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Gary
C Teear, Director, BE Hons (Civil), M Com Hons (Economics),
MIPENZ, Registered Engineer.
Diver
Training
- Air, RNZN Diving School, Auckland - Mixed gas and saturation
at the Underwater Training Centre, Fort William (Scotland)
NZ Department of Labour registered Safety Supervisor Construction
Blaster and Diver.
In 1975
he was the diving officer in command of the Army Diving team
on underwater blasting work associated with the development
of a new harbour at Atiu Island in the Cook Islands.
In 1976
he joined R W Morris and Associates Consulting Engineers Limited
as project engineer on several submarine pipeline projects
including the installation of a sand slurry pipeline and a
single point mooring buoy. He also carried out the site investigation
and hydraulic model studies for a new harbour at Tarakohe,
New Zealand.
In 1989
he worked in Indonesia for Komaritim the local COMEX group
company on the TATUN project.
Since
returning to New Zealand in 1989 he has been engaged on a
range of engineering projects including computer analysis
of wharf structures and on the development of an offshore
loading concept for West Coast coal. Other projects include
theoretical analysis of subsea pipeline freespan conditions,
underwater inspection and blasting, site investigation and
wave climate studies, resource consent work for coastal projects
and a survey of coral atoll navigation channels in Tuvalu.
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Gary
Teear
Gary
Teear was employed in 1971 by the Lyttelton Harbour Board
as a harbour engineer working on the computer analysis and
design of concrete wharfs, piled structures and retaining
walls. He also carried out sedimentation and wave refraction
studies in the harbour presenting a paper on this work in
1975.
In
1977 Gary Teear joined the French subsea contractor COMEX
and thereafter worked worldwide as project engineer/manager
with the associate companies of the group in the Far East,
Middle East, Gulf of Mexico and North Sea regions up until
October 1989 when he returned to this practice. As engineering
manager for COMEX Norway then Aker COMEX in Norway from
1983 to 1988 he was responsible for the engineering work
carried out by the engineering department of the company.
This work included both diver assisted and diverless construction/installation
work, deflect to connection of CDTM pipelines, platform
repair, equipment development, hyperbaric welding, explosive
cutting trials, vessel motion studies, cable lay and technical
support for the operations of the company DSV (Diving Support
Vessel) encompassing all aspects of subsea construction.
He
has maintained contact with Comex, now Stolt Comex Seaway
(SCS), and has worked on the engineering of several major
projects for SCS in the North Sea and South America. Much
of this work has been carried out in OCEL's Christchurch
office and the drawings and calculations sent via the internet.
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