1) Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a tethered buoy housing and deployment assembly adapted to lift and rotate a buoy from a stowed location in an undersea vessel to a position wherein the buoy can be released into an underwater flow stream and thereafter retrieved and returned to the housing.
2) Description of the Prior Art
The United States Navy has developed an antenna assemblies for submarines, in which the assemblies are adapted to improve communications at maneuvering speeds and depths. One such system is the Recoverable Tethered Optical Fiber (RTOF) buoy, which is deployed to the surface and recovered by an attached tether. Current RTOF buoy system is designed to fit within a relatively large working volume. As such there is a need for a buoy system which can operate in a relatively smaller space.