Achieving high container through-put rates, between vessels in High Seas (a vision of HiCASS)

Oceaneering´s HiCASS team has established the feasibility of transferring ISO Containers between vessels at sea, in up to seastate 5 conditions, at transfer rates approaching that of shore side container cranes. This paper will report on Oceaneering´s HiCASS Phase 1 Quick Look Project, and will include the results of the nine Science and Technology efforts undertaken and their integration and successful demonstration at a model scale. The ONR HiCASS program supports the US military´s the US Navy´s Sea Power 21 Sea Base Vision by providing means for moving standard ISO containers between large vessels, lashed and fendered together, on the open sea. The two model scale demonstrations validated the controls architecture and many of the proposed concepts. The demonstrations will be described and video footage shown during the presentation.