I have seen it

Not to mention that they may have to clean the hold after adding that bulkhead, slowing everything down. IIRC they do cleaning operations underway to save time a lot of the time.

Not when the whole ship is supposed to be sutonomous in s few years ...

Thanks for your interest Windswept-and-Interesting. The FibreTrac crane is a subsea tool whose principal benefit is the ability to deploy enormous loads to great depths without having to share load capacity with the weight of the deployed rope hanging down into the water. This is because the rope is neutrally buoyant in water and has become an actively protected lift asset, not a consumable (as with steel wire). Additional features are active heave compensation and active rope tension control for keeping loads completely steady near subsea structures when the vessel itself is being moved by ocean swell and waves. Our winch also handles all detensioning while a separate low-tension drum stores the rope. On your site you mention that scaling to very large sizes can only be done with networks/arrays of smaller kites owing to wind power density. I don't imagine even a very large turbine kite would require such a powerful winch, such long lengths of rope or heave compensation, though separate rope storage may be useful. We do develop engineered solutions for a huge variety of load handling scenarios and do very creative development work for new concepts, so get in touch with our Kristiansand division if you'd like to learn more!. My email for further discussions is: [email protected]

Washing with water :) or chemical

by hand

The whole design will be tested in 2022.