EAC 19, Rockaway, August-September 1967
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Mnn 07°52'N - 85°04'W SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION DIVISION OF BIRDS AT SEA DAILY LOG - E OBSERVERS: Date 27 AUG 67 Pg.# Ship Direction TIME SPECIES # DIR. BAND NO. REMARKS 0645 Storm Petrel 2 Oceanodroma Wilson's? Leach's? Brown Booby 1 E-BW 0845 Sanderling or Sandpiper 1 0850 Shorebird 0915 Oceanodroma (Leach SP, 25 Brown Booby 3 0945 Brown Booby 1 DW 1000-1045 Leach's? S.P.) 200÷25 O. tellings Rd B 1110 1 1500-1545 Snowy Egret 1 NE 1 Small Double Boobies 2 BE/NE [illegible] 236 dead - floated by sling; school of skipjack tuna went off to west; Green Turtle swam up to ship from 210°T then away to 280°-290°T in wake 200-300 yd SE. of ship Skipjack Tuna off to West floating in dense group on surface, some diving occasionally When ship slowed then - they scattered & disappeared. Marlin jumped 1 mi. S. of ship 5' Shark swam around vessel - came in from NE - circled ship then flew NE. small green turtle passed ship each alone just above surface 4 HR OBS SI-MNH-958-e Rev. 5-66