Wire rope mooring

The cable, rising from the bottom, consisted of a (o) 4.5 cm (in.) wire rope (p) 45.7 m (yd) long attached to a (q) 4,536 kg (ton) sinker followed by a second wire rope of (r) 579 m (ft). This was connected to a more flexible nylon rope (s) 365 m (ft) long and (t) 13 cm (in.) in diameter. The nylon ropes were attached to mooring buoys which were chained to the barge. 

V.15] SHAPPERT, L.B., RATLEDGE, J.E., MOORE, R.S., DORSEY, E.A., Computed calculation of wire rope tiedown designs for radioactive material packages . 

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