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Wave Dispersion Technologies News

26 Aug 2003

WhisprWave Deployed at

Wave Dispersion Technologies (WDT) announced today it has signed a contract for a 1500-foot floating breakwater for the Cyprermort Point State Park Beach Erosion Control Project in Cyprermort Point, LA. The modular breakwater will be connected to previously installed anchors. The WhisprWave , designed in a modular format to increase the product's flexibility and strength for maritime applications has a design and application allow it to withstand waves and sustained winds of up to 80 knots. The contract is between WDT and Coastal Construction and Engineering, with WDT providing the floating breakwater and expertise and Coastal providing the actual installation. WhisprWave® breakwater technology has wide ranging maritime applications from erosion control to homeland security.

29 Sep 2003

WDT Awarded Contract for SCIB

Wave Dispersion Technologies (WDT) announced today it has received a contract from the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the delivery of two WhisprWave® Small Craft Intrusion Barriers (SCIB) to be installed at Dams in separate Illinois’ lake locations. The SCIB is designed to demarcate the marine port and/or dam security zone and impede hostile small crafts from penetrating it. The SCIB's modular construction is engineered to allow its use as a platform to mount a multitude of security technologies including, warning signs, surface detection units, anti-intrusion instruments, fibre optic sensing systems, swimmer detection devices and capture nets both on the surface and underwater.

20 Jun 2006

Port to Purchase Intrusion Barriers

Tampa Bay Business Journal has reported that the Tampa Port Authority has received a $1.3 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security that will be used to purchase floating small craft intrusion barriers to protect security zones around critical infrastructure. Skip Volkle, legal counsel at shipper Maritrans, raised concerns about the barriers at Tuesday's board meeting, saying that no discussion had taken place with the Harbor Safety Committee. Wainio said the Port of Tampa would meet with the Harbor Safety Committee but that the impact of the devices to the maritime community was going to be minimal. At the close of the submittal period, one bid had been received from Siemens Building Technologies & Wave Dispersion Technologies Inc.

30 Jan 2006

WDT Sees Production Increase

Wave Dispersion Technologies (WDT) announced the company has doubled its production capacity due to increased global demand for the WhisprWave line of maritime barriers and buoys. The increased capacity was brought on line in early January 2006. The company recently announced several recent port security contracts in the US and globally and the expanded manufacturing production will ensure delivery and installation of the WhisprWave products.

26 Jan 2006

WDT Security Barriers, Buoys Installed at Army Reserve

Wave Dispersion Technologies (WDT) announced the recent delivery and installation of four Marine Security Sign Buoys and two hundred and eighty linear feet of WhisprWave Small Craft Intrusion Barrier (SCIB) for the US Army Reserve Facility at Mare Island, Vallejo, CA. The facility, located on the western edge of San Francisco Bay in Northern California previously received a similar sized barrier in 2004. This installation follows several recent port security contracts received by WDT including the Port of Jebel Ali, Dubai for the USN and Coast Guard Island, Alameda, CA for the USCG.

17 Jan 2006

Marine Barrier Installed at USCG ISC, Alameda

Wave Dispersion Technologies, Inc. has completed installation of the WhisprWave Small Craft Intrusion Barrier (SCIB) at U.S. Coast Guard Integrated Service Command at Alameda, CA. The patented floating marine barrier encloses a security zone of 2400 feet and incorporates two swinging gates of 725 feet and 825 feet to allow for movement of US Coast Guard Cutters into and out of the exclusion zone. The swinging gates pivot from WhisprWave's "Pivot Buoys" that are restricted to a specified watch circle so as to maintain a limited SCIB catenary. It prevents the barrier from impinging on the Federal channel and/or into the exclusion zone. Alameda is a city on a small island next to Oakland, California in the San Francisco Bay.

21 Dec 2005

Wave Dispersion Technologies Wins Contract

Wave Dispersion Technologies (WDT) received a purchase contract from Naval Security Forces for the Port of Jebel Ali, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for 300 feet of WhisprWave large floating wave attenuator (LFWA). The WhisprWave is specifically designed in a modular format to increase the product's flexibility and strength for maritime applications. WhisprWave is designed to withstand waves and sustained winds of more than 100 MPH. WhisprWave breakwater technology has many applications, from erosion control to homeland security.