Professor Milgram designed, deployed, monitored, and analyzed the results of the instrumentation on this system, and used the results to aid in planning well control.

Pictured is the Oil Tanker ALVENUS which grounded and suffered catastrophic main ship girder failure in the Calcasieu Channel in Louisiana.

Professor Milgram was a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice since the many resulting lawsuits included some against the U.S. Government for alleged insufficient maintenance of the channel. Professor Milgram was able to show that the channel maintenance was correct and the damage resulted from excessive ship draft, excessive ship speed and an inadequate ship structure. As a result, the U. S. govenrment was exhonerated from wrongdoing by the court.

CONSULTING ACTIVITIES (Partial List)

• Aluminum Company of America; Analysis and reduction of detrimental waves that
  occur in Hall cells used for aluminum production.
 
• American Original Corp.; New technology for harvesting shellfish from the sea.
 
• Bingham, Dana and Gould, attorneys; investigator and expert witness for marine
  accidents related to ship maneuvering and ship wave generation.
 
• Cabot Corporation; the hydrodynamics of surface coatings for ships and marine
  structures.
 
• Conoco Norway, Inc.; Predicting forces from gas blowout plumes on tension-leg
  platforms.
 
• DeCof and Grimm, Attorneys; Evaluation of design and construction of a transoceanic
  sailing vessel which suffered structural failure.
 
• EG&G, Inc.; Offshore gas well hydrodynamics, and the hydrodynamics of disposing
  waste, offshore-well gas into the sea.
 
• Exxon Production Research Company; Methods for evaluating oil pollution control
  barriers.
 
• Hoch and Flanagan, Proctors in Admiralty; Naval Architecture and Marine Hydrodynamics
  of the Sinking of the Drillship Glomar Java Sea.
 
• Honeywell, Inc.; motions of oceanographic instruments in waves and currents.
 
• Horizon Marine Enterprises, Inc.; computer-aided design and construction of sails.
 
• Huyck, Inc; hydrodynamic analysis of paper making machines.
 
• Johns-Manville, Inc.; principal designer of the U.S. Coast Guard High Seas Oil
  Containement Barrier.
 
• Kennecott Exploration, Inc.; deep ocean mining, collection, transfer, and transportation
  of seabed minerals.
 
• Krusen, Evans and Byrne, Attorneys; Expert witness services on ship maneuvering
  while using radar.
 
• Kydd and Handy, Proctors in Admiralty; Expert witness on mooring and anchoring.
 
• Lamport Sail Fabric, Ltd.; methods for laboratory testing of textiles and the physical
  chemistry of textile production.
 
• Arthur D. Little, Inc.; theory for dispersing oil slicks at sea.
 
• Looney and Grossman, Attorneys at Law; investigation of the effects of ship layout
  and design upon the handling of docklines.
 
• Mobil Oil (through legal representative); Naval architectural investigation of circumstances
  surrounding the sinking of the semi-submersible drilling rig, OCEAN
  RANGER.
 
• New York State, Attorney General’s Office; advisor and expert witness on oil spill
  prevention and control.
 
• New Zealand America’s Cup Challenge; Evaluation of potential sailing speeds of
  single and multi-hulled sailing craft through use of Velocity Prediction Computer
  Programs.
 
• Northrup Corporation; motions of towed bodies in waves and currents. 
 
• Offshore Devices, Inc.; design of fiberglass and aluminum work boats, conversion of
  commercial fishing vessels to oil collection vessels, and refinement and production
  of U.S. Coast Guard High Seas oil pollution cleanup equipment.
 
• Patterson Kitz, Barristers and Solicitors; speed and maneuvering characteristics on
  a motor vessel involved in a marine casualty.
 
• Phelps Dunbar, Counsellors at Law; investigation of collison between a Panama
  Canal Tug and a surfaced submarine.
 
• Ravcon Corporation; Organization, data analysis and performance prediction associated
  with a large scale sailing vessel model test program involving approximately
  40 models, each about 23 feet long.
 
• Supervisor of Salvage, U. S. Navy; on dynamics and improvements in safety and
  reliability of towlines and towing procedures.
 
• Searle Consortium, Ltd.; Quantatative calculations for anchoring and mooring related
  to marine casualties.
 
• Simplex Wire and Cable Company, Hydrospace Division; ocean engineering of undersea
  power cables and pipelines.
 
• State of Maine, Attorney General’s Office; expert witness on containing and removing
  spilled oil.
 
• United States Coast Guard; evaluating oil pollution control barriers.
 
• U.S. Department of Justice; Investigator and expert witness for ship grounding and
  structural failure.
 
• J.H. Westerbeke Corporation; navigational instruments and marine evaporators.
 
• The Diddel Law Firm; investigation of the capsize and sinking of the drill ship,
  Seacrest.
 
• Whittaker Corp.; The maneuverability and safety of vessels built by their Trojan
  Yachts Division, related to a marine casualty.
 
• Lake Charles Pilots Association and K. M. Wright, attorney; on the behavior of
  pilot boats in rough seas.
 
• Government of Canada; in formulating and explaining salvage plan for recovery the
  sunken pollution laden barge, Irving Whale.
 
• AC2003, the Swiss America’s Cup Team led by Mr. Ernesto Bertarelli.
 
• Marvin Barish Law Offices - Investigation and expert testimpony on capsize of
  fishing trawler with loss of life.
 
• Davis, White & Pettingell Law Offices - Investigation of maneuvering of tugboats
  in currents, breach of hull of Oil Tank Ship and resulting oil spill.