Nautilus Minerals Inc. announced that Factory Acceptance Testing of the Riser Tooling and the Subsea Pull-in Skids, was successfully completed this week in Poland and the USA respectively. The riser tooling, which was designed by GMC in Houston, is a key piece of equipment that will be used for handling and coupling the 19 meter riser joints together for deployment. It was manufactured and underwent successful FAT in Poland. The ridged riser system is an integral part of the Nautilus seafloor recovery system. It allows the mineralized material to be transferred from the seafloor up onto the Production Support Vessel without any interaction between the different water layers within the ocean, resulting in a very small environmental footprint.