Patent ID: 8716902

Claim:
An underwater transportable pod for use in an underwater inductively coupled data and power transfer system said system comprising: a home docking station including an inductively coupled connector and a remote host docking station including an inductively coupled connector; the transportable pod including a battery, a solid state memory device, and an inductively coupled connector, said battery and said solid state memory device being electrically coupled to said inductively coupled connector via control electronic circuitry wherein, during use, electrical power is transferred via each of said inductively coupled connectors from said home docking station to said remote host docking station via the battery of the pod and data is transferred from said remote host docking station to said home docking station via said memory device of the pod, wherein electrical power is transferred in both directions between said battery and said remote docking station to said pod via said inductively coupled connector data is transferred in both directions between said docking station and said solid state memory device.