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That looks pretty good. It's a bit involved for a project that may or may not go ahead. Definitely useful if it does though, thanks. I'm really hoping to find a simple quick calculation of cable length and tension at the top and bottom but the more I look into it the less I think its possible...

All of the literature that I have looked at for towfish designs have used catenary descriptions of the cables. They also have a catenary shape with mooring cables/chains. I've done a bit of mooring analysis in school but the equations are a bit different since in that case the cable weight per...

Hello, I'm designing a towed underwater vehicle (towfish) and I am having trouble with determining cable tension at the length of the cable at given depths and speeds. I have estimates of vehicle drag at speeds up to 4 m/s and the vehicle weight in water is known. Its really just the...