Fire-Escape devices of the off-shore rigs with emphasis on a detachable island rig

2- The boats of off-shore rigs, as in claim 1, wherein the rig's life-boats stationed about a deck and operative in the event of a rig-fire, have special features needed of their function, as in set forth below—

• (a) fire resistant surface, train-wagon like wheels, two hanging ladders on one side, and a watertight compartment inside, the latter storing basic medical-rescue supplies for fire-victims,
• (b) the whole boat is painted white, having intervening black stripes on the side of the ladders, thereof identified as the side to be approached,
• (c) to prevent toppling of the boat with the weight of ‘a rescuer’ climbing up the ladder:
• (1) the boat's hemi-section on the opposite side of the ladders is built heavier;
• (2) the boat having centrally situated helium-filled sacs in its interior, to be secured to the side of the ladder before boarding,
• (d) secured oars inside, built-in break resistant compass and a GPS unit, and an instant disengaging snapping joint of the anchoring metal chain to the rig,
• (e) solar-powered light source, to be put on by remote control, upon a rig fire happening about a nightfall.
• (f) in a jack-up rig, the boat-exits are structured as below:
• (a) rail road-like tracks about a ‘ocean-tubular’ start from a deck to reach the ocean in a downward incline, the ‘ocean tubular’ supported by cross bars about a leg both the cross bars and the ‘tubular’ further supported by underwater air-capsuled metal-blocks, imposing minimal strain upon a leg;
• (b) the boats with train-wagon like wheels restrained by chains about the sloping deck;
• (c) the tracks making a smooth L turn exiting the deck, whereas sideward hand-rails support a boarder about the sloping tracks (d) the ‘tubular’ baying spray-poles supplying sprinklers about its exterior;
• (e) the ‘tubular’ about its ocean terminal having up-tilted fans, to blow away the approaching gases;
• (f) the boats' exterior having raised ‘rubber guards’, the terminal of the ocean-tubular and the legs having similar guards about the level of the ocean surface;
• (g) the watertight terminal of the ‘tubular’ having a car-garage like closure, to be opened by a remote control;
• (h) wherein the boats are not restrained, a horizontally moving cross-bar lets the passage of each boat, by a control from inside or outside;
• (i) the deck is made into a ‘spray-room’ in a rig with no availing space, a ‘spray-wheelers’ being driven to the deck, for a safe exiting, to the destination of an ‘off-site’ modular, and
• (g) in a DIR, the boat-exits are structured as below:
• (a) the boat enclosures are made similar as a car-garage, their sloping floors having rail road like tracks, exiting about the indentations of a sliding door, moved by a remote control, from inside or outside;
• (b) with a moderately high deck of a DIR, the boat-exit is made about a short ‘ocean tubular’ having supporting cross bars about the DIR walls, the boats released from inside or outside by a remote control.

3- The model encompassing the ‘Detachable Island Rig’ of claim 1, wherein the rig's ‘lift-boats’ are operative upon a rig-fire, for lifting severely injured victims from ocean waters, the ‘lift-boats’ apart from the general features of a life-boat, have special features needed of their function, as set forth below:

