CONTENTS 



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INTRODUCTION 1 



Description of the System 1 



Objectives of the Sea Tests 1 



Scope of the Study 2 



BACKGROUND 2 



SEA TESTS 3 



Hardware 3 



Guidelines 3 



Guide Posts and Anchor Blocks 3 



Guide Frame 5 



Guide Cones 5 



Mechanical Release 5 



Payload 6 



Winches 6 



Procedures 6 



DISCUSSION OF RESULTS 7 



Entanglement 7 



Guide-Frame Motion 7 



Deck Handling 10 



Motion Compensation 10 



Guideline Hardware 11 



Anchor-Mating Experiment 11 



FINDINGS 11 



CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 12 



Design of the Guideline System 12 



Operation of the Guideline System 14 



APPENDIXES 



A -- An Approximate Static Analysis of the Single 



Guideline System 27 



B -- Restraining Moment by a Single Guideline 31 



REFERENCES 34 



