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Specialty Projects
Custom or modified
drag equipment available for private,
corporate or government projects. Some
past projects include seinars, large
vessels, mega yachts & Coast Guard
cutters.
Fiorentino’s award-winning staff of
diversified and highly-skilled drag
device developers and designers can
assist you with all your custom drag
device needs from small
projects to highly complex ones.
From consulting to designing,
developing and managing projects,
Fiorentino offers a
variety of services to meet your
needs. Our professional staff has a wide
range of expertise gained during our own
sea trials and work with NASA, BP, Coast
Guard and
other corporate, government and private clients.
We can manage your
entire project, coordinate work with
your engineering project manager or work
as a consultant.
We are experts at finding solutions to
problems and back up our work with
technical reports and other supporting
data as needed.
Our goal is to increase the success rate
of your project and help you complete
the project in a timely, cost-effective
manner.
For more
information, contact us at:
info@para-anchor.com
or call 949-631-2336.
Awards & Patents:
NASA GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
In
2009, Fiorentino and drag device
designer Zack Smith received a
“Group Achievement Award”
from NASA in recognition of their work
in providing exclusive technical reports
and consultation for the Orion
Spacecraft Recovery Project. Fiorentino
and Smith provided NASA with pioneering
research data on drag device behavior
that had never been published before.
The award recognized them for providing
“critical early knowledge on how the
capsule will behave in the ocean” that
would help in the rescue and recovery of
astronauts.
FIORENTINO PATENTS
From the mid-1990’s, Fiorentino’s
pioneering studies on drag
device
behavior has lead to an industry record
of 14 patents.
Utility patents awarded
to Fiorentino demonstrate the
substantial gains in technology our team
has made toward the performance and
safety of para-anchors and storm
drogues.
Boat Specifications.
Plese submit boat specifications
and include the intended use so we can
properly modify the parachute anchor or
its ejection system to fit large vessels
or your specific project needs.
Fiorentino is accustomed
to working on classified projects, so
all information you submit is kept
confidential. We will never sell or
trade our information to any other
entity. Need fast assistance? Call us
during normal business hours: Mon-FRI
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST. 949-631-2336
Sample Specialty Project
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PREVENTING CAPSIZE FOR LIFE POD SURVIVAL
Fiorentino was commissioned to develop a "Fast
Release
Para-Ring Set-Up" for this marine
rescue vehicle launched
by air. Fiorentino
anchors passed every test for this project.
"The
sea anchors that come with most liferafts
are
notoriously flimsy and inadequate. The Pudgy
uses a
substantial and ruggedly-built Fiorentino
para-anchor,
made especially for the
Portland Pudgy."
--David Hulbert, engineer and
president of
Pudgy, Inc.
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Sample projects
The following projects are a few samples
of the development efforts completed by
Fiorentino.Current and past project
reports and proprietary sea trial
reports available to legitimate
organizations. Fiorentino's extensive
sea trials are conducted and verified
through independent third-party naval
engineers, government agencies, or
governement certification.
STABILIZING A FLOATING
SPACECRAFT
Fiorentino's Shark Drogue
and Para-Ring Anchors are the only drag
devices selected to undergo extensive
testing for NASA'S
Orion spacecraft recovery system
NASA TEST REPORT
EXCERPT:
"During the course of testing, it was repeatedly proven that the (Fiorentino) sea anchor was
necessary for the success of the recovery.
First by deploying the (Fiorentino) sea anchor, the
capsule drift speed was seen to be reduced
by one half. Second, the capsule tendency to
continually yaw was greatly reduced. This
stabilization proved to be helpful to the
recovery forces when deploying the
floatation collar."
NASA
- Spacep
PERFORMANCE TEST/FORCE
MEASUREMENT FOR U.S. NAVY
SPECIALTY PROJECT.
FIORENTINO'S drag devices
were tested at the U.S. Space
and Naval Warfare System Center
for their ability to position
and hold anti-terrorist sea
barriers. Anti-terrorist
barriers stop explosive laden
boats from reaching an anchored
vessel.It works like this, a
boat hits the rope fence at 50
mph which causes the fence to
wrap around the boat. Force
generated by the crash releases
the encapsulated FIORENTINO
parachutes, stopping the boat
immediately. Amount of force
generated from the crash can
easily place 50,000 lbs on the
para-anchor. FIORENTINO'S
(modified)
PARA-RING-anchors passed every
test successfully.In this
Video,
drag device designer, Zack Smith
leads the scuba team connecting
the load cell to the six
Fiorentino Para-Anchors
positioned underwater. Load
cells measure the amount of
force placed on equipment. This
once "classified video" is now
released for the first time with
special permission by the
inventor.
AIDING IN THE
DEPLOYMENT OF OIL BOOMS
Fiorentino offers
extensive experience in supplying oil
companies with custom built drag devices. In
2010, Fiorentino assisted the BP oil clean
up effort in the Gulf of Mexico by outfitting
fleets with modified Fiorentino Anchors
and Shark Drogues.The equipment was
designed specifically to slow down vessels and to aid in
the deployment of oil booms.
NAVY UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER
Fiorentino was commisioned by the Navy
Undersea
Warfare Center to design a
specialized drag system
for deep
undersea deployment.
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