From: Etchemendy, Steve
Sent: Thursday, January 20,
2011 10:10 AM
To: 'Ron.Pickens@wellsfargo.com';
Zhang, Yanwu; Pinto, Mike
Cc: Dawe, Craig; Massion,
Gene
Subject: RE: MBARI--RE: Re:
Tongji Insurance problem and suggestions on solving the problem)--Can MBARI
provide any type of list/log of instruments by institution that have been
plugged into MARS?
Attachments: Copy of Connection
History.xls
Dear Ron,
A more complete list of deployments and recoveries on MARS is
attached.
|
Port |
Deploy |
|
Recover |
|
Project |
|
|
4 |
10/10/2008 |
|
1/7/2010 |
|
Sensor's
CTD |
|
|
1 |
12/9/2008 |
|
1/30/2009 |
|
FOCE |
Free-ocean
carbon dioxide enrichment experiment |
|
8 |
1/21/2009 |
|
4/2/2009 |
|
EITS |
ORCA's
Eye-in-the-Sea |
|
1 |
2/26/2009 |
|
2/11/2010 |
|
MOBB |
Monterey
Ocean Bottom Broadband seismometer |
|
7 |
2/27/2009 |
|
8/18/2010 |
|
DEIMOS |
Deep
Echo-Integrating Marine Observatory System |
|
8 |
4/13/2009 |
|
5/21/2009 |
|
EITS |
|
|
2 |
6/11/2009 |
|
6/21/2009 |
|
FOCE |
|
|
3 |
7/7/2009 |
|
8/11/2009 |
|
ROVER |
The
benthic rover is a mobile physiology lab |
|
8 |
8/14/2009 |
|
3/24/2010 |
|
EITS |
|
|
2 |
9/2/2009 |
|
11/25/2009 |
|
FOCE |
|
|
5 |
9/30/2009 |
|
10/30/2009 |
|
ESP |
Deep-Sea
Environmental Sample Processor |
|
3 |
10/1/2009 |
|
12/18/2009 |
|
ROVER |
|
|
5 |
12/14/2009 |
|
1/7/2010 |
|
ESP |
|
|
3 |
2/2/2010 |
|
10/1/2010 |
|
ACOMMS |
Acoustic
Communications System testing |
|
1 |
4/7/2010 |
|
6/29/2011 |
|
LOOKING |
The
Laboratory for the Ocean Observatory Knowledge INtegration Grid |
|
2 |
4/26/2010 |
|
5/24/2010 |
|
FOCE |
|
|
2 |
6/3/2010 |
|
11/30/2010 |
|
FOCE |
|
|
7 |
6/30/2010 |
|
6/28/2011 |
|
BPR/Tilt |
High-resolution
Bottom Pressure Recorder with high-resolution tiltmeter |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 |
10/4/2010 |
|
ongoing |
|
PHOBOS |
Photographic
Benthic Observing System |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6 |
3/14/2011 |
|
4/22/2011 |
|
Tongji
Experiment |
Test
of Long-Term Seafloor Observatory Instruments |
|
6 |
5/19/2011 |
|
11/22/2011 |
|
SES |
Sediment
Events Sensor |
|
3 |
6/20/2011 |
|
12/15/2011 |
|
ONR |
Seafloor
Microbial Fuel Cell Project |
|
8 |
9/29/2011 |
|
11/30/2011 |
|
Ghost
Buster |
In-Situ
Calibration: Enhanced Monitoring and Measurement of pH and Redox |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Items in red are planned |
|
|
|
|||
|
MOBB cable trawled |
|
|
|
|
||
Steve
Steve Etchemendy
Director, Marine Operations
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
(831) 775-1902
From: Ron.Pickens@wellsfargo.com
[mailto:Ron.Pickens@wellsfargo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:01 PM
To:
Cc:
Subject: RE: MBARI--RE: Re: Tongji Insurance problem and suggestions on
solving the problem)--Can MBARI provide any type of list/log of instruments by
institution that have been plugged into MARS?
Dear Yanwu,
Thank you very much for your thorough response to the three (3) itemized questions.
The second paragraph of my earlier email stated that "One thing that would make underwriters feel more comfortable with the risk, is a list/log of instruments that have been plugged in since it (MARS) was operational, preferably by institution so that Tongji's deployment will appear as an inconsequential risk in a long line of other university users."
If it's a big research burden to go back in time to when MARS was first operational or even to the 2008 fix, can MBARI generate any type of list by institution without too much labor?
Thanks,
Ron
From:
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:53 AM
To: Pickens, Ron; Etchemendy, Steve;
Cc:
Subject: Answers to Ron's three questions. (RE: MBARI--RE: Re: Tongji
Insurance problem and suggestions on solving the problem)
Dear Ron,
After checking with Tongji University and reviewed by MBARI’s Steve Etchemendy and Craig Dawe (who are in charge of the MARS Project), we answer your three questions as follows. We hope they are sufficient for your contacting potential insurers. If there’re any other questions, please let us know.
Tongji University expressed that they are very willing to accept a U.S. insurer you help find (certainly they hope the cost can be made as low as possible with your (our) help), and they hope the insurance hurdle can be overcome as soon as possible because the installation date in closing in.
