Patent ID: 7536967

Claim:
A marine water conversion apparatus, comprising: a float tank having side, bottom and top walls, a long vertical cylindrical main tube suspended from said tank and having a lower end with a plurality of radially outward opening outlets, an upstanding cylindrical upper tube section secured to and extending upwardly from said float tank in coaxial relation to said main tube terminating in a closed upper end to form an air chamber, an air vent opening in said air chamber at the upper end of said tube section, a reversible water pump mounted on said tank, a water conveying conduit interconnecting said reversible water pump and the lower end of said air chamber in said tube section, and a plurality of main water pumps mounted on said float tank and connected in water delivery relation to said main pipe, whereby operation of said main water pumps transfers surface water to said outlets at the lower end of said main tube, said apparatus being positionable at predetermined locations in an ocean wherein said float tank is disposed below the ocean surface when air fills a first predetermined portion of said air chamber in said tube section and wherein said top wall of said float tank is disposed above the ocean surface when water fills a second predetermined portion of said air chamber in said tube section.