Global DeepBuoy Agents for the Defence, Salvage and Fishing Industries

DeepBuoy™ Applications

Within the subsurface/subsea environment, it is difficult to imagine a product that has a greater versatility than DeepBuoy.

The recovery mechanism itself (a balloon with the seawater displaced by DeepBuoy pumped into it), is straightforward, relatively simple and cost effective. As any ‘intervention’ takes place directly from the surface vessel (attachment made subsurface by ROV), then much of the supporting surface infrastructure (cranes, et al.) becomes redundant.

DeepBuoy will lift any load, assuming that there is a large enough vessel to permit the product to be pumped into. We at Stone-Falcon are concentrating the global roll out of this extraordinary product on the Defence, Salvage and Fishing (Sport and Commercial) industries, as the Global Agents within these domains. DeepBuoy could potentially rescue a stricken nuclear submarine if its ballast tanks were intact. The product could simply be pumped into them, displacing the water, imparting buoyancy and thus affecting a rescue. DeepBuoy was made for the deep. It is incompressible and effective at 3000 metres below surface (sea). We are also optimistic that the product could play a major role in the recovery of lost munitions such as missiles subsea.

For salvage operations, we are of the belief that DeepBuoy will offer an innovative and cost effective methodology for recovery to surface of sunken property. As stated earlier, it has the capability to lift any size load in a controlled manner (rate of ascent can be adjusted by displacement calculations), was made to operate at great depths, and is incompressible. It is also worth pointing out that the product is a viscoelastic gel–thus this aids the ability to pump it down into the depths. Once pumping ceases, the product returns to structure that imparts buoyancy. The necessity for surface equipment is thus greatly reduced.

Our team is also exploring the potential of the product within the North Sea Commercial fishing industry as a means to make boats ‘unsinkable’-the potential exists, and it is felt that it may well prove to be a boon in one of the harshest marine environments on earth.

Further to this the team is also looking at the application of the product for ‘float lines’ on commercial netting. At present, within the North Sea, vessels frequently have to go through costly down time adjusting the depths that they wish the net line to hang at-we are optimistic that DeepBuoy may well offer an innovative and cost effective answer to this.

Above all else the potential exists that as DeepBuoy begins to be more widely used, it may play a pivotal role in saving lives at sea.