an advantage of disengaging the piling alignment funnels 28 1 28 2 from the rest of the template 20 a is that when the platform 66 is deployed in the unintended axial forces transferred to the pilings 40 1 40 2 will not be transferred to the template 20 a and or the risers 74 as such potential damage to the template 20 20 a and wellhead assemblies can be prevented by the optional step of decoupling the piling alignment funnels 28 1 28 2 from the rest of the template 20 20 a still referring to fig7 an example of a remotely operated vehicle rov 76 is schematically illustrated wherein the rov 76 includes mechanical arms 78 for performing functions subsea a control line 80 may be used for control commands that can in turn direct the rov 76 subsea so the rov 76 may manipulate the cup 52 fig5 and for enabling a remote and subsea decoupling of the piling alignment funnels 28 1 28 2 from the template 20 a it necessarily follows that the rov 76 can be used to decouple funnel 28 from template 20 of fig1 one of the advantages of the engagement of the main stud 62 is that disengaging the main stud from the threaded bore 64 can be accomplished with a lower torque than that might otherwise be required for couplings.