Anchoring apparatus for wave energy converters

An anchoring system comprising:

• an anchoring enclosure, having at least one chamber, whose buoyancy can be controlled;
• piping apparatus connected to the chamber for enabling a gas or a liquid to be pumped into or out of the chamber;
• when a gas is pumped into the chamber the anchoring enclosure is made more buoyant, when a fluid is pumped into a chamber the anchoring enclosure is made less buoyant;
• said anchoring enclosure being rendered sufficiently buoyant to be towed to a selected site of a body of water and to be deployed at the selected site and said anchoring enclosure being selectively rendered less buoyant so as to sink or be lowered, in a controlled manner, to the bottom of the body of water;
• said anchoring enclosure including a bottom extension extending around the underside of the anchoring enclosure for embedding the anchoring enclosure into the bottom of the body of water;
• and
• an anti-scouring skirt extending about the perimeter of the lower portion of the anchoring enclosure and extending about the anchoring enclosure for resting along the bottom of the body of water and preventing water movement from disturbing the embedded bottom extension.