Abstract: A method of delivering to the ocean bottom and raising to the surface of a station provided with instrument packages for deep-water researches is realized by way of free submergence of the station in a water mass under the action of negative buoyancy of a ballast weight, landing of the station to the bottom, dropping of the ballast weight upon completing the bottom researches, and free emergence of the station under the action of positive buoyancy of a float module. In the course of free submergence, the station is divided into a unit comprising the instrument packages and a unit comprising the ballast weight and the float module, the unit comprising the instrument packages is directed along a path differing from the path of the free-falling unit comprising the ballast weight, thus ensuring the landing of the instrument packages at a predetermined distance from the ballast weight.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 22, 1982
Date of Patent:
December 10, 1985
Assignee:
Institut Okeanologii Imeni P.P. Shirshova
Inventors:
Evgeny A. Kontar, Sergei L. Soloviev, Viktor P. Brovko, Rudolf G. Glukhikh, Evgeny N. Khomyakov, Jury F. Pakhomov, Alexei M. Khmeljuk, Vladimir I. Vyalykh, Leonid G. Zansokhov, Valentin P. Smertin, Alexei I. Evseev, Fyarit A. Sharipov