Watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system

摘要

A watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system for a marine vessel to passively defend against an attacking engine-powered watercraft includes a towed array of entanglement lines. The entanglement lines can be provided on and administered from removable/replaceable storage cartridges mountable on and/or deployed via davits, outriggers, paravanes, and/or weighted submersible rollers to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes of encroaching watercraft.

主权项

1. A marine piracy prevention system for a marine vessel, the system comprising separate entanglement lines; and at least one submersible structure suspendable at an assailable face of the vessel, the at least one submersible structure being configured to guide the entanglement lines such that the entanglement lines stream proximate the surface of water generally aft of the vessel during travel of the vessel and are operative to disable a propulsion system of an approaching surface watercraft.