J33-H-29 eo ® 16 January 1957 what not, and bearing in mind as much as we can imagine of the operational aspect of this thing, too, I think that the five day frequency under some circumstances is probably a little tight, operationally, not weather-wise perhaps, but ve will jast assume that the weather is all right, and not worry about that, someone else is doing that. But now there is a forty hour haul for an LSD from the assembly building on Enivetok. We can cut that Gown if we want to spend the money to put in an assembly installation at Bikini. But I think ve cut the time perbape from forty hours down to thirty hours. Alright, that's something, but against that is, vhat, $200,000 to put ir an assembly installation at Bikini? Is that worth it? Forty hours is a good time under normal circumstances. I don't know. There are times when the trades ere pretty brisk, and this might be worth the forty hours haul up there, you would be going up wind all the way, what do we know about that? Well, we don't know such about it. but maybe Dan, in their weather study will be able to make some estimates on the state of the sea. is probably feeding a barge through the channel. The unknown subject If it has to be timed with high slack water, then there must be some average delay resulting from that. I don't know wheat it is. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't, but it's probably under Simpson's consideration. The mooring of the barge is something we understand fairly well for the areas we have used. We can make pretty good estimates. What the situation will be at Taongi, we are just going to have to guess. Under the conditions proposed for testing, it's pretty clear that you do not require high precision in the moorings. I don't know how much it is. This saves you something, If you are trying to moor in a crater which is breached through to the open sea, the state of the water in there is probably not quite so pleasant as it is in the sheltered Fox-George region. Despite . the fact that you don't need precision, it may be a little bit harder to put down successful moorings that will hold the barge moderetely well. 5005586 -13- On