Autonomous apparatus for collecting and lifting of this reason be stored on a washed objects

摘要

P machine independent of the gathering of nodules resting on the seabed / p & & p & it comprises at least one collection vehicle 1, a ballast 5, the flotation means 2. A cable 3 passes over a means 7 for the conversion of the direction of displacement in order to convert the upward movement of the float in a displacement of the vehicle on the seabed. It also comprises means 4 for securing the float with the ballast until the assembly has reached the bottom, the means 6 in order to cause the arrival on the ground of the vehicle 1 in a selected point, and means 13 in order to disconnect the weight of the vehicle 1. / p & & p & application to the search to polymetallic nodules on the sea bottom / p