The marine internal waves have brought great challenges to the safety of deep-sea mining buffer retrieve/deployment operations.Based on the finite element method,a finite element model of the buffer retrieve/deployment operations under the combined action of internal waves and currents was established,and the Newmark method was used to solve the model.The transient response and factors,such as string shape,tension,equivalent stress,upper rotation and offset,at the moon pool position in the retrieve/deployment process of the buffer were analyzed.The results show that,among the factors,the equiv...