Dynamic Positioning-Drawing shows how the Deep sea drilling Project ship, Glomar Challenger, remains on station while working in water depths up to 20,000 feet. Dynamic positioning usersa computerized system of pulses from acoustic beacons on the ocean floor which are picked up by a ship mounted hydrophone array, fed into a computer, and translated into corrective action by propulsion units (tunnel thrusters and ship propellers) which automatically keep the Challenger precisely on station. The drawing also shows the flexibility of the drill string which weighs 400,000 pounds at a water depth of 20,000 feet.

• Deep Sea Drilling Project

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Deep Sea Drilling Project Records, 1961-1987

• Deep Sea Drilling Project
• Glomar Challenger (Ship)

• Deep-sea drilling ships
• Oceanographic research ships
• Ships--Dynamic positioning systems

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2020-10-28