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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4000713 | Combined mooring and transfer means for oil and other liquid A combined mooring and transfer system for oil and other liquid to a ship from an off-shore installation which rests on the sea bed and extends above sea level, comprising a floating transfer hose from the part above sea level and a mooring hawser from th... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3971328 | Emergency mooring release A system for emergency release of a ship from its mooring cables is disclosed wherein pressurized actuating fluid stored in accumulators may be selectively released to actuate fluid powered cutters to sever the mooring cables. In its preferred form the sy... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3970156 | Water weighted corer A water-weighted corer comprising a cylindrical tank mounted concentrically n a core barrel intermediate the coring tube and the shackle is provided. The tank has a water inlet at its bottom and an air vent at its top so that during descent water enters th... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3968579 | Apparatus for sediment dredging and ocean mineral gathering An underwater mining or dredging apparatus having a supporting vessel and a continuous loop to which is attached a number of containers. In one embodiment, the loop is hollow and has a ballasted fluid in a lower portion while the descending portion is buo... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3967572 | Anchoring system and chain stopper therefor Disclosed is a chain stopper including a pair of side-by-side support plates pivotally connected to hanger plates which support the chain stopper from the vessel's structure. The support plates releasably engage about the anchor chain to support the ancho... | 07/06/1976 |
| 3961592 | Quick release A quick release device for a line to be subjected to tension, and a method for using the device wherein a remotely generated control signal is received by a control signal receiver which acts to detonate an explosive charge thereby to open, remotely, a te... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3955521 | Tension leg platform with quick release mechanism A tension leg marine structure in which a buoyant vessel is maintained in a partially submerged condition by a plurality of hold-down cables. Each cable is fastened to the floating portion of the structure by a quick disconnect coupling which is adapted t... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3949441 | Shallow water moored buoy A shallow water moored buoy having an anchor retaining mechanism on a bot deck which automatically releases an anchor when the buoy strikes water. The buoy is filled with floatation material which encloses electronic and battery packages and has an anten... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3935829 | Anchoring system for a floating offshore drilling vessel An anchoring system for a floating drilling vessel or the like comprises a wire rope having one end attached to an anchor and the other end secured to the drilling vessel. The secured end has attached thereto a floating tag line with a length greater than... | 02/03/1976 |
| 3931782 | Mooring method for deployment and retrieving of mooring lines This invention relates to a mooring method and system and includes a process of deploying and retrieving anchors, each anchor being attached by a long mooring line to a floating moored structure. For deploying an anchor at the end of a very long mooring line, ... | 01/13/1976 |
