Patent ID: 7575397

Claim:
A floating platform for deployment on the surface of a water basin in the areas where the bottom of said water basin can be reached for anchoring said floating platform, said floating platform comprising: a plurality of interconnected floating structural elements, each structural element of said plurality comprising an elongated body with an interior that is hollow or at least partially filled with a material lighter than water, said structural elements floating in a vertically oriented position, each said structural element having means for adjusting buoyancy of said structural element and connecting means for interconnecting each said structural element with an adjacent structural element of said plurality in a sealing engagement for sealing said hollow interior of said structural element from the hollow interior of said adjacent structural element; said floating platform having means for anchoring said floating platform to said bottom; said floating platform having a unified center of masses of said plurality of the construction elements that always remains in a position that maintains said floating platform in a horizontally counterbalanced state on the surface of water; all moments created by masses of said structural elements being in equilibrium; wherein each said structural element has side walls, a closed bottom and an open top closed by a cover plate, wherein said means for adjusting buoyancy of said structural element comprise at least one hole in said closed bottom, a plug for closing said at least one hole, and at least one opening in said cover plate for adjusting said buoyancy by pumping out water from said hollow interior of said structural element when said at least one hole in said closed bottom is closed by said plug; and, wherein said connecting means comprise side openings in said side walls with resilient elements on the outer side of said side walls and threaded fasteners inserted through said side openings in said side walls when said side openings in said structural elements are aligned so that in the attached state of said adjacent structural elements said resilient elements are pressed to each other for sealing said hollow interior.