Work platform

Details Work platform Work platform

1980-10-16

1983-05-31

Taylor, Dennis L.

Ships

Floating platform

Multiple leg

405195, 405208, B63B 3500

Patent

active

043855830

ABSTRACT:
A stable offshore platform for surface or undersea work is provided by connecting a semi-submersible trailer unit with a workboat. Preferably, two columns of the trailer are joined by a beam member or truss, and this assembly is linked to the workboat via a truss-like trailer tongue with a ball swivel joint. When in transit, the semi-submersible unit is deballasted to a shallow draft condition and towed by the workboat.

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"The Technology of Offshore Drilling, Completion and Production" by ETA Seminars, Inc., 1976, p. 14.
"Manned Submersibles" by R. Frank Busby, 1976, p. 611, Office of the Oceanographer of the U.S. Navy.

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