Hollinger Joins Deep Down Board Member

Deep Down, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DPDW), an oilfield services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services, announced that Mark R. Hollinger has joined its Board of Directors, effective April 12, 2010.

Hollinger has joined the board as an independent director and was appointed Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. Hollinger is currently President of Offshore Solutions at MacDermid, Inc., which provides specialty fluids to hydraulic controls of valves in the offshore drilling and production systems, a position he has held since September 2007. Prior to MacDermid, Hollinger served as President of Merix Corp, a holding company of Merix Asia (formerly, Eastern Pacific Circuits Limited) from May 1999 to January 2007 and Chief Executive Officer from September 1999 to January 2007.