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Side View Front View 
Surface 
Line 
Center Reel 
Side Reels 
<+———- Mooring Lines ———> 
Spreader Bar For 
Bridle 
Main Anchor Wire 
Fig. 6. Self-reeling submerged float. 
sea area. The wire used in recent work had an ultimate tensile strength of about 
260,000 psi. 
The above relates solely to the quasi-static stresses produced in lowering the 
mooring wire. Other dynamic stresses become important as soon as the anchor 
reaches bottom. The area presented by such a wire to the horizontal drag force 
may be quite large. For example, 15,000 feet of %-inch wire presents about 156 
