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Figure 4-29.

Buoy for Mooring Floating Drv-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 mooringsfor 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:

(zg) 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) Reenvered, overhauled
AVR mooring off Fred.

(*) Planted three telephone type moorings
off Tare.

(b) Recovered and

(i) Planted one riser type mooring off
Fred.

replanted POL moorings off Fred. The northem buoy was
replaced with a telephone type buoy.

(c) Inspected four telephone buoys in Eniwetok Lagoon; lifted and replaced
three,
Planted

Elmer.

two

riser type moorings off

(e) Inspected three barge moorings off
Elmer. which were found in good coa
dition.
(f) Inspected Dry-Dock moorings and i+placed the buoy. Figure 4-29 shows tie
drv-dock moored and the buoy,

(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 Armvy-type. 585
ton harges fitted for the Zero Statiors. Prior to
the actual operations with these baizes. 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 varios forces acting upon it. The
harge remained in this area from May 1953 to
September 1953. As a result of this study, which

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