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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7900573 | Submarine escape suit A submarine escape suit includes an ascent stole (22) for assisting a wearer to ascent to the surface from a submarine. The suit also includes a life preserver stole (26) that can be inflated on reaching the surface, to provide the suit with additional... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7174844 | Simulator and method for performing underwater submarine escape training The simulator of the present invention comprises a submersible structure to be used in a body of water, for instance a pool. This structure comprises a bell defining a main chamber. An escape tower is provided over the bell. This escape tower defines an escape chamb... | 02/13/2007 |
| 6161495 | Power storage for marine seismic vessel A marine vessel having backup power storage in the event of primary power source failure. The invention applies to different marine vessels and is particularly suited to vessels used in marine seismic operations. A rotating mass energy storage provides st... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6003463 | Dual position personal watercraft lift A launch and retrieval system for a smaller watercraft comprising a cradle for a smaller watercraft, a first vertically oriented drive, a device for securing the cradle to the first drive for vertical movement for launch and retrieval of the watercraft, a... | 12/21/1999 |
| 4576105 | Rescue equipment for submarine vehicles The principal element of a rescue equipment for submarine vehicles includes a principal gas generator in which hydrazine is forced through a catalytic reactor causing the hydrazine to decompose and the developed gas is used to blow a ballast tank. The hyd... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4498878 | Safety diving backpack A safety diving backpack, specifically a one-piece, detachable diving backpack, that may serve to dispose water-resistant handlights, life buoys, kettles and spin reel, complete with wires or ropes in the hollow cylinder and in the spaces as provided on b... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4276851 | Underwater cruise device An underwater cruise device is disclosed which is mounted to a vessel by a vertical telescoping boom. The device includes a diving chair mounted to the vertical boom which can be selectively submerged during diving operations or completely withdrawn from ... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4215645 | Shock crush sub-foundation 1. A shock crush sub-foundation comprising a base, a frame member reinforcing said base, an equipment support member, and deformation absorbing means between said frame member and said equipment support member for absorbing plastic deformation of said bas... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4100871 | Rescue apparatus for submerged vessels Apparatus for raising submerged vessels including a ship having a dual hull section. A winch attached to cables threaded through support structures are provided on the dual hull section. Vessel support bars are mounted onto each the dual hulls and are ada... | 07/18/1978 |
| 3942456 | Rescue equipment for submarine vehicles A plurality of similarly constructed gas generators are disposed in the ballast tanks of a submarine vehicle, each generator decomposing hydrazine in an emergency gase for developing a particular amount of gas for blowing all or a part of a ballast tank. ... | 03/09/1976 |
