Ships – Floating or semi-submersible storage vessel
Patent
1995-10-06
1997-08-19
Avila, Stephen
Ships
Floating or semi-submersible storage vessel
114242, B65D 8878
Patent
active
056577141
ABSTRACT:
The method of moving fresh water via the sea, that includes providing a bag to float in the sea, and filling fresh water into the bag at a fill location; towing the bag in the sea, to a fresh water removal location; providing an apparatus floating in the sea at the location and having a sump, and transferring fresh water from the bag to the sump; providing a floating fresh water transfer duct to extend from the location to a water-receiving point, and transferring fresh water from the sump to the water-receiving point by flowing the fresh water through the floating transfer duct; and towing the bag from which fresh water has been transferred away from the water removal location for reuse as by fresh water refilling into the bag.
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Hsia Chih-Hung
Hsia Chih-Yu
Avila Stephen
Haefliger William W.
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