There are times when anchor buoys are wise: such as reports that an anchorage is littered with debris from industry, shipping or old moorings etc. And we all have likely heard a description of how an ...

Enough buoyancy to lift the moorings and anchor off the sea floor is important as well, in case the buoy gets accidentally dragged to deeper water thanks to currents, storms, or snagging on a vessel.

The single point system includes a buoy, mooring and anchoring elements, product transfer system and other components. Dynamic positioning does not use mooring lines. Instead a computer controls ...

contract to supply a replacement catenary anchor leg mooring (CALM) buoy and pipeline-end manifold (PLEM) system offshore Thailand. The client was undisclosed but the project owners operate some ...

Research Platform FLIP was a 355-foot-long non-propelled manned spar buoy designed as a stable research platform for oceanographic ... Langmuir cell circulation and wave slope distribution. The first ...

PORT ANGELES — John Wayne Marina is getting six new mooring buoys that will allow larger vessels to temporarily anchor in Sequim Bay on aquatic land owned and managed by the state Department of ...

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is considering an application from Buoyant Production Technologies Limited (BPT) for a marine licence to deploy a one-fifth scaled floating demonstrator buoy ...

Mooreast has secured a new $8.8m order for a multi-buoy mooring (MBM) upgrade project ... also supply its proprietary MA5P Drag Embedment Anchors, which offer a holding capacity of up to 275 ...