meeting, all members of the Company's Board of Directors shall be elected to serve one-year terms.