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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1999
Ronald S. Peterson, Panama City Beach, FL (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A boat deployed explosive net assembly includes a boat, an elongated tray, a pair of pontoons, an explosive net and one or more drogue devices. The boat is floatable on and movable along a surface of a body of water, such as a surf zone. The tray includes an outer member and a pair of inner members. The outer member is rotatably mounted to the boat such that the tray is movable between a transport position in which it is aligned in generally parallel relation to the direction of movement of the boat and a deployed position in which it is aligned in generally transverse relation to the direction of movement of the boat. Each inner member is mounted to and disposed within an interior cavity of the outer member and telescopingly movable in relation to the outer member between retracted and extended condition. Each pontoon is floatable on and movable along the surf zone and mounted to one of the inner members of the tray. The explosive net is movable between a stored condition in which the explosive net is gathered within interior cavities of the inner members of the tray and a deployed condition in which the explosive net is spread over a portion of the surf zone.