Patent ID: 7947172
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: B63B,B63J,C02F,Y02W

Abstract:
1. A waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system to decontaminate surrounding water, comprising: a primary underwater tunnel extending longitudinally beneath said vessel from a below the waterline vessel intake and leading to a below the waterline vessel output; said tunnel having a longitudinal axis and a closed perimeter wall surrounding the longitudinal axis of the tunnel, said tunnel and perimeter wall further including a two-part diversion channel; a propulsion system causing water to move through said primary tunnel; at least one of an ozone gas generator and an ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas generator; a source of pressurized water; a manifold mixer mixing said pressurized water with at least on of said ozone gas and said ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas to produce an oxygenated water mixture; a conduit system with a conduit and an outlet port leading from said manifold mixer carrying said oxygenated water mixture near said vessel intake and the outlet port outputting the oxygenated water proximate the vessel intake such that water moving through said primary tunnel is oxygenated and decontaminated by said oxygenated water mixture; and the two-part diversion channel is defined by a first upstream channel and second downstream channel, said downstream channel carrying a reverse water flow which is opposite to said water flow moving through said primary tunnel, the two part diversion channel having a channel inlet and a channel outlet open to said primary tunnel proximate the vessel intake.