Fig 11 18d 



Virgin Islands, ALUMINAUT carried 2,300 

 feet of V2-inch nylon line coiled about a pipe 

 protruding from one side of a wooden disc 

 (Fig. 11.21). The array was visually located, 

 and the bottom of the coiled line was at- 

 tached to the array line with the manipula- 

 tors. The beehive-shaped coil was then 

 placed on the bottom and ALUMINAUT, to 

 which the opposite end of the line was at- 

 tached, surfaced and the line paid out. When 



ALUMINAUT surfaced the load was trans- 

 ferred to a surface ship which subsequently 

 hauled in the array with five current meters 

 and one acoustic release mechanism. Grap- 

 neling for the lost array was impractical 

 because of several telemetry cables which 

 traversed the bottom in the same area. A 

 similar approach was used by DEEP QUEST 

 to recover a Navy fighter plane from 3,400 

 feet off San Diego in 1970. 



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