Patent ID: 6554541
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: B63B

Abstract:
A method of placing a suction anchor with an attached anchor tether on the ocean bed, including lowering the suction anchor and securing the anchor by suction to the ocean bed, and thereafter connecting a lower end of the anchor tether to the suction anchor, the method comprising:lowering the lower end of the anchor tether into a vertically extending guiding element with a lower locking element arranged thereto, the guiding and locking elements being positioned on the exterior of a side wall of the suction anchor and formed with a bore and arranged so that the longitudinal axes form an acute angle, the lower end of the anchor tether having a rod-like connecting element arranged thereto; pulling an upper end of the connecting element outwards from the suction anchor so that the connecting element is generally brought into a position in which the longitudinal axis of the connecting element is concentric with the longitudinal axis of the bore of the locking element; and pulling the connecting element outwards from the suction anchor and toward the longitudinal axis of the bore of the locking element until a lower end of the connecting element engages the locking element of the suction anchor, the lower end of the connecting element being formed as a locking piece with a cross-sectional shape adapted to the bore of the locking element.