Underwater storage vessel for fluid explosives and combustibles

Claim 1

IN AN UNDERWATER STORAGE VESSEL, FOR USE IN STORING LIQUIDS HAVING A SPECIFIC GRAVITY SMALLER THAN THAT OF WATER AND BEING SUBSTANTIALLY IMMISCIBLE WITH WATER, IN COMBINATION, AN ENCLOSURE STRUCTURE MADE OF CONCRETE SCALED AGAINST THE ENTRY OF WATER, AND BEING OPERABLE TO FLOAT AND, RESPECTIVELY, TO BE SUBMERGED AT REST BELOW THE WATER LEVEL AND INCLUDING GROUND ENGAGING MEANS FOR SUPPORT AT REST ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BODY OF WATER, CONDUIT MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID STRUCTURE AND EXTENDING FROM THE INTERIOR TO THE OUTSIDE THEREOF AND INCLUDING VALVE MEANS OPERABLE FOR THE PASSAGE OF FLUIDS INCLUDING PRESSURIZED AIR AND SAID LIQUID AND WATER, OPERABLE TO CONTROL AND TO VARY THE RATIO OF WATER, LIQUID AND AIR, AND THE PRESSURE, ON THE INTERIOR OF SAID STRUCTURE AND WHEREBY SAID LIQUID AND WATER MAY BE FILLED INTO SAID STRUCTURE AND BE STORED IN SUPERPOSED DIRECT CONTACT THEREIN AND BE DISCHARGED THEREFROM, SAID STRUCTURE BEING ELONGATED HORIZONTALLY AND COMPRISING A ROOF SECTION TAPERED DOWNWARDLY CONICALLY FROM A CENTRAL TOP PORTION INCLUDING AN APERTURED RAISED PART ABOVE SAID TOP PORTION, SAID CONDUIT MEANS INCLUDING HOLLOW TUBULAR ELEMENTS EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM SAID STRUCTURE BEYOND THE LEVEL OF THE BODY OF WATER SURROUNDING SAID STRUCTURE AND OPERABLE TO PASS WATER, LIQUID, AND AIR, SAID VALVE MEANS COMPRISING SOME ELEMENTS FOR PASSAGE OR AIR AND OF SAID LIQUID DISPOSED ABOVE SAID LEVEL AND RESPECTIVELY, OTHER ELEMENTS FOR WATER PASSAGE BELOW SAID LEVEL, VERTICAL PERFORATED PARTITIONS DISPOSED ON THE INTERIOR OF SAID STRUCTURE DEFINING A SERIES OF INTERCOMMUNICATING STORAGE CHAMBERS FOR WATER AND LIQUID ABOVE THE WATER AND OPERABLE TO RESTRAIN AGITATION OF THE WATER AND LIQUID IN SAID STRUCTURE.