This article is about the aspect of offshore construction. For the area above the high-tide line, see supralittoral zone. For other uses, see Splash Zone.
In offshore construction, the splash zone is the transition from air to water when lowering heavy burdens into the sea. The overall efforts applied on the crane change dramatically when the load starts touching water, up to the point where it is completely submerged. Its buoyancy reduces the static mass that the crane has to support, but contact with the waves creates widely fluctuating dynamic forces.
Simulation of these changing efforts are necessary to correctly dimension cranes and lifting equipment. See for example DNV-RP-H103 (Det Norske Veritas recommended practices) for a mention of the piston effect created in the splash zone between two walls.
Special made Access Tools are often made for doing inspections or maintenance in the splash zone, typical down to 15 m depth. This zone is very dificulty to access for divers or remotely operated Vehichles (ROV's) due to waves and current. Rigging of equipment in this zone also needs special precautions do to the same. By using Remotely Operated Equipment (Robots) that holds on to the structures, work and inspections can be done. Earlier this Zone was looked at as unaccessible.
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In offshore construction, the splashzone is the transition from air to water when lowering heavy burdens into the sea. The overall efforts applied on...
A splashzone occurs when lowering heavy loads into water. Splashzone may also refer to the supralittoral zone, the area above a high-tide line. Splash...
The high intertidal zone borders on the splashzone (the region above the highest still-tide level, but which receives wave splash). On shores exposed...
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The supralittoral zone, also known as the splashzone, spray zone or the supratidal zone, sometimes also referred to as the white zone, is the area above...
supralittoral zone or splashzone: area above the high-tide mark, which is virtually a terrestrial environment. Occasionally gets splashed, but never gets...
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70 species. It grows in the intertidal zone, typically between the upper intertidal zone and the splashzone in cold waters of temperate oceans. In East...
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planks of timber ships. Its natural habitat is rocks and cliffs in the splashzone just above high water mark where it lives in damp crevices. It is also...
usually on rocks at or above the high tide level or just below the splashzone. Feeding occurs only at unusually high tides. "Chthamalus antennatus'"...
or salt in seawater. Concentrations of salt in seawater can vary, and splashzones can cause concentrations to increase dramatically from the spray and...
Littorinidae, the winkles. It is commonly found in the high tidal zone and the splashzone. The shell of this winkle has about ten coarse spiral ribs on the...
to the upper half of the structure, above the sea level, outside the splashzone, on which equipment is installed. This includes the oil production plant...
least specialised of the woodlice for life on land. They inhabit the splashzone on rocky shores, jetties and pilings, may hide under debris washed up...
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underside of mangrove leaves, on mangrove branches, and on sea walls in the splashzone. Some freshwater bivalves have very restricted ranges. For example, the...
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