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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jimmy R Cole, Jr, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Concord Technologies Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ; H01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367 16 ; 367 18 ;
Abstract
A marine seismic streamer cable retriever is activated promptly when the cable and its attached retriever exceed a pre-selected safe depth. In an alternative scenario, an electronics module in the cable retriever monitors the presence of through-cable communications traffic between a mother ship and the various sensors in the cable. If an interruption in communications traffic is detected, a clock starts a count-down and sends a warning to the operator aboard ship. At the end of a count-down period, absent prior operator intervention, the cable retriever is activated.