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SBX In-water Mooring Installation - Adak, Alaska

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SBX In-water Mooring Installation

Customer
U.S. Missile Defense Agency

Location: Adak, Alaska

Project Description
This project involved stabilizing a platform to serve as the “home port” for a Sea-Based X-Band (SBX) Radar vessel that is part of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The platform serves as a mooring station for the semi-submersible vessel between sailings.

The permanent mooring was designed as a conventional, centenary anchor leg system with eight legs. The legs consisted of eight anchors — the largest conventional anchors ever made — along with associated mooring chain and other tension members and buoys.

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