DEEP-SEA SLACK WIRE MOORING SYSTEM

摘要

Apparatus for use in slack line mooring systems, especially those having an "N" configuration, which is useful for mooring bodies floating in water of unknown depth and which includes an anchoring device adapted to descend to and rest on the floor of a body of water. A cable storage means is associated with the anchoring device for storing a length of cable and is adapted to pay out, upon deployment of the anchoring device, a length D of cable therefrom approximately equal to the vertical distance between the floor of the body of water on which the anchor is to rest and the surface of said water. Of fundamental importance to the apparatus is the provision of means, adapted to be preconditioned by the magnitude of said length D of cable paid out, for permitting said cable storage means to pay out an additional length X of cable so related to said length D that the "Scope" of the cable system as determined by the ratio of said lengths according to the formula (D + X/D) assumes a suitable value, whereby to permit said cable to assume a configuration, especially an N configuration, under slack cable conditions of such proportions as to minimize the possibility of damage thereto which might otherwise result from an excess or deficiency of slack in said cable.