... Diego State University (1,2,3) for Kennecott Exploration, Inc. for the purpose of developing soil-machine interaction criteria for the design of a deep sea manganese nodule collector system. Based on the results of a large number of model tests, a similitude analysis was made consistent with soil...

... of the art limited to tow tank-tested devices. In early 1973, a program was initiated by Kennecott Exploration, Inc., to develop a collector vehicle system which could be lowered from a suitable support vessel to the bottom of the ocean and then towed to collect nodules. The KEI Model V collector vehicle...