Patent ID: 8807869
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: B63B,E02B,Y02A

Abstract:
1. An ocean floating barrier for protecting ocean installations, harbors, and coastlines by dampening the forces of winds, waves, water currents, and containing oil spills, comprising: an elongate buoyant floating platform structure having a top end, a bottom end, and opposed sides, said platform at least partially submerged beneath the water surface and equipped with buoyancy tanks fillable with liquid; a tether system having a plurality of tethers each connected at a first end with said platform structure and extending downwardly and outwardly therefrom at an angle of from about 0° to about 45° relative to a vertical axis, and each anchored to the ocean floor at a second end; and said buoyancy tanks being filled with liquid to function as liquid vibration dampers and to balance tension in said tethers; and a plurality of generally flat rectangular perforated screens on said bottom end, and on said opposed sides of said platform, said screens on said bottom end of said platform disposed beneath the water surface, and said screens on said opposed sides of said platform having an upper portion disposed above the water surface and a lower portion submerged beneath the water surface.