ho serious problems in voluntary physician recruitment. The ship contract specifically limits the scientific party to twelve people, even though U.S. Oceanography and PASO were informed prior to the initial contract signing that we would need at least eighteen habitable bunks for the scientific party. The inadequacies of this ship have been a matter of recordforoverayear, yet the Department of Energy ship procurement . I group have ignored our repeated requests for a meeting to resolve this very important matter. This ship is essentially a shallow draft, round bottom vessel, It is a converted Navy garbage scow, designed for harbor and off-shore work. The roll, pitch and yaw characteristics of this vessel in the normal open ocean Marshall Island winter oceanographic conditions are such that the vessel becomes almost uninhabitable. The most recent and dramatic demonstra- tion of the unsuitability of this vessel occurred during the recent whole-body counting trip to Ujelang. Tony Greenhouse, was the scientific trip leader, Roger Ray was the Department of Energy leader. Mr. Greenhouse's description of the trip from Ujelang to Eniwetok is a graphic description of characteristics of this vessel. He states that although they were not in a storm, the trip “had to be the roughest voyage in my recollection.' ' Two very serious problems developed during what should have been about 120 miles of routine open-ocean steaming. Tony states that the pitching of the vessel was so violent that the scientific party voluntarily restricted themselves to their bunks in the scientific berthing area. He states that they had to “hold on to the bunk rails to prevent being thrown from their bunks." "Everyone was seasick," On one occasion he had to leave his bunk but found that walking about 40' to the head was precarious. Because of this they just "stayed put." During this period, Tony states that the ship was making about_2 knots for a AM peerCel, 44 eke>> eel we fle 3 od