• (a) the lift-boat with wheels is larger than the life-boat, its bottom best made as flat rather than sloping, the boat having exterior rubber-guards about all areas of contact, preventing collision injury,
• (b) the lift-boat's ‘hammock side’ has a lift hammock on its exterior, said lift hammock made of a strong nylon net, a weather resistant canvas, and a soft padded sheet tied on four corners by Velcro, the cradle like lift hammock having a rolled up metal-framed wooden terminal, and curved metal-framed wooden supports about the center and sideward, the supports perpendicularly connected to small planks, the planks in turn fixed to movable hinges of a devised see-saw rotating on, a rod about the boat-edge,
• (c) the lift-boat's ‘ladder side’ has two ladders about its exterior, for a rescuer to climb into the boat, its side having black intervening stripes, wherein the whole boat is painted white,
• (d) the lift-boat about the hammock side of the interior also having a receiving hammock, made of nylon net, supported by long central and side planks, the long planks connected to the small planks of the lift hammock by the rotating hinges of the devised see-saw, aiding to lift a ‘rescued’ in the lift hammock when the ‘rescuer’ positioned about the receiving hammock lowers its long central plank and thereby also the conjoined side planks,
• (e) all the long planks of the receiving hammock have removable heavy weight metal spheres secured about the midway of their under surface, contribution weight to the planks and aiding the ‘rescuer’ to lift the lift hammock,
• (f) the lift hammock secures the ‘rescued’ by restrain-belts, whereas its wooden structuring in-port and the boat's helium-filled sacs in its interior moved to the hammock side from the center of the boat to off-set the tilt about the hammock side, preventing the ‘rescued’ from submerging into ocean waters,
• (g) after lifting the lift hammock, its soft padding along with the ‘rescued’ is pulled in by the ‘rescuer’ onto the receiving hammock, wherein the ‘rescued’ is held in place by ‘sponge holders’ secured by Velcro bindings that the ‘rescuer’ will undo one at a time, to slide the ‘rescued’ to the bottom of the boat lined by bubbled air mattress with restraining belts, while the detachable long planks of the receiving hammock are secured about the side of the boat, and
• (h) the lift boat having hooks about its walls, supporting intravenous fluid infusions, the hooks conforming to near circles preventing disengaging of the infusions, whereas its water-tight interior compartment holds medical-rescue supplies.

5- The model of detachable island rig (DIR) of claim 1 (n), wherein its underwater ‘fire-escape’ about the basement and its vicinity encompassing, are devised with the following means/methods and or functions—

