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this shelf could be macothec com to permit toe beac.’ -- of an LCV at
t is point on low tides to discharge aquirmment necessary to boild 6
mole as planned.
The botton on the ledse is “sirly “lar and sandy
with a mixture of smooth surfeced coral rogers,
this ledre averares abort two feet al sero cide.
calm considerinrs the rest of “oe ‘sland.
“he -axivun water over
Nie enot is facriyv
Reconnencd blastins about one hindred faet of the © oe agra
ledre to a width of one twrdred Peet ard constr ec mle
of the
@ ranaine
der of the way (about 350 “t.
Site Yokes:
Site Yoke has one possible
entrance.
Fis is on the la»
Foon e1de and in the lee -f te reef jutting ont fre + @ north-east
end of the islend.
The chaemel rims in a north sr sorth direct’ on.
The channel is abcut five hundred “aet lon.
feet averere about five feet at saro tide.
The o ter tro huncred
In this
two hundred foot
lencth of channel there are about thirty emal)] cora’ heads with a
controlling depth of two feet at sero tide.
IC operators ha-e
picked their way hetween these comal heads o1 @ three “cot tide to off
load a Dukw but have severe] it -eas ineured dave 2
backine away to head out «Ff -+e navel.
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their erat in
Recommend the orter two hundred “eet of tris cha-ne
© 'tlas ed free of
coral heads
o a width of aboot me CWuindred Peet e+
cle se ecrsirice
ted the remaicder of the way, abort tourmeehucerad cre,
Hquinwe:t for
the ~ole cocstruct’ on ‘ob woul’ nave to be landed “a ee LOY at lore
tide on the reef at the Rasterrn e-d of tie
sland,
Ts enat wore
have to be clesarec of corse] heads for abort seventy. ‘-e feet. A rela=
tively calm day would be required “or
of beachine on the ocean tide of the
ticable. ‘Yind and seas weeld i tue
siderable bleetinr would be necesrary
tnis heacr
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“he possibility
sland was sr eveé a
found donrace
LOU on the ccerhoeré veay and cone
to caeeh vf > mth solid rock beach.
From the point of beachiun-, s tee equinprent
wa .¢ ts ©
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hundred feet cver rourh coral ‘e@ads with dee> wa
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