Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus – Passenger enclosing bouyancy device
Patent
1987-12-15
1989-04-18
Basinger, Sherman D.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Passenger enclosing bouyancy device
114365, 114349, B63B 2328
Patent
active
048223115
ABSTRACT:
A free fall, submersible life saving device for an offshore structure has a spherical pressure shell in a casing. The upper part of the device has a lifting frame and at least one manhole closed with a cover and the lower part has ballast, an anchor, and a windlass 5 for the anchor rope having automatic control of the tension in the anchor rope. The device is launched by a catapult on the offshore structure for horizontal movement in free fall to the water surface, where it submerges and is anchored until resurfacing, by release of the anchor, for rescue.
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Doerffer Jerzy W.
Klopocki Jan
Niepieklo Andrzej
Rowinski Lech
Siwek Boguslaw
Basinger Sherman D.
Politechnika Gdanska
Salmon Paul E.
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