• (a) the DIR's underwater ‘fire-escape’ access is protected by an ‘inner’ and an ‘outer’ room like enclosures about an entry of a rectangular basement roof window (BRW), its locked window door ‘water-sealed’ upon a rig-fire, whether or not the DIR itself is detached in time from the permanent base,
• (b) the ‘inner’ enclosure of four walls, structured as a DIR's Staircase-Sliding room (DSR) to be locked with/unlocked from complimentary structures about the BRW, rises up through a DIR floor window, the DSR surpassing the surface of the ocean waters,
• (c) the walls of the DSR are locked in-situ with the permanent base about the BRW in a model of a watertight hood-like closure of a ‘car trunk, to be unlocked by a remote control, the DSR structured with two separate walls of sturdy metal reinforcing its strength, is devoid of a roof structure, whereas the rectangular basement roof window (BRW) door, when closed, conforming to its floor,
• (d) the ‘outer’ enclosure, made of a ‘permanent’ DIR enclosure (PDE) is a strong concrete DIR structure erected from its floor around the DSR and having sturdy ‘holder’ supports fixed to both the DSR walls about one of their lengthwise dimensions said supports conforming to a ‘hinge-joint’ model of a car trunk closure, whereas on the opposite side, similar but lengthier holders pass through slit-like openings about the DSR walls facilitating their movement while unlocking from/locking with the base aided by remote/manual control, the PDE covered on the top by a two piece watertight DIR closure (DC) configured like a sliding ‘car roof closure’,
• (e) the BRW itself is closed by two ‘watertight’ BRW doors in a ‘car roof closure’ model, sliding sideward from a reinforced basement roof structure by a remote control, the top door made of bullet proof glass, and the bottom door made of steel,
• (f) the DSR of two similar inner and outer wall structures has independent locking of each about the base platform, the inner walls supported by threaded-in forging legs giving a tripod broad base, some legs attached above the level of the holders and some below, wherein the legs have rubber caps for a firm footage about the base,
• (g) a rectangular tub like ‘basement sliding room’ (BSR) structured below the BRW and sunken into a reinforced basement roof structure, is devised to be ‘water-sealed’ after the BRW is closed and the DIR is detached,
• (h) said rectangular BSR having side windows about the lengthwise dimension of its floor, the side windows opening into down-going slides reaching the basement floor,
• the lengthwise dimensions of the rectangular DSR having sets of ‘staircase and slides’, either of the pet conforming to two separate structures to create an intervening space has a top ‘staircase structure’ fixed about the walls of the DSR, and a bottom ‘sliding structure’ facing an opposite direction is fixed to the BSR floor, its lower terminal approximating its floor windows,
• (j) a security guard communicating with the steering crew controls the flow about the DSR and the BSR, and following an announcement, the BRW is closed while the DIR is steered away,
• (k) the hand rails about the top staircase structures locking up air columns to be light weight and buoyant when the DIR is in open water after its detachment,
• (l) said metal holders are positioned in a ‘downward incline’ when locked about the basement's platform, and assume an ‘upward incline’ when unlocked, wherein the lower ends of the DSR walls are withdrawn towards the bottom of the DIR
• (m) the opposing surfaces of the DSR and the PDE, below the level of the metal holders, having a conjoining watertight rubber sheath all around, isolating the ocean tides from the DSR and the DIR interior,
• (n) the DSR's inner walls have horizontally coursing metal capsules of air about their lower ends, making the DSR buoyant and light weight while carried by the walls of the PDE in open waters,
• (o) the down-sliding units about the BSR also have adjoining stair-case provisions within the basement the top footage being common for both, whereas there are staircase provisions about the widthwise dimensions of the DSR and the BSR wherein the top pieces of the BSR staircase are detachable to be lifted up by lift-prongs, creating an intervening space for BRW closure,
• (p) when the DIR returns after it was steered away, its positioning is fine-tuned by ‘alignment poles' erected about the ‘pole tubulars’ of the four corners of the PDE and the DIR positioning adjusted by its partially drawn out ‘caster wheels’ so that said poles also pass through the ‘pole tubulars’ of the permanent base, whereby all the landmark lockings conform to their original alignment,
• (q) before the partial DIR locking and the aligning about the PDE ‘pole tubulars’, few of the metal holders of the DSR are held up, and following the alignment they are pushed down by metal prongs, for the DSR walls to be precisely locked to the base structure,
• (r) the basement fire-escape entry of the DIR is structured in a ‘spray-room’ wherein there are ‘spray-poles’ rising from the bottom, drawing water from the ocean, and feeding roof and room sprinklers a rectangular metal structure shading the basement entry, wherein the ‘spray-room’ having:
• its roof with a top metal sheet, layers of burlaps, layers of mattress-like sponge, and a bottom metal grid, its walls protected outside by additional feeders of spray poles;
• its floor stagnating an inch level of water;
• its doors guarded by 4-5 oversized overlapping layers of burlaps and high-powered fans, hindering fire and gas and smoke,
• (s) the rig having two walled ‘spray-walks’, the entry doors about the walls not opposing, the spray-walks jetting water about the passage-ways and between the two walls, the lit up arrows about the floors leading to the ‘spray room’, and rigs with no availing space for ‘spray-room’ or ‘spray-walks’, yet have provisions for modular ‘spray-tracks’ with ‘track-drives’ or simpler means of ‘spray-drives’ to be leading to ‘spray-decks’ of the rig's boat-stand,
• (t) if a warning alarm goes on in the steered-away DIR wherein fire is not controlled, people who stayed back in the ‘spray-room’ having provision to get into an adjacent deck facing the ocean side, to board and mobilize the life-boats,
• (u) the basement fire-escape having 2-3 emergency exit doors, their outer structures configured to articulate with a water-tight ‘stair-case tubular’ emerging from a rescue marine unit, aiding to evacuate fire victims for an immediate hospital treatment,
• (v) the DIR's under-water basement can be structured to better serve as living quarters, and as cooking and dining area, wherein:
• (a) an ignition source is eliminated about the immediate upper level vicinity, whereas it is eliminated about the basement upon a gas/fire alarm;
• (b) hydrogen sulfide being heavier than air, the basement is locked, the gas by its rotten egg's smell being detected about the source;
• (c) there is a provision of one oxygen cylinder for each crew member along with SCUBA ‘diving equipment’, to get out about an emergency exit;
• (d) large canisters of soda lime absorb accumulated carbon dioxide, whereas fresh air is supplied about air-tubes originating from an off-site fire-escape modular, in the event of a rig fire, and
• (w) originating from a floor-tub of the DIR basement a number of color-coded, large sized air-tubes of rubber, covered by long threaded metal tubes conjoined by a metal spiral, travel under water to a guarded off-site fire-escape modular, to enter through a floor tub, the air-tubing supplying fresh air upon a rig-fire, is devised with secure measures, as:
• (a) the tubs fill with water, and an alarm rings about both ends, consequent to structural compromise of the air-tubes;
• (b) following, the ‘injector caps’ of the tubes are capped about both ends, the water suctioned out from the tubs, and the ‘injector-caps’ about the rig terminals opened to find the leaking tube(s);
• (c) the leaking tube(s) is/are tested with ‘air-injection’ with their both terminals capped, while the divers inspect their entire length(s) for emerging air bubbles;
• (d) the compromised metal tubing is severed to be replaced by a ‘joint structure’.

