CONTENTS 
Abstract . 
Introduction 
Historical Spavananadl 
The Environment 
Types of Moorings 
Taut-Wire Mooring Conmenans 
Surface floats 
Spar buoys 
Pennants and Penner eal 
The submerged float . 
Mooring cables . 
Anchors 
Fittings ‘ 
Bottom-detecting devices 
System Design . 
Acknowledgments 
Appendix : 
Shipboard fincfeollastorne : 
Accessory handling equipment 
Spooling winch . Bo ata 
Work davit . 
Work platform . 
Skiff-retrieving ramp 
Navigational and accessory equimnant 
Mooring techniques : 
Preparation for laying the mooring . 
Mooring procedure 
Servicing instrument stations . 
Anchoring problems . 
Retrievability of eiimerced: float 
Corrections to echo-sounder vipers for comm relecins 
Taut-nylon mooring 
Basie computations for dene Roos a on the roorine 
Steps in the graphic solution of a deep-mooring Bs aaeunation! 
Caleulation of restoring forces on a surface float 
Literature Cited 
TABLES 
Comparison of cables . 
Velocity conversion factors . 
Holding power of bottom 
Comparison of anchors 
Drag coefficients : 
Sample calculation of forces 
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