 "Naubuc" was assigned to implant and lay cable off Bermuda for the Long Range Acoustic Propagation Project (LRAPP) "Test Bed" three dimensional suspended array that took place in December 1970.The array reused components of the earlier unsuccessful "Sea Spider" acoustic experiment array that was attempted in 1969 north of Hawaii in the Pacific.The Bermuda array reused "Sea Spider" components and was essentially the same trapezoidal taut cable configuration anchored in of water with the horizontal component suspended below the surface.