Patent ID: 8683938

Claim:
An underwater posture stabilization system configured to be attached to underwater equipment selected from the group consisting of submersibles, underwater robots, and scuba diving equipment, to be used for imaging and exploration in water and at the bottom of water, the water and bottom of water selected from the group consisting of seas, oceans, rivers, lakes, marshes, dams, and ship bottom surveys, said system comprising: a frame to be attached to an apparatus body of the underwater equipment, the frame including at least a first side frame element and a second side frame element; a first sliding portion and a second sliding portion, each sliding portion arranged so as to be movable back and forth along a longitudinal direction of the frame, the first and the second sliding portions being arranged respectively on the first side frame element and second side frame element; a support member which is fixed at a lower end portion thereof to each sliding portion, and arranged at an upper end side thereof so as to project upward or obliquely upward from the sliding portion; and a floating body supported so as to be movable up and down by a respective one of each support member.