Newport Yachting Center News

The McMurdo range of Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs), Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) MOB devices will be on display in booth D92 at the 2014 Newport International Boat Show, September 11-14 at the Newport Yachting Center in Newport, Rhode Island. The compact McMurdo Smartfind Plus G5 GPS EPIRB features a high performance, multi-channel GPS which brings the location accuracy down to typically less than 62 meters, greatly increasing the chances of rescue in an emergency situation.

OceanTech Expo (OTE) 2010 opened the morning of Tuesday, May 25, 2010 in Newport, Rhode Island, with John Westwood, chairman of Douglas-Westwood delivering a powerful keynote speech detailing the tremendous opportunities, and challenges, surrounding the rapidly expanding ocean business. London-based Douglas-Westwood is one of the world’s leading authorities in the research, analysis and forecasting in more than 25 different marine sectors, including offshore oil and gas, ocean observation and the subsea vehicles market. “At the end of the day, the U.S. is the largest ocean industry market,” Westwood said. Westwood’s 45 minutes presentation kept the attention of the OTE delegation…