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Everything else on the installation supported THIS building. The Terminal Equipment Building, also known as the "T Building" or "TEB" was designed to be the high-security structure that carried out NAVFAC Point Sur's mission.
The undersea hydrographic cables feed into this structure, where data processing equipment & personnel would listen to the received sounds as well as view them on processed strip-charts to try to identify exactly what the source was, and the ocean was noisy! Not only did they hear surface ships, US Navy submarines, undersea lava flows but also 'biologic' objects such as whales, all could have been several thousand miles away form Point Sur.
Keeping in mind that that it first utilized early to mid-1950s era AT&T & Western Electric bulky equipment, the interior of the T-Building was mostly an open layout with a raised floor hiding the cabling. Audio was recorded for further analysis, as well as printed out on hundreds of strip-chart printers to be compared to known acoustic 'signatures' of specific vessels. As technology improved, not only did the equipment get smaller, but less personnel were needed to monitor and maintain it. In NAVFAC Point Sur's final days, the equipment automatically relayed the data to NAVFAC Centerville Beach near Eureka (now also disestablished & abandoned) as a cost-saving measure.
When the Navy shut down the facility in 1984, they gave the Terminal Building & control over it's associated SOSUS array over to the Naval Postgraduate School & Naval Oceanographic Lab in Monterey, so they could use it for mostly unclassified research. NOL would let civilian oceanographers use it to monitor whales, etc. but the undersea array was having maintenance issues, and because it wasn't being used for 'important' military projects, the Navy wouldn't budget the $$ to maintain NAVFAC Point Sur's hydrophone array.
I expect that whatever functionality the Point Sur hydrophone array still has, it is monitored & controlled remotely, by the NOL/NPGS in Monterey.
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