Submersible vessel for submarine operations

Claim 1

A SUBMERSIBLE VESSEL OF UNITARY CONSTRUCTION CAPABLE OF BEING FLOATED FOR MOVEMENT TO A LOCATION AND THEN SUBMERGED COMPRISING SUBMERSIBLE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS, A WORKING PLATFORM, SUPPORTING MEANS CONNECTING THE WORKING PLATFORM AND THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS TO SUPPORT THE WORKING PLATFORM IN SPACED RELATION ABOVE THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS, A PLURALITY OF UPSTANDING ELEMENTS PRESENTING THE TOTAL WATER PLANE AREAS OF THE VESSEL UPON SUBMERGENCE OF THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS, AT LEAST A PART OF THE PLURALITY OF UPSTANDING ELEMENTS COMPRISING AT LEAST A PART OF THE SUPPORTING MEANS AND EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS, MEANS FOR RIGIDLY POSITIONING THE UPSTANDING ELEMENTS RELATIVE TO THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS, THE PLURALITY OF UPSTANDING ELEMENTS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED STABILIZING MEMBERS EACH EXTENDING UPWARDLY A PREDETERMINED EFFECTIVE HEIGHT ABOVE THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS, THE EFFECTIVE HEIGHT BEING EQUAL TO THE MAXIMUM DEPTH OF WATER TO WHICH THE VESSEL IS SUBMERSIBLE, EACH ELONGATED STABILIZING MEMBER OF THE PLURALITY OF ELONGATED STABILIZING MEMBERS PRESENTING CONTINUOUS EXTERNAL SURFACES THROUGHOUT THE EFFECTIVE HEIGHT THEREOF AND BEING OF APPRECIABLE CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA THROUGHOUT THE EFFECTIVE HEIGHT THEREO, EACH ELONGATED STABILIZING MEMBER OF THE PLURALITY OF ELONGATED STABILIZING MEMBERS BEING LOCATED AT AN APEX OF A SUBSTANTIAL POLYGON DEFINING A STABILIZING PATTERN, THE SUBSTANTIAL POLYGON HAVING APICES EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE PLURALITY OF ELONGATED STABILIZING MEMBERS, THE DISPLACEMENT OF THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS BEING SUFFICIENT TO FLOAT THE VESSEL WITH THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS HAVING FREEBOARD, THE DISPLACEMENT OF THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS AND OF THE PLURALITY OF UPSTANDING ELEMENTS BEING SUFFICIENT TO BUOYANTLY SUPPORT THE VESSEL AT ANY DEPTH OF SUBMERGENCE OF THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS THROUGHOUT THE MAXIMUM DEPTH OF WATER TO WHICH THE VESSEL IS SUBMERSIBLE, MEANS FOR ADDING BALLAST TO THE VESSEL TO SUBMERGE THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS, MEANS FOR REMOVING BALLAST FROM THE VESSEL TO FLOAT THE VESSEL WITH THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS HAVING FREEBOARD, THE MOMENTS OF INERTIA OF THE TOTAL WATER PLANE AREAS OF THE VESSEL ABOUT ANY AXIS OF HEEL OF THE VESSEL BEING OF MAGNITUDES TO MAINTAIN THE METACENTER OF THE VESSEL WITH RESPECT TO THE AXIS OF HEEL ABOVE THE CENTER OF GRAVITY OF THE VESSEL AT ANY DEPTH OF SUBMERGENCE OF THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS THROUGHOUT THE MAXIMUM DEPTH OF WATER TO WHICH THE VESSEL IS SUBMERSIBLE, THE CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA OF THE PLURALITY OF ELONGATED STABILIZING MEMBERS THROUGHOUT THE EFFECTIVE HEIGHTS THEREOF BEING PROPORTIONED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STABILIZING PATTERN TO ESTABLISH MOMENTS OF INERTIA OF THE WATER PLANE AREAS OF THE PLURALITY OF ELONGATED STABILIZING MEMBERS ABOUT ANY AXIS OF HEEL OF THE VESSEL UPON SUBMERGENCE OF THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS OF MAGNITUDES NOT SUBSTANTIALLY LESS THAN THE MAGNITUDES OF THE MOMENTS OF INERTIA OF THE TOTAL WATER PLANE AREAS OF THE VESSEL ABOUT ANY AXIS OF HEEL OF THE VESSEL UPON SUBMERGENCE OF THE BASE STRUCTURE MEANS.