Submersible vehicle deployment and recovery system for rough wat

Details Submersible vehicle deployment and recovery system for rough wat Submersible vehicle deployment and recovery system for rough wat

1978-04-21

1979-08-28

Sotelo, Jesus D.

Ships

Mother ship, floating landing platform, and harbor

114 48, 405185, B63B 3544

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041657063

ABSTRACT:
A heavy submersible object is deployed from or retrieved to a floating vessel in rough water. The connection or release point is sufficiently far below the water surface that surface waves have little if any effect on the object. Deployment and retrieval are made to an arm which depends from the vessel and which has a variable stiffness connection, ranging from free-swinging to rigid, to the vessel. Deployment and retrieval are made with the arm free-swinging from the vessel so the arm has no motion due to pitch or roll of the vessel. In retrieval, the connection is progressively stiffened to rigid after the object has been connected to the arm, and the arm is then raised with the retrieved object.

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patent: 3507241 (1970-04-01), Southerland et al.
patent: 3641961 (1972-02-01), Howard
patent: 3894640 (1975-07-01), Crooke et al.

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