Watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system
OwnerRichard J. A. Gaytoninventor
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Abstract
A watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system for a marine vessel to passively defend against an attacking engine-powered watercraft includes a towed array of entanglement lines. The entanglement lines can be provided on and administered from removable/replaceable storage cartridges mountable on and/or deployed via davits, outriggers, paravanes, and/or weighted submersible rollers to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes of encroaching watercraft.
Claims20
A marine piracy prevention system for a marine vessel, the system comprising separate entanglement lines;
- and at least one submersible structure suspendable at an assailable face of the vessel, the at least one submersible structure being configured to guide the entanglement lines such that the entanglement lines stream proximate the surface of water generally aft of the vessel during travel of the vessel and are operative to disable a propulsion system of an approaching surface watercraft.
A marine piracy prevention system for a marine vessel, the system comprising separate entanglement lines, a cartridge mountable to the stern of the watercraft, the cartridge being dividable into sections, each of the sections being configured to store and deploy a predefined number of the entanglement lines;
- and at least one submersible structure suspendable at an assailable face of the vessel, the at least one submersible structure being configured to guide the entanglement lines such that the entanglement lines stream proximate the surface of water generally aft of the vessel during travel of the vessel and are operative to disable a propulsion system of an approaching surface watercraft.
A cartridge mountable to a marine vessel, the cartridge comprising a storage unit storing separate entanglement lines, the storage unit being configured to administer the entanglement lines such that the entanglement lines stream proximate the surface of water during travel of the vessel and are operative to disable a propulsion system of an approaching surface watercraft, the storage unit being divided into at least two sections, each of the at least two sections storing a predefined number of the entanglement lines.
A marine piracy prevention system for a marine vessel, the system comprising at least one boom coupled to a first portion of the vessel;
- a floatable device coupled to both the at least one boom and a second portion of the vessel;
- and separate entanglement lines coupled to the at least one boom, the entanglement lines being configured to extend and stream proximate the surface of water during travel of the vessel and operative to disable a propulsion system of an approaching surface watercraft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.