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120 121 welding. In fact, Phoenix considers itself the premier provider of underwater welding services,worldwide. They have 43 underwater welding procedures, certi- fied by either a third-party classification society like the American Bureau of Shipping, or Lloyd’s Register, or the U.S.Navy.They also employ some of the best underwater welders in theworld. “To be an excellent underwater welder,you have to do a lot of it. So,if one of our welder-divers hasn’t been on a U.S.Navyproject or offshore doing underwater weld- ing for an oil and gas client for a specificperiod of time, wewill put them in our test tankand theywill weld.We will examine thosewelds and third parties will come in and performnondestructive testing and,depending on the time interval,possiblydestructive testing of the practicewelds.So our welder-divers never stop im- proving their skills.” Keenan says that Phoenix also works with marine salvage companies: “After a ship runs aground or suffers a collision a salvage company will perform the initial response. But the salvors may need some specific underwater repair accomplished prior to Super Welding of Southern California, Inc. www.SuperWeldingofSoCal.com 609 Anita Street, Chula Vista, CA 91911 Office: (619) 239-8003 | Cell: (619) 971-7855 Fax: (619) 271-2201 | www.superweldingofsocal.com Super Welding of Southern California provides superior welding and fabrication to San Diego and the outlying area with over 30 years of Commercial and Military welding experience. Our goal is to serve the maritime, commercial and industrial sectors with high quality, on-time welding and fabrication services. Industries Served: Naval Ship Repairs • Marine Repairs Fishing Fleets • Hospital Commercial Industries • MTS UnitedSchool Districts • CustomLogos Capabilites: Water Jet Cutting Welding CNC Press Break CNC Sheer & Machine PHOENIX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, INC. PREFERRED VENDOR n Super Welding of Southern CA www.superweldingofsocal.com Established in 1978, Super Welding of Southern California provides superior welding and fabrication to San Diego and the outlying area. The company serves the maritime, commercial, and industrial sectors with high quality, on-time welding and fabrication services. moving the stricken vessel to a port for dry-docking, and salvage companies hire Phoenix to con- duct these repairs.We have seen instances where a ship has backed into something or ingested an ob- ject into a thruster tunnel,and then there is a stern tube seal leakor a damaged thruster and we can solve those problems waterborne. So,we have a long-term relationship with commercial salvage companies. We are very happy with that rela- tionship and want to maintain it. In fact we are working in Asia for a multinational salvage company at this moment.” Keenan reports that the mix of government and commercial contracts keeps the companyvery busy,and that its excellent work drives repeat business: “We have a very strong reputation with the U.S.Navy; we hold contracts for underwater ship repair, subma- rine rescue, and undersea ops.We maintain those contracts by con- stantly performing well and also improving our technology and our training as we execute.But we also want to expand into the commercial realm,both intheoil andgasandship repair service lines.So,I thinkinthe future,wewould like tomaintainour verystrongU.S.Navyclientbase,but wewill haveexpanded and have a larger portion of our revenue coming in fromcommercial clients.”