6- A fire-escape modular configured as an ‘off-site’ fire-escape refuge of claim 1 (n), to be improvised with all types of rigs, the said modular having the following means/methods, and/or functions—

• (a) The modular having a basement like room structure (BRS), and a a towered top structure (TTS) above the BRS, wherein the modular exterior having:
• (1) a metal shielded wooden barge with sloping edges having hand rails in equidistance;
• (2) a wide staircase structuring about the exterior of the BRS to access sliding doors (SD) about the TTS;
• (3) an emergency entry to the BRS with ramps about its high set doors, to carry the injured crew members to/from the BRS, and (4) a terrace on the sides about the TTS to access the SD,
• (b) the SD about 5-6 feet height, and made of metal, is structured to be sliding sideward into the walls of the TTS, the SD locked by mechanical means as well as remote controls,
• (c) the BRS having:
• (a) an exterior covering of steel;
• (b) metal block flooring set forth above a metal shielded wooden barge, said metal blocks locking air capsules;
• (c) bullet-proof glass windows about all four sides, with night vision video monitoring;
• (d) helium sacs secured to its roof,
• (d) the modular, lit by solar powered lights, is anchored to the bottom of the DIR basement, or to submerged legs, by units of metal strings, each unit having two strings, each string made of sturdy but narrow metal rods, the adjacent rods linked by a metal ring, each ring in turn linked to a rod center of a parallel string, thereby the strings prevented from side ward bending or sinking, maintaining desired axial length, and precluding the modular floating closer to the rig,
• (e) the rig base without a, the interior of the TTS having:
• (a) a spacious hall with bullet-proof glass windows for night vision video monitoring;
• (b) a wide staircase leading to the basement;
• (c) a high tower of a break-proof glass enclosure, housing a large rotating high-beam flood-lights facing the sky, guiding the lost crew members in ocean waters, to the modular, the lights put on after a fire alarm,
• (f) the anchoring units of metal strings having adjacently coursing heating-coils, the latter aided by solar-powered battery source warming the ocean waters, facilitating the crew to swim to the modular in the event of a rig-fire,
• (g) powerful jets of water emanate forcefully from the edges of the modular, dissipating the approaching oil and fire on the surface water, when well explosion and oil-spewing are early events upon n rig tire,
• (h) BRS has unique security structuring, as:
• (a) the large helium sacs are secured about its roof, whereby even a swaying modular stays upright upon ocean turbulences;
• (b) the bottom air-capsuled metal blocks attributing additional buoyancy;
• (c) the barge-structuring of the boarding platform off-setting swaying, by giant ocean-tides,
• (i) wherein the modular is structured on an independently erected leg from the ocean bed, about a desired distance from the rig, the modular having:
• (a) a barge-like platform surface accessible for a single person boarding with a burnt victim;
• (b) few rob attachments to the rig, anchoring electric coils in harsh cold weathers;
• (c) high set BSR entry having ramped thresholds of differing heights, the higher set door used upon rising ocean-tides, and
• (j) the guarded off-site fire-escape modular having the originating terminals of a set of air-tubing travelling under water and reaching the fire-escape units about the rig site, for fresh air-supply to be relied upon a rig-fire.

