A cable laying vessel and method are provided for laying an underwater cable, the cable laying vessel including a floating hull with a bow, a stern and a deck. The hull has a forward shipping direction. The cable laying vessel further includes a cable handling installation that includes a cable chute at the stern, and a cable quadrant and a quadrant manipulator for the cable quadrant on the deck. The cable chute includes a convex curved bottom wall with a bottom wall apex where the bottom wall faces furthest away from the stern. The bottom wall continues as from the bottom wall apex downwards back towards the stern. The cable chute includes a left outer guide wall and a right outer guide wall that extend under an angle with the bottom wall and that flare away from each other in a downward direction.
CABLE LAYING VESSEL
2025-02-20
Patent
Electronic Resource
English