Patent ID: 8807058

Claim:
A self-supporting multihull vessel for diving services comprising: a. a hull comprised of at least: (i) a starboard pontoon; and (ii) a port pontoon; b. an independently operable water jet drive, operated by a diesel engine, mounted in at least one pontoon; c. an onboard dive compressor, wherein the onboard dive compressor is part of a dive system in communication with a main dive control station; d. a bidirectional diver communication device for a diver, wherein the bidirectional diver communication device communicates with a diver supervisor bidirectional communication device located in the main dive control station; e. a plurality of onboard dive tools, wherein the onboard dive tools comprising a member of the group consisting of: (i) a water jetting unit mounted in the hull connected to the diesel engine; and (ii) a hydraulic power unit connected to the diesel engine or an auxiliary engine; f. a generator for providing power to the dive system, any portion of the dive system, or the multihull vessel; g. a fuel tank in fluid communication with the water pump unit, the generator, or the diesel engine; h. the main dive control station further comprises: (i) a main control panel for monitoring and displaying dive equipment and diver status; (ii) an onboard dive server for communicating with a network and an administrative server with a client device comprising: 1. a dive processor for connecting to and removing dive data recordings from dive data sensors worn by divers during dives; 2. a dive server data storage; 3. a dive display connected to the dive control station data storage; 4. computer instructions in the dive server data storage for tracking divers, monitoring dive operations, presenting dive information on the dive display, and storing dive data recordings; 5. computer instructions in the dive control station data storage for tracking sensor signals and presenting the sensor signals on the dive display; and 6. computer instructions to form an executive dashboard for visually presenting diver information including locations of divers in water as divers perform services; and i. a helm control connected to a navigation control and the jet drives.