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1. REPORT NUMBER 

 MP 3-75 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO 



3. RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 



4. TITLE (and Subtitle) 



FEATURES OF VARIOUS OFFSHORE STRUCTURES 



5. TYPE OF REPORT ft PERIOD COVERED 



Miscellaneous Paper 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORfa; 



Joseph Peraino, Burr L. Chase, Tomasz Plodowski, and Lydon Amy 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERfo; 



DACW 72-73-C-OOlI 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Raymond Technical Facihties, Incorporated 

 Two Pennsylvania Plaza 

 New York, NY lOOOI 



B31234 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CEREN-DE) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



April 1975 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 



113 



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15. SECURITY CLASS, (ol this report) 



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16. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (oi this Report) 



Approved for public release; distribution unhmited. 



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18. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 



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Breakwaters 

 Coastal Engineering 

 Offshore Structures 



Oil Drilling Islands 

 Oil Drilling Platforms 



20. ABSTRACT (Continue on reverse aide If neceaeary and Identify by block number) 



The growing shortage of suitable waterfront sites for industrial complexes, transportation facilities, marine 

 terminals, and recreation, and the increasing concern to preserve our natural coastal environment, and the continuing 

 need to obtain the advantages of such locations has forced a consideration of artificial means to satisfy this need. In 

 addition, the economics of larger-capacity, deeper-draft vessels have outmoded our present U.S. harbors and possible 

 coastal sites for these newer ships. 



This report provides a means of comparison for various offshore structures from the technical, environnicntal, 

 I and economic aspects through the classification and identification of some existing structures. 



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