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Underwater Lift Bag Tetrahedron Style
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The Canflex Heavy Duty Air Inflated underwater lift bags products are used world-wide for raising sunken objects, vessel salvage, marine structure stabilization, under water equipment transport, pipeline and equipment towing, and standby emergency buoyancy.

The “ SLE”-Enclosed bottom or “SLD”- Open Bottom lift bags are tetrahedron shaped units equipped with either a positive venting air relief valve or a diver controlled manual dump valve, respectively. The Enclosed bottom lift bag style also has a 98 mm threaded connector with an air tight cap.

Canflex Tetrahedron lift bags features:

  • Made of high tenacity TPU/PVC coated polyester fabric (48 oz/yd2).
  • All seams RF welded
  • Versatile and stable shape.
  • Polyester lift straps treated with special coating to prevent against UV degradation
  • Single lifting point.
  • ½” NPT fill port
  • Design safety factor 6:1
  • All products are Manufactured in accordance with ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Standard. Canflex (USA) Inc holds certificate No FM 517957
  • Canflex (USA) Inc has voluntary made the addition of IMCA guidelines to all Underwater Lift Bags (IMCA D 016 Rev.3 - June 2007). IMCA promotes improvements in quality, health, safety, environmental and technical standars through the publication of information notes, codes of paractice and by other appropiate means.
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UNDERWATER LIFT BAG "TETRAHEDRON STYLE" SLD (OPEN BOTTOM), SLE (TOTALLY ENCLOSED)

MODEL

LIFT CAPACITY

HEIGHT

BASE

VOLUME

SHIPPING CUBE

DRY WEIGHT

Kg.

lb.

m

in

m

in

m^3

ft^3

m^3

ft^3

Kg.

lb.

*

SLE/D-100

100

220

0.85

33.50

0.85

33.5

0.10

3.53

0.012

0.4

3.6

8.0

*

SLE/D-272

272

600

1.13

44.75

1.19

47.0

0.272

9.60

0.014

0.5

4.0

8.8

*

SLE/D-500

500

1100

1.33

52.50

1.42

56.0

0.50

17.60

0.014

0.5

5.0

11.0

NOTE: All capacities are based on fresh water, 100 Kg/m3 (62.4 lbs/ft3)

         1000 Kg = 1 Metric Tonne = 2205 lbs; 1 Short Ton = 2000 lbs; 1 Long Tonne = 2240 lbs

MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS: “High Tenacity Polyester Fabric – Polyurethane PVC blend coated fabric”

(*) 13.00 oz. fabric coated to total weight 48 oz/yd2 (1622 g/m2). Tensile Strength 924 lbs/in (8090 N/5cm)

All underwater lift bags are completely equipped including the appropriate quantity of automatic air relief valves with manual dump capability, lift harness of high strength polyester, carry/storage satchel or Marine grade shipping /storage plywood box.