Patent ID: 9081120
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G01V

Abstract:
1. An instrumented-marine-cable-handling system comprising: a first plurality of monolithic carriers disposed at spaced apart positions around an endless path, each of the monolithic carriers having a contact face; a first drive system advancing the plurality of carriers around the endless path; a nonlinear retrieval path segment along which an instrumented marine cable having spaced apart rigid elements attached along the length of the marine cable travels when being retrieved, wherein the rigid elements have aft ends and wherein the contact faces are shaped to mate with the shape of the aft ends; wherein the monolithic carriers have fixed-width slots extending radially into the monolithic carriers and through the contact faces to admit the instrumented marine cable radially into the monolithic carriers; wherein the contact faces of the advancing carriers engage and drive against the aft ends to pull the rigid elements of the instrumented marine cable to draw the instrumented marine cable along the nonlinear retrieval path segment.