Patent ID: 8245617
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: B63G,F41H,F42B

Abstract:
1. A non-lethal aquatic restraint device for use in restraining a water borne threat in a body of water comprising: the aquatic restraint device being buoyant and having apparatus to adjust the depth of the aquatic restraint device in a desired position relative to the surface of the water; a sensor carried on the aquatic restraint device, the sensor for triggering activation of the aquatic restraint device; the aquatic restraint device having a cylindrical body having a tendril deployment head at one end of the cylindrical body, the tendril deployment head having a pressure manifold inboard of the exterior surface of tendril deployment head; a plurality of barrels extending from the exterior of the tendril deployment head to the pressure manifold; a pressure source carried in the pressure manifold; a plurality of projectiles, one of each projectiles carried in one of each of the barrels, the projectiles launchable by the pressure source; a tendril connected to one of each of the projectiles whereby the sensor upon sensing an approaching water borne threat triggers activation of the aquatic restraint device by having the tendril deployment head launch the tendrils; a drag chute carried in the cylindrical body until the drag chute is deployed to a position outside the cylindrical body simultaneously with the launch of the tendrils; a strap connecting the drag chute to the cylindrical body; and whereby when the water borne threat runs afoul of the launched tendrils the tendrils will entangle the water borne threat.