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January 1965 BCF TOWNSEND CROMWELL Cruise
The January 1965 TOWNSEND CROMWELL Cruise from 5 January to 24
January was the eleventh of a series of cruises conducted by the U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries covering a
fixed grid to the east of the high Hawaiian Islands for the purpose of
determining variations in the water types and currents of this area.
This was the tenth cruise on which Pacific Project personnel have
taken part, maintaining daily sunrise to sunset bird observations.
Observations on this cruise totalled 214.4 hours. In addition Project
personnel aided in recording weather observations and in taking bathy-
thermograph casts. Project personnel aboard were Patrick Gould and
Warren King.
Warren King
Research Assistant
Pacific Project