Patent ID: 8303145

Claim:
A marine lighting device mountable in a gap between free ends of a tubular member of a marine structure of a marine vessel, said device comprising: an LED light bar having a circuit board and an LED array supportably mounted to said circuit board, said LED array including a plurality of light emitting diodes; a suitably light transmissive lens having a tubular body with a hollow interior within which said LED light bar is enclosed; and a housing having a unitary wall which forms a tubular first end, a tubular second end, and a central portion located between said tubular first end and said tubular second end, said tubular first end and said tubular second end being mutually spaced from one another along a longitudinal axis of said housing, said central portion joining said tubular first end and said tubular second end fixedly to one another, said unitary wall being penetrated by an opening located between said tubular first end and said tubular second end, said tens being mounted inside said housing such that a portion of said light transmissive lens overlying said LED array is interposed between said LED array and said opening, said light emitting diodes being oriented to cast light through said portion of said lens and through said opening when said light emitting diodes are electrically energized, and at least one coupling which mounts said housing in the gap axially in line with the free ends of the tubular member of the marine structure, said at least one coupling including at least a first coupling which internally receives both a first one of the free ends of the tubular member of the marine structure and at least a portion of said tubular first end of said housing.