US 8,807,058 B1Granted

Jet powered multihull networked vessel for providing diving services with an onboard water jetting system and real time diver tracking

AssigneeAqueos Corporation

InventorsTheodore K. Roche, IV, Bradley M. Parro, Travis A. Detke, Mark O. Wieneke, Troy R. Turner

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Abstract

A diving services multihull vessel with a starboard pontoon and a port pontoon, with dive support stations built into the bow and stern, a port independently operable water jet drive operated by a port diesel engine; a starboard independently operable water jet drive operated by a starboard diesel engine; a dive compressor, a water jetting unit, a hydraulic power unit, a decompression chamber, a generator; a fuel tank, an onboard dive server for tracking divers and monitoring dive operations and presenting the information on the display as well as for tracking sensor signals including diver depth, elapsed time of dive, ambient water temperature around a diver, video and/or audio feed from a diver and presenting on a display, as well as transmitting via a network to a location remote to the vessel, wherein the vessel further includes a helm control connected to a navigation control and the jet drives.

A self-supporting multihull vessel for diving services comprising:

a. a hull comprised of at least:
(i) a starboard pontoon;
and
(ii) a port pontoon;
b. an independently operable water jet drive, operated by a diesel engine, mounted in at least one pontoon;
c. an onboard dive compressor, wherein the onboard dive compressor is part of a dive system in communication with a main dive control station;
d. a bidirectional diver communication device for a diver, wherein the bidirectional diver communication device communicates with a diver supervisor bidirectional communication device located in the main dive control station;
e. a plurality of onboard dive tools, wherein the onboard dive tools comprising a member of the group consisting of:
(i) a water jetting unit mounted in the hull connected to the diesel engine;
and
(ii) a hydraulic power unit connected to the diesel engine or an auxiliary engine;
f. a generator for providing power to the dive system, any portion of the dive system, or the multihull vessel;
g. a fuel tank in fluid communication with the water pump unit, the generator, or the diesel engine;
h. the main dive control station further comprises:
(i) a main control panel for monitoring and displaying dive equipment and diver status;
(ii) an onboard dive server for communicating with a network and an administrative server with a client device comprising:
1. a dive processor for connecting to and removing dive data recordings from dive data sensors worn by divers during dives;
2. a dive server data storage;
3. a dive display connected to the dive control station data storage;
4. computer instructions in the dive server data storage for tracking divers, monitoring dive operations, presenting dive information on the dive display, and storing dive data recordings;
5. computer instructions in the dive control station data storage for tracking sensor signals and presenting the sensor signals on the dive display;
and
6. computer instructions to form an executive dashboard for visually presenting diver information including locations of divers in water as divers perform services;
and
i. a helm control connected to a navigation control and the jet drives.

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