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intake pipe would be installed beneath it and OTEC-1 would be moored in 1,370 m (~4,500 ft) deep water off the Kona coast. The Ocean Energy Converter (OTEC-1) at dock on the Kona coast. Photograph: Ron Nolan. The OTEC-1 pipe bundle. The cold water pipe was 670 m (2,198 feet or almost 1/2 mile). The