Harrisburg PA veteran joins INEX, Carlyle tollman dives - PERSONNEL

INEX Technologies the video tollers headquartered in Knoxville TN have announced that Louis R Martin, a former executive director of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is joining their board of directors. Martin is trained in both mechanical engineering (U Pittsburgh) and law (Duquesne) but has been practicing law since he stepped down from the Turnpike in August 1991.

Martin was also a director of IBTTA for some years.

Jim Kennedy, president of INEX says Martin's "experience and depth of knowledge in tolling will be invaluable."

Carlyle dive

Former Nossman, now Carlyle Group tolling VP Brian Chase recently got himself coverage in the New York Times, but not for his day job. A lover of wrecks Chase is shown with a Times reporter diving to the wreck of the USS Oriskany, the aircraft carrier from which pilot John McCain launched onto his ill-fated mission over North Vietnam nearly 40 years ago.

The Oriskany, at the end of its useful life as an aircraft carrier was deliberately scuttled two years ago off the coast of Pensacola Florida to form an artificial reef.

Chase and his fellow diver used nitrogen oxide to combat the bends. They descended 42m (137ft) to the flight deck. Chase dived with Erik Olsen, a science reporter, who took the photographs.

Chase did briefly move inside the superstructure but he says he's "not good enough of a wreck diver to enter the maze of corridors below deck."

A caption to a slide in the New York Times says this is Chase swimming near the Oriskany's control tower.

The wreck has already attracted a vast array of sea life including huge barracuda.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/science/earth/19ship.html

TOLLROADSnews 2008-08-19