Floating Platform: Rises and Falls with Water Level

A floating platform on the water. It is supported by pontoons, always maintaining the same height as the water surface, so one can touch the water from it regardless of high or low tide. It connects to the shore with a hinged ramp, the angle of which changes with the tide level, almost horizontal at high tide and steeper at low tide. The platform surface is non-slip wood planks or grates, with a low curb at the edge. Avoid: fixing the platform to piles, thus losing its ability to rise and fall; making the connecting ramp too steep to pass at low tide; adding large structures to the platform; completely obscuring the pontoons so their operation is not visible.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座浮在水面上的平台。它由浮筒支撐,永遠與水面保持同一個高度,因此無論漲退潮都可以從上面碰到水;它以一道有鉸接的斜坡道與岸邊相連,坡道的角度隨潮位改變,漲潮時幾乎水平、退潮時變陡。平台的表面是防滑的木板或格柵,邊緣有低矮的擋緣。避免:把平台固定在樁上失去升降功能、讓連接坡道在退潮時陡到無法通行、在平台上加設大型構造物、把浮筒完全遮蔽看不出運作方式。