7- The model of a basement fire-escape entry of claim 5, wherein its schematic of ‘water-seal’ is operative as an ‘in-site’ fire-escape model for a jack-up rig positioned accessible for a ‘air-gap’, said prototype model having the following means and or methods/functions—

• (a) the jack up rig based ‘fire-escape’ about a spray-room has ‘water seal’ created by an incomplete shell of two walled ‘water-enclosure’, wherein the said enclosure comprising:
• (a) outer walls and an inner walls conforming to the sides and the bottom of said enclosure that is open about the top, with water circulating between the two walls;
• (b) the interior of the ‘water-enclosure’ comprising a top sliding room (TSR) about a floor structure of the spray-room, and a sunken water-seal room (WSR) below the level of the spray-room, the rooms separated by a floor structure of the TSR that has a sideward sliding floor window leading to the WSR;
• (c) a down-sliding unit with a top structure, a bottom structures and an intervening gap, start in the TSR to reach the sunken WSR, traversing the sliding floor window;
• (d) the sunken WSR accommodating down-going curvilinear ‘slide tubular’ leading to a terminal underwater fire-rescue modular, whereas in large rigs there can be more fire-escape entry rooms and equal number of terminal rescue stations, the fire-rescue station being a submerged modular;
• (e) a spray-room stair case, structured about the fire-escape entry, is devised to access the too structure of the sliding unit about the ‘water-enclosure’,
• (b) the fire-rescue station is a specially devised underwater modular, wherein the slide-tubular reaches an entry room, said room having glass windows and a watertight entry door to the main rescue unit,
• (c) there are water feeders in the slide tubular, said feeders originating about a submerged log and ascending through the roof of the slide-tubular to the four sides of the water-enclosure creating a waterfall about the lower set outer walls of the water-enclosure,
• (d) the rescue station has provisions about an interior floor tub, to receive fresh air from a set of travelling air-tubing originating in an off-site fire-escape modular,
• (e) upon a rig fire:
• (a) each crew member has a provision for a remote control opening the sliding window door about the floor structure of the TSR;
• (b) the opened window door automatically closes in few seconds;
• (c) wherein a gas-fueled fire had spread to the spray-room, the top of the inner wall rising above the outer wall easily crumbles in a small area, whereupon the water flows from the surrounding water-enclosure into the TSR ‘water-sealing’ its floor, the sliding window door, and the WSR,
• (f) the bottom WSR sunken blow the spray-room, stands on a sturdy traversing structure that courses between one leg to another, and having metal supports similar as the legs,
• (g) the modular is constructed with air capsule in its roof to attain buoyancy, imparting no undue strain on the legs of the jack-up, whereas its top has studded magnets,
• (h) the fire-rescue station is secured to transverse structures about two legs of a rig, by any mode of conjoined structuring that is deemed strong,
• (i) the fire-rescue station has an emergency exit door structure:
• (a) said exit door opened upon an unexpected compromise to the rescue station, the crew equipped with SCUBA oxygen cylinders;
• (b) said exit door articulates with a ‘stair case tubular’ that opens into a rescue marine unit above water level,
• (j) the modular has a protective surface-guard arising from the legs with an incline, and set forth above the modular all through its lengthwise dimension, to be obstructing and diverting a heavy falling structure upon a via fire, with safe-guarding features, as:
• (a) the surface-guard has supporting chains to the legs, the chains having redundant length and not taking the impact of a falling structure;
• (b) spanning through its length, it has a surface air capsule that is structured to be larger about the leg side;
• (c) it has studded bottom magnets, wherein the magnetic poles facing the modular are similar as the top magnetic poles studded about the modular, repelling a contact;
• (d) it is devised to let a falling structure tumble down into the ocean, by sliding down on its incline, and
• (k) wherein the surface-guard had not resisted the weight, and had broken from the leg, it is yet protective to the modular, as:
• (a) it resists sinking by its buoyancy and its additional anchoring chains;
• (b) it maintains its devised incline by the larger sized air capsule about the leg side, making the weight to furthermore drift into the water;
• (c) it is repelled by the magnetic poles about the top of the nodular, whereupon the weight may not reach the modular with an impact;
• and (d) its underwater disposition making all the falling objects lighter than they actual are.

