SUPSALV, was assigned over-all project responsibility. Prime contract assistance was pro- 

 vided by Ocean Systems, Incorporated. 



The units in the assigned recovery force and their primary functions were as follows: 



Afloat Units 



USNS MIZAR 



DRV ALUMINAUT 



M/V STAGEY TIDE 



R/V CRAWFORD 



Support Activities 



Boston Naval Shipyard 



Woods Hole Oceanographic 

 Institution 



Command ship, relocating, computer ranging 

 and tracking, and salvage lift. 



Under contract to OSI to provide on-site search, 

 physical investigations, and to act as a self-con- 

 tained system for lift toggle insertion complete 

 with lift line. 



Support ship for ALUMINAUT and secondary 

 plotting, tracking, and underwater communica- 

 tion center. 



Provide extra accommodations, and back-up 

 plotting and underwater telephone communica- 

 tions. 



Initial staging base. Provide industrial support 

 to accomplish fabrication and installation of 

 hfting gear and deck arrangement on MIZAR 

 under direction of on-scene SUPSALV repre- 

 sentative. 



Furnish R/V CRAWFORD, plotting and re- 

 cording personnel, and requested support ser- 

 vices to on-scene SUPSALV representative. 

 Also, function as communications and logis- 

 tics base and public affairs center. 



Salvage correspondence, and a listing of personnel and activities involved in the salvage 

 operation, are given in Appendices E and F, respectively. 



It was imperative that each step of the salvage operation be carefully planned. A detailed 

 preliminary plan was developed, supplemented by a number of alternative actions. Of partic- 



