Escape Chutes Offshore

The Vertical Escape Chute is a device by which persons in immediate danger through fire or smoke, with no alternative escape option can escape, should the standard method of evacuation (TEMPSC) be unavailable. The escape chute is also readily employed as a primary means of safe access to a life raft when life rafts are the primary means of evacuation (normally unmanned installations, bridge linked multi jacket facilities etc.)

The Vertical Escape Chute:

Is designed to allow rapid safe access to sea within a chute system that provides a fire protected environment, thus protecting personnel using the system from sea based or sub cellar deck fires and heat flux.

The Vertical Escape Chute:

Can be utilized as a stand alone unit located adjacent to the life raft or can be supplied as a unit integrated with a life raft ensuring that persons arriving at Sea-level are adjacent to the deployed raft.

The Vertical Escape Chute:

Can also be utilized for many onshore applications such as Escape from the monkey board (on land based drill rigs), escape from crane cab.

VERTICAL ESCAPE CHUTE! How is it Constructed?

The Vertical Escape Chute consists of three separate fabric tubes inserted concentrically one within the other.

The Inner Chute:

Supports the weight of the chute users and is the chute through which the personnel traverses.

The Middle Chute:

Consists of a nylon material into which a coiled stainless steel spring offers structural rigidity.

The Outer Chute:

Is fire resistant to 600 degrees centigrade and protects the occupant from flame or heat flux as they descend to sea.

Deck mounted, stand alone evacuation system, can be mounted into a steel platform at the perimeter of the installation adjacent to the life raft.

To operate, open lid, pull handle chute will deploy and personnel can evacuate to sea level (approx 22-30 per minute dependent upon drop height). When used in conjunction with a life raft provides greatly enhanced ease of decent and survivability over knotted rope or ladder which many personnel working in the offshore environment will be unable to negotiate due to lack of upper body strength.

This unit is easily installed, maintained and inexpensive compared to other systems.

Floor mounted, stand alone evacuation system, can be mounted in pre-cut aperture (dimensions supplied by us prior to installation). Can be installed by client or we can supply and install using our own specialist fitters.

Maintenance, easily maintained, visual inspection recommended once per month, suggested test deployment once per year. RSSUS can provide a maintenance contract arrangement or client can follow recommended maintenance and test procedures supplied with the unit.

The basic floor evacuation system can be mounted into a steel platform, or into a concrete floor. To operate all It needs is a clear uninterrupted drop from the evacuation point down to ground level. Illustrated below is the Seascape system for offshore-marine applications for our full range and applications use the navigation buttons at the top of the page.

1: The storage-deployment device shown above left is the interface

between the evacuating structure and the escape chute.

2: The Escape Chute, can be modified to suite most lengths and the

height of the application.

Escape Chute Systems™. RSSUS offer a full range of Escape Chute Systems that provide a safer alternative for escape for offshore oil & gas applications, when the primary TEMPSC is not available and life rafts are required to be used to escape to sea. They can also be used as an alternative escape method for unmanned installations where a TEMPSC is not justified. These systems have been designed to provide the OIM with additional and alternative options for evacuation when primary systems such as TEMPSC or Helicopters have failed or not available.

Applications may include, but are not limited too: Fixed Single and Multi- Jacket Installations, Gravity Based Structures - TLP - SPAR - FPSO - FSO - Semi-Submersibles - Drilling Rigs. For onshore applications: Drill Rig derrick escape, Refinery Towers, Dock Cranes and Hi-Rise commercial /residential.