8- The emergency fire-escape entry of a rig structured about a ‘spray-room’ with its converging ‘spray-walks’ as in claim 5 (s), wherein about a rig not adequately spaced for ‘spray-walks’, a less space occupying ‘spray-tracks’ in conjunction with ‘track-drives’, or a simpler means of ‘spray-drives’ are substituted, their devising having the following means/methods and or functions—

• (a) ‘spray-tracks’ are tailored ‘modular’ canals of metal or concrete, set forth below the surface level of a rig's floor, or raised above the floor like rail road-tracts, both to be water-filled upon a rig fire,
• (b) ‘track-drives’ are track-wheelers, amounting same as the number of the crow, and built as box-like enclosures with bottom opening, sufficient to be accommodating a peddled tricycle, the first wheeler in a ‘merger’ spray-track about a work-station being occupied by a first boarder, whereas bigger-wheelers board multiple workers, or transport an injured,
• (c) the track-wheeler having an airtight snapping door about the front seat, and the converging walls of the wheeler dip into the track waters, wherein a wet floor-length burlap attire with a full head cover is hung about the entry doors of the wheeler,
• (d) a ‘suction’ device in a back-seat of the wheeler drives water from the spray-track into a spray-pole and its interior and exterior sprinklers, the track-wheeler structured like the spray-room about its door and its roof, is jacketed with multiple burlap layers made wet by self-bathing top sprinklers reaching the exterior, a covering sheet of burlap dipping into the track waters,
• (e) the track-wheeler is lit up by solar powered head lights, whereas the lit-up track-arrows direct to the spray-room, each vehicle entering in a stand outside the spray-room,
• (f) the track-wheeler having the side wheels drawn closer to the center, and the walls converging about the bottom make the spray-tracks availing minimal rig space,
• (g) upon a fire-alarm, the suction pumps of the track-wheelers are activated driving water from the water filled spray-tracks, drenching the wheelers,
• (h) the structuring is modified, wherein:
• (1) if work stations are isolated, there can be multiple spray-rooms, with multiple basement entries;
• (2) if the work stations are in different levels, there is a provision for upper-level spray-walks and spray-room, the latter located above the lower level spray-room with a connecting ‘sliding structure’, the basement entry being single,
• (i) older rigs availing no space even for spray-tracks, yet have provision for a tri-wheeler spray-drives with needed modification, as:
• (a) the tri-wheeler has more height and wide-set back wheels, with two water compartments about the top, a smaller one supplying the exterior sprinklers drenching the burlaps, and the larger one supplying the interior sprinklers;
• (b) the peddling front wheel is of wider diameter for the peddles to be far above the floor accommodating a bottom metal basin receiving the down-pouring water, to recirculate to the top tank, said metal basin extending from the side walls to spread all through the bottom except for openings about the wheels, where a fire-resistant rubber sheath extends from the basin to top wheel frames, allowing sideward turns of the wheels, whereas a front entry door is located above the basin;
• (c) the interior sprinklers can be made wider, if a boarder had caught fire.