76 COLLAPSE OF TEXAS TOWER NO. 4 



Captain Albers. DeLong Corp. built one tower, and it is still 

 standing. 



Senator Jackson. Have you had any trouble with it? 



Captain Albers. Not to my knowledge. 



Senator Jackson. On what basis, then, did you select someone who 

 had had no experience in this field ? 



Captain Albers. Moran, Proctor designed the one that is still stand- 

 ing; that was built by the DeLong Corp. Part of the DeLong scheme 

 that we incorporated was the use of their jacks. 



Senator Jackson. But DeLong did not agree with this design on 

 tower No. 4 ? 



Captain Albers. DeLong did not agree on this rotation, as we called 

 it, template in the movie, and the difficulties he encountered in marry- 

 ing^ the floating platform to these three legs at sea. 



Senator Jackson. Yv^'ell, is not this rather crucial ? 



Captain Albers. That part of the operation we got through success- 

 fully, sir. DeLong's principal design was use of his jacks that he has 

 developed, and they were very satisfactory and they were used on 

 Texas tower No. 2. They could have been used on Texas tower No. 3, 

 but the new contractor elected to use jacks of another firm. As a 

 matter of fact, he was forced to. 



Mr. Kendall. Captain, Texas tower No. 2 was not built as it was 

 originally designed ; was it ? 



Captain Albers. Yes, I think so. 



Mr. Kendall. Well, Captain, is it not true that it was almost a 

 process of design and construction at the same time? 



Captain Albers. That is correct. We were starting to build them 

 before we completed our design. 



Mr. Kendall. You would not say, therefore, that DeLong entirely 

 agreed with the design on Texas tower No. 2, would you? What 

 happened to the braces that were originally on No. 2 ? They are not 

 there now ? 



Captain Albers. No ; they are not. 



Mr. Kendall. Well, DeLong did not agree with the design on Texas 

 tower No. 2, and you actually designed it as you built it ? 



Captain Albers. I do not remember Mv. DeLong or his associates 

 objecting to the design on Texas tower No. 2. 



Mr. Kendall. You mentioned some objection that DeLong had. 

 Did he not also object to the use of the pm connections that had been 

 designed for use in Texas tower No. 2 ? 



Captain Alber. Not that I remember. 



Mr. I&:ndall. You do not remember ? 



Captain Albers. No, sir. 



Mv. I^NDALL. You gave us the depth of embedment of the three 

 towers. Would you give us the water depths ? 



Captain Albers. Texas tower No. 2 was 53 feet ; Texas tower No. 3 

 was 85 feet, and Texas tower No. 4 was 185 feet. 



Mr. Kendall. Texas tower No. 4 was by far the deeper ? 



Captain Albers. That is correct. 



Mr. Kendall. Incidentally, did you get those figures on the depth 

 of the piling as designed ? 



Mr. Edwards. We do not have that here, sir. 



