-3- days behind schedule and our medical consultants were due to arrive on the 3lst of January, the prospect of holding the consultants for a two to three week Period was untenable. We were forced to devise an alternate plan. That plan included fabricating a semi-stable 8 x 8' platform to be located under the gangway and utilizing Boston Whalers to pick the patients up on shore and transfer them to the platform. equipment. U.S. Oceanography had listed two whalers as ships Those whalers were not brought with the ship to Kwajalein. a deficiency in the initial contract. were located at Kwajalein. Again, They relied upon the DOE whalers that Those two whalers, I had been previously informed by The Global Marine Dept., were in “bad shape." "unsafe" because of worn steering cables. proposed using for patient transfer. harbor in Honolulu for about 24 days. One of them was declared These were the whalers that they I was aware that the ship had been in During this period of time, I feel an effort should have been made to make the necessary modifications to carry the barges. Instead, this time was utilized to install such “critical” items as a large automatic ice machine which was not required for the medical mission at all, and a gas barbecue grill. A second deficiency involved the rigging of protective canvas for the medical staff and the patients. In San Diego, during ourpreliminary talks, we agreed that a canvas cover should be rigged from just forward of the wheel house to the forward part of the well deck to provide shade and rain shelter for both the patients and the medical teams working in exposed areas. No provision had been made for such protection and during the entire survey bits and pieces of canvas and plywood were used in a haphazard manner to attempt to give cover. On all occasions the cover leaked, providing a number of problems for laboratory personnel and to the staff in the open areas. medical party's dining area was on the 01 level aft. 905} 12a i The A canvas fly had been