' 56. v CTG 7.3 has made a detailed report of the conditou of the bikini buoyare aystem to the Navy Hydrographic Office for refer= ence use in preparing the lagoon for future oper:tions, 57. Consider..ble time and expense went inte the provision of ade: juate Mooring buoys at both atolle, particularly at Bikint. There a fall set of small oraft moorings wus planted >efore the operation began, slong with three telephona equipped large ehip scoring buoys, During the operctional perlai the small craft moorinrvs rere pub te full use, in fact ore of then would not heave heen eniss. , Up antl the first shot the large buoys ot Bikini vere used regularly by RELLE GROVE and BAIRONO, and by ESTZS when she wis at Bikini. BRAVO little use was meade of the telephone buoys. After The telephone ejuipment was rendered inoperative by the shot, and the frequent sortics and unshheduled sovenents to nhich the large ships were aubject made anchoring more practical then mooring. AN/TRC radio telephone equip= ment and other voice radio circuits effectively substituted for the loas of the telephone system, axcapt that they lecked the security of the telephone systeax. The large diip moorince at Enizetok were little used since after BR:VO the ships were seldom there lous enough to warrant mocring. The in—cort DOK at Snieetckh was the prinsiral user of the telephone buoys there, regnlarly mocrins to one off Eni wetok island. (|