en
tocality:
Aug.
Date:
Friday
Eniwetok-Rigili
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personnel:
Bonham, Palumbo, Welander,
McClin, Lowman, Billings,
Lewis, Sneddon, Williams,
& Donaldson.
Weather:
7,
1964
Showers
McClin reports a max. average radiation
Radiation levels:
level of 0.024 + 0.005 mr/hr for B-8& radiation.
Trip to Rigili was delayed two hours because of expected
missile arrival--called off.
no gasket on the front ramp,
"M" boat 379 had engine trouble,
really a pile of junk.
The island has grown over with a dense tangle of vege.
tation, birds swarm about in great numbers, new coral growths
‘
A few old scars remain but one would have
cover the reef flats.
to know where to look to find them.
Birds--noddy and sooty terns many,
bristle-thighed curlew,
and 1 reef heron.
noddy & 2 fairy terns for samples,
Fish--goat fish,
Lowman shot 2
no rats were collected.
convict surgeon,
jack were used for samples.
groupers and 1 large
A number of fish were preserved.
Plants on Rigili have made a remarkable recovery.
that had been badly burned were in full fruit.
merinda,
10
fairy terns few,
Coconuts
Messerschmidia
guettardia and pisonia trees were covered with a
tangle of Ipomea making it impossible to follow the old cutout
Sections
on the
island.