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| Categories of installation buoys
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| Group: marine
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| Status: in use
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Categories of installation buoys (CATINB)
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Definition
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| Catenary anchor leg mooring
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calm
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Incorporates a large buoy which remains on the surface at all times and is moored by 4 or more anchors. Mooring hawsers and cargo hoses lead from a turntable on top of the buoy, so that the buoy does not turn as the ship swings to wind and stream.
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| Single buoy mooring
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sbm
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A mooring structure used by tankers to load and unload in port approaches or in offshore oil and gas fields.
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