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I drew these nice
plots
of docurentation.
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order now,
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a track, cutting back and we'll finish up sore weeks later
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near A, A-1, and we will make these zigzags on this sort of
Everything is very nicely in
May I have the next one, please,
it eventuates!
[Laughter]
We started, we went along very
well,everything was going pretty much on course except the
problem of doing oceanographic work from a destroyer has its
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never stopped this in the sea,
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This is the way
own problems.
But when we first started out we asked the
skipper, in case the WALTON, to let us go 50 miles this way
[Laughter]
"Stop?
I don't know how to stop.
I've
What will happen if I lie
You can't put this group. of wire lines
and rope lines over the side.
the propeller if we stop."
You may get them caught up in
Then he decided to stop.
Then
after he stopped he drifted some and then he quite lost his
course and he couldn't quite go back on course again,
If you just turn it off for one minute, do you have
room for ane story?
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FREMONT-SMITH:
At least,
One and a half!
[Laughter]
DONALDSON:
This problem of navigation really sur-
prised me out there.
It becoms almost--Bob, you have lived
with it for years, but it's so much better now than it was in
the early days.
In 1948 when we were out there all by ourselves,
all nice and lonely, we had one little ship that had no way of
producing water,
So very helpfully the Navy would send us 4
ship every four weeks with a new supply of water.
Tne water
would get pretty stale and they would bring us sone food and
some mall,
But on the back of this little supply ship was a
little box and in this box lived six Marshallese boys.
asked
the skipper
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you have these
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Stafford Warren
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