Shallow water platform
AssigneeSevan Marine Asa
InventorFredrik MAJOR
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Abstract
A device is described for hull in all essentials symmetrical about a centre axis and arranged to be accommodated resting on a seabed, where the hull is provided with several support means which in an active position protrudes downwards from a hull bottom and is arranged to maintain the centre axis of the hull in a specified position by each support mean being arranged for vertical displacement in relation to one or both of the hull and the seabed. It is also described a method of positioning a hull in all essentials symmetrical about a centre axis on a seabed.
Claims10
A hull substantially symmetrical about a centre axis and configured to be arranged such that a hull side exhibits a predetermined freeboard, the hull comprising:
- several support members that in an active position protrude downwards from a hull bottom and are arranged to maintain the centre axis of the hull in a specified position, each support member being arranged for vertical displacement in relation to one or both of the hull and a seabed.
A method of positioning a hull, that is essentially symmetrical about a centre axis, on a seabed, comprising:
- arranging the hull floating on a specified location above the seabed;
- ballasting the hull such that a hull side exhibits a predetermined freeboard;
- and
- displacing several support members vertically downwards and into abutment with the seabed, potentially into uncompacted material below the seabed to stable support of the hull.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.