PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 9, 2012

Salty Southeast Cruisers Net, SURVICE Engineering and EarthNC Form Tri-Partnership to Bring Revolutionary Sounding Data to the Cruising Community!

The Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net (SSECN), SURVICE Engineering, and EarthNC, Inc. announce an exciting new tri-partnership that will provide SSECN users with the benefit of 25 million soundings acquired and processed with the ARGUS (Autonomous Remote Global Underwater Surveillance) system. The Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net (http://www.CruisersNet.net) is the FIRST web site to offer easy access to ARGUS data.

Effective immediately, users of the SSECN’s `Chart View’ pages can click a simple checkbox, thereby opening a new ARGUS layer, set over up-to-date images of the NOAA nautical charts. Once selected, the ARGUS layer will display color coded markers which depict the tide corrected solution of soundings gathered by ARGUS cooperative research vessels. This new SSECN tool will be continuously updated as new ARGUS data is received. It will provide the Southeastern USA cruising community with yet another valuable resource to help make mariner’s time on the water a safer and more enjoyable experience.

SSECN has worked closely with ARGUS project manager, John Hersey, and EarthNC co-founder, Virgil Zetterlind, to integrate ARGUS data into the SSECN’s EarthNC powered `Chart View’ pages. Plans are also underway to include ARGUS’s sounding data as a layer in EarthNC’s Marine Charts & Weather iPhone app in a future update.

Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net co-founder and Editorial Director, Claiborne S. Young, comments:
`We could not have brought this new, exciting resource to the cruising community without the tireless work and cooperation of EarthNC and SURVICE Engineering. The sole impetus for all three of our companies was to make the valuable data gathered by the ARGUS project available to the cruising community in a simple, easy to use and understand format. Working together, we believe that goal has been achieved!’

John Hersey, ARGUS Project Manager, adds:
`SSECN readers are the ideal audience for ARGUS solutions, and we’re very excited about this opportunity to provide added value for under-surveyed waterways such as the ICW to those who can most benefit from it. With the power of EarthNC and the SSECN focus on providing what matters to the cruiser, this partnership represents a major step in the progression of cooperative surveying. The combined expertise will add to the continued development of outputs that will endlessly improve the benefit for recreational boaters. We also look forward to input from SSECN readers in the form of soundings, feedback, and local knowledge to make the solutions even better.’

EarthNC’s Zetterlind adds: “The ARGUS soundings data, supported by SSECN, is an important and innovative approach to surveying that compliments traditional navigational data sources. It has huge potential for our customers and is a natural fit for both our web-based and mobile offerings.”

Press Contacts/Company Profiles:

Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net Media Contact Claiborne S. Young
Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net, LLC
P. O. Box 67
Elon, NC 27244*0067
336.266.1369
CruisersNet@triad.twcbc.com
http://www.CruisersNet.net

About Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net:

The Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net is one of the most trusted names in Southeastern cruising information. Its web site is a resource for mariners providing cruising news, navigation alerts and notices to mariners, along with information about marinas, fuel prices, anchorages, bridges, charts and weather. For more information, call 336.266.1369 or visit http://www.cruisersnet.net.

SURVICE Engineering Media Contact
John Hersey
SURVICE Engineering
4695 Millennium Drive
Belcamp, MD 21017
410-297-2378
John.Hersey@survice.com
http://argus.survice.com/

About ARGUS:
ARGUS was originally developed by SURVICE Engineering as a means to autonomously acquire and process bathymetric and other environmental data using vessels of opportunity as mobile sensor platforms. The goal of the program from the maritime navigation perspective is to supplement Federal efforts by providing not only much needed insight into the conditions of remote waterways, but also by providing continuous updates for those areas well traveled. SURVICE has worked with several dozen recreational and commercial boaters over the past four years to further the development and utility of ARGUS.

EarthNC, Media Contact
Brad Winney
EarthNC, Inc.
1515 N Swinton Ave
Delray Beach, FL 33444
347.837.2200
bwinney@earthnc.com
http://www.earthnc.com

About EarthNC, Inc.
EarthNCâ„¢, based in Delray Beach, Florida, develops mobile marine navigation applications for iOS and Android platforms for consumers, companies, government agencies and non-profit organizations. For more information, please go to http://www.earthnc.com.