ENVIRONMENTALLY ENCLOSED SHIP COATING DEPOT

摘要

An environmentally enclosed ship coating depot can rapidly dry-dock and enclose a ship for blasting and coating and includes a fixed module, a translating module and a hinged module. The fixed module is moored abutting the shoreline of the site. The Translating module is capable of movement toward the fixed module and away from the fixed module out into the body of water. The translating module can be sunk to receive/lower a ship by filling internal water ballast tanks or can be raised to raise the ship by pumping the water out of the tanks. The hinged module is moored at an offshore end of the translating module. The hinged module can be pivoted open to allow the translating module to be moved offshore or can be pivoted closed to attach to the translating module to allow equipment to be positioned around an offshore end of the ship contained in the depot and to allow enclosure of the depot from the atmosphere.