摘要 |
The invention concerns a submersible heavy lift barge, comprising: at least one floating body (2, 3); an essentially rectangular deck box (4) arranged on and carried by the at least one floating body; at each corner of the deck box a stability tower (5, 6, 7); water ballast tanks arranged in the at least one floating body and/or in the stability towers; one or more ballast water pumps and/or compressors for ballasting or deballasting the water ballast tanks. The barge comprises two or more of said floating bodies which extend in the longitudinal direction of the barge, are spaced with respect to each other in the transverse direction of the barge to have an interspace (18) in between and are arranged symmetrically with respect to the central longitudinal axis (11) of the barge, the interspace being open in the forward and afterward direction. |