****I am no expert on this( probably few in the world) but if the Aux and Bulk cutting machines do thier job and the collector performs well underwater than I think the pumps, riser and lifter pieces will be the easier part, these wet testings will generate a lot of interest in all of the mining world not to mention the big fish we have interested from the Lowes Corp group. Obviously the Diamond Off Shore Drilling division is the only reason Loews bought in.
http://www.diamondoffshore.com/
I'm also confident that thier is a vast amount of Intellectual Property involved in all of these last 10 years of R&D.
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