Enclosure (6) TO COMDTINST 16478.12
USCG SITE SAFETY PLAN/ATON BATTERY RESPONSE PROJECT
C.1.c. The dive platform will moor as close to the center of the site
as reasonable and safe. If safe to do so, one point of the moor
may be an Aid to Navigation piling. To the extent
circumstances permit the platform shall be moored such that
motion of the platform due to the effects of waves, seas,
current, winds and other conditions is at a minimum.
C.1.d. Prior to commencing diving, the Site Coordinator shall
determine the number of recovered batteries that can safely be
transported on the platform.
C.1.e. The divers will enter the water and search the bottom out to a
radius of at least 50 feet around the center of the site. When
a battery or batteries are located the divers will inform the
topside supervisor of the battery location, type and condition.
The divers shall move each battery to the underwater collection
point (normally the base of AtoN). Where a large concentration
of batteries is found at a location within the site, the
topside supervisor may elect to have the divers move those
batteries after they complete the search/mapping of the entire
site.
C.1.f. Only batteries that are on the surface or partially uncovered
shall be recovered. Any batteries that are entirely below the
surface of the bottom, so that the divers must dig to touch
them shall not be moved or uncovered since doing so may release
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