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US 2010/0300346 A1Published application
Watercraft Immobilizing System
AssigneeRichard J. A. Gayton
InventorRichard J.A. Gayton
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AssigneeRichard J. A. Gayton
InventorRichard J.A. Gayton
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A sub-surface watercraft immobilizing system and method which may be deployed from any vessel to provide primary passive defense against one or more attacking watercraft(s), fitted with marine engine(s). The system is designed to provide practical all round coverage and consists of a sub-surface towed array/entanglement system of wires and/or spectra/nylon lines weighted for neutral buoyancy, deployed from removable/replaceable cartridges that may be disposable or refurbished. The towed array/entanglement system uses outriggers, weighted submersible rollers and spreaders. A system of secondary and possibly tertiary tentacles is deployed from the primary lines just below the water surface to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes. This is a non-lethal system designed to render one or more detected, or undetected, attacking watercraft inoperative or ineffective.
A watercraft immobilizing system comprising a sub-surface towed array of entanglement lines and deployment systems which may be deployed and recovered from any vessel during normal operating speeds, to entangle propellers and water intakes of one or more attacking watercraft and to provide a primary, passive, non-lethal sub-surface defensive shield to effectively prohibit hijackers from boarding the protected vessel whilst underway.
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