A system for evacuation of personnel from a capsized vessel via a watertight and airtight sluice comprising an inner and an outer escape hatch. The inner escape hatch leads from inside the vessel to an evacuation room, and the room is provided with an outer escape hatch. The outer escape hatch leads out through the bottom hull of the vessel, and each escape hatch, is fitted with a mechanism comprising a sensor, a control center, locking means and a communication interface between the mechanisms. Wherein the sensors read if one of the escape hatches is open or locked, if the sensor reads that an escape hatch is open, it sends a message to its control center, the control center sends this message to the control center on the opposing hatch, the control center on the opposing hatch uses its locking means to make sure the escape hatch cannot be opened.
System for evacuation of personnel from a capsized vessel
2015-07-02
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B63B Schiffe oder sonstige Wasserfahrzeuge , SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS |
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