JOHNSTON ATOLL
F&SNO.

01114
USER

SCIENTIFIC

TITLE

Deep Ocean Wave Sensor, Type!
STRUCTURE /FACILITY NO.

DRL

(Tamarin)

SCIENTIFIC STATION NO.

None

BoD

x

None
FOD

FUNDING

AGENCY
AEC

($000)

PRE-GO
Prior Cost
POST-GO
Estimate

ENGR

PROC

CONST

TOTAL

FURN

Included in F&S No. 05027
TO BE DETERMINED

PRIOR YEARS
ENGINEERING

None required.

PROCUREMENT An AEC furnished 8 x 8 x 10-ft. transportainer stocked with
Type I equipment and spare parts is located at Defense Research Laboratory
(DRL), Santa Barbara, California.

POST-GO
PROCUREMENT

To be accomplished.

CONSTRUCTION The AEC furnished Type I wave sensor equipped installations

are to be located over a wide geographic area of the Pacific Ocean. The primary objective is to measure and record the amplitude and time of arrival of
long period waves over a predetermined period and to coordinate this data with

that collected at Type Il and TypelIII Tamarin sites.

The equipment will be

emplaced, after initial surveys by DRL personnel, at three deep ocean Sites

between JA, Palmyra, Canton and Wake.

The Type I recording instruments

will be put afloat in a small surface follower buoy, which replaces the skiff
formerly used at Type sites.

The three Type I systems will be replaced with a new system as funds become
_available. The present system includes a taut wire instrument buoy system
that is moored in deep ocean. The submerged instrumented buoy is connected

to electrical conductors within a polypropylene line to a surface follower buoy
that contains the recorders, batteries, and necessary timing devices. Each
installation contains a differential sensor, data logging system, and an ar-

mored cable connecting the implanted wave sensing transducer with the completely self-contained data logging system. All devices will be installed by
DRL personnel from aU. S. Navy ATF vessel that is to be outfitted and
partially loaded in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. The remainder of the
equipment will be loaded at Johnston Atoll.
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VOL I

April 1969

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