Patent ID: 8839734

Claim:
A marine platform, comprising: a) a plurality of individual buoys, each buoy having an upper section, a middle section and a lower section; b) a platform deck having a central portion surrounded by a peripheral portion; c) a plurality of articulating connections, the articulating connections connecting the upper section of each of the buoys to the platform deck; d) wherein each articulating connection movably connects a buoy to the platform deck; e) a plurality of mooring lines anchoring the platform structure to a seabed, each mooring line attached to the platform at a position that is spaced inwardly of the buoys; f) each said mooring line is spaced in between two of said buoys, each line being inclined as the said line passes between said two buoys and above the bottom of the said two buoys at a position where the said line passes between the two buoys; g) wherein the majority of the buoy sections are trusses, and wherein the upper and middle buoy sections each include multiple vertically extending and laterally spaced apart tubular members; and h) wherein each section contains a plurality of longitudinally extending corner members, and the longitudinally extending corner members of the upper buoyant section and the lower ballast section each have a greater cross sectional area than the longitudinally extending corner members of the middle truss section.