Crane-Based Launch System (CBLS)
- Diving Suit Deployment System
- Diving Suit Deployment System
ODIM Brooke Ocean has delivered four crane-based launch systems to Oceanworks, to be used to deploy and recover the HARDSUIT™ atmospheric diving systems. These systems were supplied to the Russia Navy as part of a major investment in submarine escape and rescue equipment, made in the wake of the Kursk submarine disaster.
The CBLS is self-contained, air-transportable and mounted on an ISO container base, allowing for easy shipment and installation on vessels of opportunity. The CBLS consists of a folding knuckle boom marine crane with integral winch, load latch, overboarding sheave, tether sheave and electro-hydraulic power unit with redundant pump/motor.
The winch lowers a load latch down the HARDSUIT™ tether. When it reaches the HARDSUIT, it passively latches to a lift bullet on the suit. The latch is hydraulically released.Overhoisting is avoided with an anti-two-block switch on the overboarding sheave.
Safe handling of the umbilical is accomplished with the specially-designed roller sheave.
The LARS operates in up to sea state 3 conditions. The entire system folds within the footprint of an ISO 10 ft. container.
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