09/10/08 - Deep Down Announces SDB System Orders for $1 Million


HOUSTON, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Deep Down, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DPDW - News) today announced orders for its patent pending SDB (Subsea Deployment Basket) systems totaling $1,000,000. These systems will be used to install hydraulic steel tube flying leads offshore West Africa and to install flexible pipe gas lift jumpers offshore Brazil. These systems are expected to be delivered in October of this year.

Deep Down's patent pending SDB System utilizes a unique mudmat and cartridge layout that allows for installation of hydraulic flying leads, electric flying leads, gas lift jumpers and other subsea equipment from the seabed, thereby eliminating the need for expensive, surface-based installation equipment. The SDB System is particularly attractive for installations in remote locations where vessel availability may be limited or in cases where there are multiple flying leads or jumpers to install. For more information on the SDB System and its ability to provide efficient, cost-saving installation methodologies, please contact Steve Pahls at 281-862-2201.


About Deep Down, Inc.

Deep Down specializes in the provision of innovative solutions, installation management, engineering services, support services, custom fabrication and storage management services for the offshore subsea control, umbilical, and pipeline industries. The company fabricates component parts of subsea distribution systems and assemblies that specialize in the development of subsea fields and tie backs. These items include umbilicals, flow lines, distribution systems, pipeline terminations, controls, winches, and launch and recovery systems, among others. Deep Down provides these services from the initial field conception phase, through manufacturing, site integration testing, installation, topside connections, and the final commissioning of a project. For further company information, please visit http://www.deepdowninc.com or call Ron Smith at 281-862-2201.

The Company's ElectroWave USA subsidiary offers products and services in the fields of electronic monitoring and control systems for the energy, military, and commercial business sectors. ElectroWave designs, manufactures, installs, and commissions integrated PLC and SCADA based instrumentation and control systems, including ballast control and monitoring, drilling instrumentation, vessel management systems, marine advisory systems, machinery plant control and monitoring systems, and closed circuit television systems. For further company information, please visit http://www.electrowaveusa.com or call Greg Boucher at 713-896-7799.

The Company's Mako Technologies subsidiary serves the growing offshore petroleum and marine industries with technical support services, and products vital to offshore petroleum production, through rentals of its remotely operated vehicles (ROV), topside and subsea equipment, and diving support systems used in diving operations, maintenance and repair operations, offshore construction, and environmental/marine surveys. For further company information, please visit http://www.makotechnologies.com or call Jacob Marcell at 985-385-7817.

Flotation Technologies engineers, designs and manufactures deepwater buoyancy systems using high-strength Flotec(TM) syntactic foam and polyurethane elastomers. Flotation's product offerings include distributed buoyancy for flexible pipes and umbilicals, drilling riser buoyance modules, CoreTec(TM) drilling riser buoyancy modules, ROVits(TM) buoyancy, Hydro-Float mooring buoys, Stablemoor(TM) low-drag ADCP deployment solution, Quick-Loc(TM) cable floats, Hardball(TM) umbilical floats, Flotec(TM) cable and pipeline protection, Inflex(TM) polymer bend restrictors, and installation buoyancy of any size and depth rating. For further company information, please visit http://www.flotec.com or call David Capotosto at 207-282-7749.

The Company's strategy is to become a leading provider of products and services to the offshore industry, including shallow, deep, and ultra-deep water applications in oil and gas exploration, development and production activities, and maritime operations. Management plans to achieve this strategy through organic growth and strategic acquisitions of complementary businesses with technological advantages in deepwater environments.

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