Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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Lehner, P. 1904 7 July 24 - continued a lot of beautiful fish, a shelf of sharp rock, strong currents, and poisonous sea urchins; with this Paul leaped in and made it to shore without incident - Cam then swam in - Ken and I fooled around the raft a few minutes - Paul found a couple wedgetents so we decided to take the drum ashore which contained our equipment and field clothes; Ken and I set out; he with mask, snorkel and equipment drum, me with his glasses and a mouth full of sea water; by the time we hit the cove a large set of waves had started coming in - Ken released the drum in order to keep from drowning and I foolishly tried to push it on in - I made the mistake of trying to push the drum against the current coming out, the surf going to my left and myself going down; when the surf had finally pushed over near the rocks I said the hell with the equipment drum and tried to save my life; Cam hollered for us to swim against the surf and straight on into the cove - I had lost sight of Ken and decided to