“…Hence, the mooring line is as resistant as its weakest link. Accordingly, the determination of the line strength must consider its real composition [4,9]. Assuming that the resistances of all individual elements of a line segment are statistically independent and identically distributed with a cumulative distribution F R (r ) [9,20], i.e., not taking into account any correlation between the line components, the term [1 − F R (r )] means the probability that the element resistance exceeds the value r .…”