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1. REPORT NUMBER 



TN-1365 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO. 



DN244128 



3 RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 



4. TITLE (and Sublillc) 



GUIDELINE SYSTEMS FOR DEEP-SEA 

 DEPLOYMENTS 



5, TYPE OF REPORT a PERIOD COVERED 



Final; Jul 1972-Oct 1973 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORfs,. 



Francis C. Liu 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERC-,) 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



CIVIL ENGINEERING LABORATORY 

 Naval Construction Battalion Center 

 Port Hueneme, California 93043 



10. PROGRAM ELEMENT, PROJECT. TASK 

 AREA a WORK UNIT NUMBERS 



62755N 

 YF53.535.004.0L004 



n. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Naval Facilities Engineering Command 

 Alexandria, Virginia 22332 



December 1974 



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35 



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Unclassified 



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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 







Guideline system, guide frame, anchor mating, load handling, line entanglement, 

 deep sea construction, experiment. 



A guideline is a mechanical cable stretched between the surface and the 

 seafloor to direct a suspended payload to a seafloor site. Two series of sea tests 

 were conducted: one at the 600-foot depth and the other at the 4,500-foot depth. 

 The results of these two sea tests have shown that, after the lift line and the guide- 

 line are sufficiently uncoupled from surface excitation, single and double guideline 



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