Lehner. P. 1964 Nov. 20 Binion wakened me at 6:00 A.M. and we started the at sea watch; we found the ocean calm as a lake with very few ripples and only long, low swells: we had begun our ten day journey on a course of 053 toward Honolulu; Roger and Larry were to skin birds for the duration while Binion and I, and George and Ken alternated three hour watches - one of us on the bow with a gun, the other on the flying bridge with the record sheets; birds seen were logged as usual with the following entries: species, number, direction, height and remarks; we sighted one whale off the port bow during our watch and George saw another after he and Ken took over at 9:00; we began seeing a great number of storm petrels of different species - several were shot at but missed; about 1:00 P.M. a Marlin surfaced three times off the starboard bow, and a short while thereafter a whale spouted off the starboard beam; about this same time the water took on more ripples as the wind picked up a little; at 1:15 the crew held a fire drill; there being few birds about, I directed some of my attention to the activity stirred up by the fire alarm and witnessed a great display of poorly prepared confusion; I had earlier lost confidence in my chances of survival if we were to abandon ship and now my confidence in fire prevention dwindled; about 15 minutes after the fire drill we encountered a rain squall which did a beautiful job of wetting down the decks - it was as if the "Great Fireman in the Sky" was saying, "sorry I'm late for the drill. hope I don't miss the real thing;" I agreed; the rest of the day was a blueprint of the days to follow - we watched and Roger and Larry skinned.