-3days behind schedule and our medical consultants were due to arrive on the 31st of January, the prospect of holding the consultants for a two to three weck 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 ‘» pick the patients up on shore and transfer them to the platform. equipment. U.S. Oceanography had listed two whalers as ships Those whalers wore not brought with the ship to Kwajalein. a deficiency in the initial coutract. were located at Kwajatcin. again, They relied upon the NON whalers that ‘those two whalers, I had been previously informed by The Global Marine Dapk., woce in “bad shape." “unsafe” because OF worn steering cables. proposed’ using for patient Eransfer. harbour in Honolulu for about 24 days. One of them was declared ah These wore the whalors thot they I was avare that the ship had been in During this pertod of time, T feel an effort should have been made to make the novwossaury modifications to carry the barges. Instead, this time was utilized to install such "critical" items as a larye automatic ice machine which was nol required for the medical mission at all, and a gas barbacue grill. A second deficiency involved the rigging of protective canvas for the medical staff and the patients. In San Dicyo, during our preliminary 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 probltens for laboratory personnel and to the stafF in the open areas, Gs, cc medical party's dining arca was on the O01 level aft. Yhe A canvas fly had been