- - aumt ZHWA day operations follawed tho, sume pattorn of previous tosts. One of the early missions, involving, the land cable sample recovery, ran into difficulty when the wire cable becane smgyed sonarhore in the vicinity of the cruter. These sanplos were of considerable scientific value aml, gince it wan found to be Impossible to recover them by reeling in the cablo by winch, a jeep was utilised and thus all but one sample was finally recovered, In the poriod of lime involved in this mission it becamo ayywrront that tho selentists aml monitors assipnad to the task would goon axceed the allowable radLlation axposure tolerance, To neet this situation a quick on-tho-spot roausiauent of personnel then on shore porformin: other missions involvisy, lesser radiation intensitias was mide, Thus the maxim amount of work was accanpLished by utilising these people to the Linit ef their axposure allarance, The lon: narrow shape of ZENRA island, wath ZERO point lecatead at one ond, rude the island survey easier than it had been on previous tests. Admiral Parsons paurticfpated in this survey which was completed on D-plus-l by a arnll purty. They also colloctal soil samples at mach blast foot ing \ for the purpose of determining the oxtent of contamination, Ry Z-plus--] it was apporent that the south end of CERO island woull possibly be raidy fer the establishmant of monitar ;uantis and routine RadSafe control much sooner than had been practical on provious Lests. In view of this possibtlity an acceleration of the entire operation was Cforosecn. oO ee Cawmater Hof fran departed on 2 plus~-1 for the United States to Lake. - up his new dutles as Chief of tha Radiological cofety Divisten far the wy ‘ Bureof Ships. mig 4 wee: ed _ phe sate geen YAP ee ee Tete sha ay Od oe _r stot > s. so¢ vo. od De a ee we ete ay “Nate Seer oT tent e 7 r ; ey‘sio sF Ce eae Pre Sree —'S « .- ; of : path es “wa de : Se ~ sa es 8 ee Pee ee wt : ny a~ AS ez2 SatSoL. * vite At er oN Se a 7. . o hah .