CHAPTER IV, SECTION 4

Figure 4-29.

Buoy for Mooring Floating Dry-Dock

craft provided by other Task Groups. In Bikini
Lagoon it was necessary to place mooring buoys
off the sites of each established camp.
For moorings for large vessels, the assistance

of ships of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard
was obtained. The work accomplished for large
vessel moorings was as follows:

(g) Replaced northern POL buoy off Elmer with telephone type buoy. This
was replaced out of position and at the
end of the operation was placed in
proper position.

(h) Recovered two riser type moorings
off Janet, which were not replaced.

(a) Recovered, overhauled and replanted
AVR mooring off Fred.

(j) Planted three telephone type moorings

(b) Recovered and replanted POL moor-

(i) Planted one riser type mooring off

ings off Fred. The northern buoy was
replaced with a telephone type buoy.

(c) Inspected four telephone buoys in Eniwetok
three.

Lagoon;

lifted

and

replaced

(d) Planted two riser type moorings off
Elmer.

(e) Inspected three barge moorings off
Elmer, which were found in good con-

dition.

(f} Inspected Dry-Dock moorings and replaced the buoy. Figure 4-29 shows the
dry-dock moored and the buoy.
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off Tare.
Fred.

(k) Planted two POL moorings off Sugar.
WATERBORNE SCIENTIFIC STATIONS.
An interesting operation from the marine viewpoint was the work in connection with the
movement and mooring of the Army-type, 585
ton barges fitted for the Zero Stations. Prior to

the actual operations with these barges, a test
barge having a large billboard to simulate the

sail area of the actual Zero Station was moored
off Fox for the study of the reaction of the
barge to the various forces acting upon it. The
barge remained in this area from May 1953 to
September 1953. As a result of this study, which

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