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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1993
Jens Korsgaard, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
A vessel with a downward-facing mooring part moors to a submerged buoyant mooring element anchored to the ocean bottom by hoisting the mooring element from a stowed position, at a depth of net neutral buoyancy of the mooring element and its anchoring system, until a mating upper part of the mooring element comes into contact with the mooring part. The mooring operation is completed safely, quickly, and positively by securing the mooring element to the vessel with a multiplicity of hooks that are lowered by actuators mounted in the vessel to engage a mooring ring on the upper part of the mooring element and are then raised to exert a predetermined compression force on a resilient compression member. The mooring part may include a turret rotatably mounted in the vessel, or the mooring element may have an upper part that makes sealing contact with the hull of the vessel and a lower part that is rotatable with respect to the upper part and is connected to the anchor lines, so that the vessel may weather vane in response to wind, wave, and current forces.