Thank you very much for all the work and help. Look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Yanwu Zhang
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1) Descriptions and specs including power input and output of each piece of Tongji equipment to be attached;
Input voltage (provided from MARS to Tongji equipment): 375 volts
Total power consumption of Tongji equipment:
150 W (junction box) + 320 W (chemistry monitoring system) + 160 W (dynamic environment monitoring system)
= 630 W
2) Specs of node including in particular redundancies and other safety
features.
The shore station is protected by over-current circuitry which will shut down the power supply in the event the sea cable is damaged. The node itself is protected by software and hardware from over-current conditions and will shut down a given port if the attached instrument draws too much power. The circuitry is fairly robust and has proven reliable in its ability to protect the MARS node. The Ethernet connections are standard transformer coupled connections on a Cisco router. The routers driving these data ports are redundant and could be switched over in the event of a failure but it is bank switching, all ports get switched to the other data path.
3) Maximum duration of Tongji’s equipment on MARS.
Estimated worst-case damage scenario. Cost to retrieve node, repair it, and
redeploy it.
Maximum duration of Tongji’s equipment on MARS: 2 months.
The
worst-case scenario would be damage to the CTA (Cable Termination Assembly).
The CTA is spliced to the main telecom cable, which transits to shore from the
MARS node 890 meters deep in
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Yanwu ZHANG, Ph.D.
Senior Research Specialist
Research Division
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Moss
Phone: 831-775-2028 Fax: 831-775-1646 Room A120
http://www.mbari.org/staff/yzhang
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From:
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:35 PM
To: Etchemendy, Steve
Cc:
Subject: Fwd: MBARI--RE: Re: Tongji Insurance problem and suggestions on
solving the problem
Steve - here's what we need to get a quote for insurance on our side.
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
From: <Ron.Pickens@wellsfargo.com>
Date: January 13, 2011 9:50:51 PM PST
To: <pinto@mbari.org>
Subject: MBARI--RE: Re: Tongji Insurance problem and suggestions on solving the problem
Mike,
Everything is possible for a price. I'll have to check with insurers that
aren't currently insuring MBARI to avoid conflicts of interest. So that
eliminates 6 insurers, possibly a seventh, ACE, who we just left. ACE
declined to insure MARS for liability during its installation, and proposed
post installation coverage with several exclusions not on your existing
liability policy.
One thing that would make underwriters feel more comfortable with the risk, is
a list/log of instruments that have been plugged in since it was operational,
preferably by institution so that Tongji's deployment will appear as an
inconsequential risk in a long line of other university users.
Besides trying to sell the underwriters that the risk of damage is negligible
based on usage history, I will suggest that even if the node sustained physical
damage, It has been underwater for two years, and it would be practically
impossible for MBARI to prove that Tongji's instruments were the problem,
instead of some independent cause such as defective construction of the node,
wear and tear, corrosion, microbes, bacteria with sharp teeth, electric eels
;-).
Each underwriter approached will ask for one or more pieces of the following
data, so please forward it so I have it when asked.
1.) descriptions and specs including power input and output of each piece of
Tongji equipment to be attached;
2.) specs of node including in particular redundancies and other safety
features.
3.) Estimated worst case damage scenario. Cost to retrieve node, repair
it, and redeploy it.
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: pinto@mbari.org [mailto:pinto@mbari.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 7:49 PM
To: Pickens, Ron
Subject: FWD: Re: Insurance problem and suggestions on solving the problem
Ron
What are the possibilities of us buying insurance to cover our risk for
the month?
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Sent from my Verizon Wireless mobile phone
------Original Message------
From: Dr. Huaiyang Zhou <zhouhy@tongji.edu.cn>
To: "
Cc: "Etchemendy, Steve" <etst@mbari.org>,"
Date: Fri, Jan 14, 11:06 AM +0800
Subject: Re: Insurance problem and suggestions on solving the problem
Dear Yanwu,
many thanks to your explanation and helps!
I would like to say that both of your proposed options are acceptable in our
side. Because of only very short time before our proposed test on MARS in this
Feb-March, it would be greatly appreciated if MBARI people could ask your
insurance to find a company to take this business for us. That is, we would
like to start the option 2 asap.
Meanwhile, we will also contact Chubb
Best regards,
Huaiyang
2011-01-14
Dr. Huaiyang Zhou
发件人：
发送时间： 2011-01-13 08:30:15
收件人： Dr. Huaiyang ZHOU; pxwang@tongji.edu.cn
抄送： Etchemendy, Steve;
主题： Insurance problem and suggestions on solving the
problem
Dear Prof. Zhou,
MBARI’s Director of Marine Operations Mr. Steve
Etchemendy and MBARI’s CFO Mr. Mike Pinto held detailed
discussions with MBARI’s insurance agent. The
conclusion is: Chubb (
We propose two options for solving this problem:
Option 1: Can you use Chubb (USA), not Chubb (
Option 2: MBARI’s insurance agent helps Tongji find a
Please let us know your opinion. We at MBARI are doing our best to help solve
this problem. Please feel free to call me if you have any question.
Best regards,
Yanwu (张燕武)
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Yanwu ZHANG, Ph.D.
Senior Research Specialist
Research Division
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute 7700 Sandholdt Road Moss
Phone: 831-775-2028 Fax: 831-775-1646 Room A120
http://www.mbari.org/staff/yzhang
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Michael Pinto, CFO
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Moss
831 775-1776
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