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Gould, E. J.
1963-- At Sea
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September 5, 1963--Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands
This is the second trip of the Johnston Island grid survey. There are five of us from the Smithsonian aboard, Dr. C. Ely, myself, Robert Fleet,
Roger Clapp, and Pat Elliot. The ship left its birth at 0800 and proceeded
toward the Harbor entrance.
There are two graduate students from the University of Hawaii aboard
this time to work on a special marine biology program. So far things have been quite hectic. We have had many problems about the radar and camera
attachments. Evidently the camera that Dr. Ely brought with him will not work.
So he picked up a movie camera last night and we are going to try to take manual pictures of the radar and correlate them with sight observations. It is not at all satisfactory, but I guess it's worth a try.
Had a lot of trouble about getting the University of Hawaii boys set up. Nobody had been informed (at least fully and explicitly) about the special needs, especially the winch. Therefore it was not taken care of. Evidently they are going to try using one of the ship's regular winches and make all sorts of adjustments.
0835--Entrance to Pearl Harbor
0858--1 Imm. Brown Booby? heading W 1-5'
0914--1 Tern sitting on log in water
0915--1 Frigatebird ad heading E 75 plus/minus 25 '
0943--1 Bonin Island Petrel heading SW 450-600 yds.
0950--1 Tropicbird? heading N 50-75 feet all white
1001--1 Wedge-tail he ding NE 650 yds.