fine windblown sand. A fixed tide staff was erected nearby 

 with the zero set by simultaneous readings to conform 

 with a staff located on a small pier inshore and northward. 

 The staff may be read with binoculars from the new pier. 

 The gage was placed in operating condition and turned 

 over to the oil company's engineering office. 



"After departure of the survey personnel, the gage had 

 to be tended via boat but it was planned to have a catwalk 

 constructed in the future. Considerable wave motion was 

 noted especially with eastern winds. . ." 



Type of Tide 



The type of tide in the Kuwait area is mixed; that is, two high 

 waters and two low waters occur each tidal day, and a marked inequality 

 exists between both successive high waters and successive low waters. 



Tide Data Summary 



Ranges 



1. Mean range 6.59 feet. 



2. Spring range 11.12 feet (age of phase inequality is about two 

 days later). 



3. Neap range 1.47 feet (age of phase inequality is about two and 

 a half days later). 



4. Greatest range observed 12.00 feet on 1 December 1948. 



Datum Planes 



1. Mean tide level about 9.89 feet (tide staff zero at 4.1 feet 

 below the level of Mean Indian Low Water Springs). 



2. Mean sea level about 6.95 feet. 



Intervals 



1. High Water Lunitidal Interval 11.92 hours. 



2. Low Water Lunitidal Interval 5.92 hours. 



VII. Other (Waves, Color and Transparency, Biology) 



During the survey several other types of oceanographic observations 

 were taken. These are combined in this section because only a few 

 observations of each type were made during the entire survey period. 



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