Tidewater to Present at the Pareto Securities’ 17th Annual Oil and Offshore Conference

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tidewater Inc. (NYSE: TDW) announced today that Dean E. Taylor, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Quinn P. Fanning, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Pareto Securities’ 17^th Annual Oil and Offshore Conference in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday, September 2, 2010, at approximately 10:10 a.m. local Oslo time. Upon completion of the presentation, the company will also file a Form 8-K with the SEC which will include a copy of the slides used by the presenter.

Tidewater Inc. owns 397 vessels, the world’s largest fleet of vessels serving the global offshore energy industry.