Balltec Limited

Jonathan Scott Preston

William David Loton Parry

Jonathan Fletcher Jackson

Marco Andre Teixeira

Daniel O'Connor

Richard James Taylor

An elongate connector for subsea connection of cables and the like to wind turbine generators has a plurality of locking elements arranged on ramp surfaces and held in a plurality of cages on the connector. The cages are moveable to move the locking elements along the ramp surfaces between an engaged position and a disengaged position and the plurality of cages are moveable independently of each other. A release collar is provided, which can move all the cages simultaneously to the disengaged position, in order to allow removal of the connector.

Connector

A mooring connector assembly () has a body () arranged to be pivotally mounted to a structure (), such as a tethered buoy, to be moored for movement about a pivot axis. At least a part of the body extends below the pivot axis when so mounted and oriented for use. A line stopper () is mounted to the part of the body which extends below the pivot axis in use and is operative to retain a mooring line () relative to the body. The body is configured to receive a tensioner () for tensioning a mooring line () retained by the stopper such that the tensioner urges the line at a point which is below the pivot axis when the body is oriented for use. The body may be an elongate tube () pivotally connected to a structure to be moored () at one end and fitting with a chain stopper () at the opposite end. The tube is configured to receive a chain tensioner () between the chain stopper () and pivot axis.

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Jonathan Scott Preston