UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON a APPLIED FISHERIES LABORATORY Locality__Rongelap - Kabelle & LabaredJ pblands sctober.21,-1955-—Friday—_ ~ Personnel__Bonham Lowman. Held Weather__Fair-5knotwindearlymorning Seymour Water conditions With max. of about 10 Jmots during day: from NNE Radiation level(s)_Kabelle-range open 14-0.4 m. rep/hr Operations: nN closed 3.5-0.1 Kabelle "i - _._-_Left_0830LSTanchoredinlagoon-near—Northeast—— PassageandaboutmilesfromKabelle.One6#rainbowrunnercaught wayin,justoffKabelle,Savedmuscleandliversample.anchored about400yardsoff_shore;__pushed_ashorewithrubber_liferaft.—Held-and- Lowmandiving.andtakineplanktontows.Bottom_profiletakenat60feet— and 10 feet with some algae. Sharks became over friendly while at 60 feet and when the dive at 30 feet was attempted the sharks were there to meet them so cancelled out the 32 foot dive, Plankton tows made with brand new nylon nets, one of each mesh size for 15 minutes. Jars with formalin weretakenashore,henceplanktonwasnotpreserveduntilabout3hours. afterbeingcaught. | | | _..__Taft,Bonham,SeymoursurveymeterreadingswithaBeckmanMX-5from RadSafe,Readingsoneinchfromgroundbothwithshieldopenandclosed._ _Seetopofpageforrange of values. ____So1l_samplesforNYOtakenabout200yardsinlandfromlandingon. lagoon,Atemplate,circular,diam13/16"andone-halfasquarefoot area was used,Firstsamplewastaken in an open area, levelground, with sample1. being the top 3" of soll and 2, immediately below the firet sample. at_bottom-of digging 8&2, the three inches Reading before digging was 12%3.5; Another ‘sample was taken in a similar manner about20feetawayinaprassarea._The readings here were 8 and 2, 0.5 and.O0,2 respectively. A few smail fish were taken by rotenone on ocean side near NE corner of YY2BBY - nnn ACOHCS4. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON DAILY LOG STENPe o 1} b