Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a plastic stringline cutter apparatus is provided which includes a base, an upright stand, and a faceplate that permanently connects unitary through which a slot with an oval acclivity or syncline is provided which accepts a ratchet paddleblade with a connecting handle that mounts springable, releasable and reversible in a unitary slot. In one embodiment the paddleblade with connecting handle which is manually springable operative has a plurality of incurvate xyresic edges, typically two, one upper and one lower.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a cable winding apparatus is provided which includes a stand, a race on the stand, a manually rotatable handle including a clutch having a mating surface for engaging and rotatably driving a spool positioned between the handle and the race, and a spindle releasably and rotatably connecting the race and the handle. In one embodiment, the race is contained upon one end of a removable plug that fits into a socket in the stand, said plug being reversible with an alternative nonidentical race on the opposite end. The race can be conic, hemispherical or bulbous or have stepped concentric circles. The clutch may include conical or right cylindrical external or internal mating surfaces or teeth and may include adapters having similar surfaces engageable therewith for mating with different sized reels.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for working on a submerged object comprising a work platform having jetting means carried thereby for excavating the floor beneath the body of water and around the object.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for loading pipeline from the shore onto a reel mounted on a vessel adjacent to the shore whereby the reel may be pivoted from its normal operational position in which the reel axis is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the vessel to a position in which the reel axis is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the vessel so as to thereby permit the vessel to be anchored parallel to the shore while the pipe-loading operation is being conducted.

Abstract: A reel and bending apparatus and method for laying pipelines from a floating vessel on the floor of a body of water in which the pipeline is capable of being unreeled from either the top or bottom of the reel and then translated through two pair of independently housed horizontally disposed rollers working in conjunction with the reel for straightening the pipe in the vertical plane.