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A depressor weight is a device used on tow lines in nautical applications. A depressor weight can be attached to a floating or otherwise stiff line to effectively produce a catenary geometry better able to mitigate shocks associated with towing and wave impacts.^[1]^[2]

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↑ United States Patent office google.com/patents
↑ L. L. Whitcomb (2000). Underwater robotics: out of the research laboratory and into the field. Proceedings 2000 ICRA. Millennium Conference. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Symposia Proceedings. pp. 709–716. doi:10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844135.

[1] United States Patent office google.com/patents

[2] L. L. Whitcomb (2000). Underwater robotics: out of the research laboratory and into the field. Proceedings 2000 ICRA. Millennium Conference. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Symposia Proceedings. pp. 709–716. doi:10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844135.

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