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Related Parties Transactions

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

7.	RELATED PARTIES TRANSACTIONS

Net revenues and accounts receivable – related parties – The Company sells products to Brownie’s Southport Divers, Inc., Brownie’s Palm Beach Divers, and Brownie’s Yacht Toys, owned by the brother of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Terms of sale are no more favorable than those extended to any of the Company’s other customers with similar sales volume. Combined net revenues from these entities for three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, was $220,363 and $234,368, respectively. Combined net revenues from these entities for nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, was $582,683 and $567,196 respectively. Accounts receivable from Brownie’s Southport Diver’s, Inc., Brownie’s Palm Beach Divers, and Brownie’s Yacht Toys totaled $51,700 at September 30, 2017 and $58,420, at December 31, 2016,

The Company sells products to Brownie’s Global Logistics, LLC. (“BGL”), 3D Buoy and 940 Associates, Inc., affiliated with the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Terms of sale are more favorable than those extended to BWMG’s regular customers, but no more favorable than those extended to Brownie’s strategic partners. Terms of sale to BGL approximate cost or include a nominal margin. These terms are consistent with those extended to Brownie’s strategic partners. Strategic partner terms on a per order basis include promotion of BWMG’s technologies and “Brownie’s” brand, offered only on product or services not offered for resale, and must provide for reciprocal terms or arrangements to BWMG on strategic partners’ product or services. BGL is fulfilling the strategic partner terms by providing exposure for BWMG’s technologies and “Brownie’s” brand in the yachting and exploration community world-wide through its operations. Combined net revenues from these entities for three months ended September 30, 2017, and 2016, were $223 and $5,734, respectively. Combined net revenues from these entities for nine months ended September 30, 2017, and 2016, were $3,289 and $7,666, respectively. Accounts receivable from these three entities at September 30, 2016 was $2,146. Accounts receivable from BGL, 3D Buoy and 940 Associates, Inc. at September 30, 2017 was $3,289, respectively. Accounts receivable from BGL, 3D Buoy and 940 Associates, Inc. at December 31, 2016 was $9,819.

Royalties expense – related parties – The Company has an Exclusive License Agreement with 940 Associates, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “940A”), an entity owned by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, to license the trademark “Brownies Third Lung”, “Tankfill”, “Brownies Public Safety” and various other related trademarks as listed in the agreement. This license agreement calls for the Company to pay 940A 2.5% of gross revenues per quarter. Total royalty expense for the above agreements for the three months and ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, is disclosed on the face of the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations totaled $12,761 and $20,714, respectively, and for the nine months and ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 totaled $42,247 and $46,332, respectively. In November 2016, the Company entered into a conversion agreement under which the Company issued 10,000,000 shares of restricted common stock in satisfaction of $88,850 past due and payable to 940A. As of the date of the conversion agreement, the Company was more than 31 months in arrears on its royalty payments totaling approximately $151,000. In addition, 940A agreed to forebear on any default under the License Agreement due to the Company’s remaining past due amount for a period of three months from the effective date of the conversion agreement. The shares issued were valued at $0.008885 per share, the closing price of the stock on the effective date of the conversion agreement. No default notice had been received prior to the conversion agreement.

On March 1, 2017, the Company and 940A entered into a second conversion agreement. Under the agreement the Company issued 940A 4,587,190 shares of restricted common stock in satisfaction of $63,303, which represented all past due and payable amounts to 940A under the Exclusive License Agreement as of March 1, 2017. As of the date of the agreement the Company was more than 3 months in arrears on royalty payments due under the Exclusive License Agreement. The shares were issued at a price per share of $0.0138, which exceeded the closing price of the Company’s common stock as reported on the OTC Markets on the date immediately preceding the closing.

Stock options outstanding from patent purchase – Effective March 3, 2009, the Company entered into a Patent Purchase Agreement with Robert M. Carmichael, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The Company purchased several patents it had previously been paying royalties on and several related unissued patents. In exchange for the Intellectual Property (“IP), the Company issued Mr. Carmichael 234 stock options at a $1,350 exercise price expiring ten years from the effective date of grant, or March 2, 2019. None of the options have been exercised to-date.