Patent ID: 8790039

Claim:
A floating structure comprising: floating, modular, parallelepipedic blocks having vertical edges with lugs; connecting elements inserted into the lugs to assemble the blocks; and wherein one or more of the connecting elements each comprise an anchoring key providing an anchoring point, the anchoring key comprising: an upper part with an upper surface flush with upper surfaces of the blocks; a rod engaged in the lugs of several adjacent blocks in order to assemble the blocks, the rod extending from a lower surface of the upper part and having a bore extending in a longitudinal direction of the rod for receiving and securing one end of a rope such that the rope extends through the bore and out an end of the rod opposite the upper part and below the floating structure, the bore being a blind bore which is closed where the rod meets the upper part of the anchoring key and comprising an upper portion which extends above the lugs; wherein the one end of the rope is secured inside the bore by a stop component comprising a stop rod extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the rod and passing through the upper portion of the bore and through two openings hollowed transversely through the rod; and wherein the stop rod rests on a washer which rests on one of the lugs of the blocks.