Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Patent
1991-02-28
1992-11-03
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
182142, B63C 900
Patent
active
051602865
ABSTRACT:
A personnel transfer apparatus is provided herein. It includes a rigid but open personnel transfer chamber provided with a buoyant support for persons in water and is suitable for personnel transfer or for personnel evacuation and rescue. The apparatus includes a deck, a buoyant, shock-absorbing base supporting the deck, and a plurality of padded peripheral posts upstanding from the deck. These posts are used for lifting purposes. One of the posts is a central floatation, padded post. Such post is not to be used for lifting purposes. The posts provide a cage for surrounding personnel on the deck. The deck and the shock-absorbing base have sufficient buoyancy to support the whole chamber and deck in the water with the deck disposed slightly below the water level. A roof is supported by the posts and supporting wire ropes are associated with the roof at the region of each of the peripheral posts for suspending the device with several persons thereon by wire ropes which are connected to the second vessel from which personnel are to be transferred. The base of the personnel transfer chamber is connected to a tag line, which, in turn, is connected to a tugger line to be wound on a winch mounted on the deck of the second vessel.
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Lambert Dennis H.
Sotelo Jesus D.
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