Locality:

Island.

Personnel:

Bikini Atoll,

Enyu

Date:

Aug.

15,

Saturday.

Same 14.

Weather:

1964,

Hot.

Water conditions:

Flat calm.

Radiation level(s): McClin~-Maximum average radiation level was
0.03 mr/hr at ground level for total B-y radiation.
Beautiful sunrise with Bikini Atoll on the port side.
cial arrival at Bikini 07.42,

15 Aug. 1964.

Offi-

Anchored 100 yards

off Enyu Island at 08.01.
Brief staff meeting and then on shore for collecting--everything came back on board,

including glass balls.

Fish collection was made on the lagoon side about the mid-

dle of the island.
of species that

Lewis:

Two sacks of fish were picked up.

A number

live in the surf were obtained.

plankton sampling.

Two exploratory 15 minute tows,

one near the surface and one at 25 meters depth, were made a

few miles west of Enyu Island,

just inside the entrace sill.

Indication is that surface tows will yield sufficient amounts of
lagoon plankton for analysis.
Bonham--invertebrates on the lagoon side were mostly Grapsus
(3 collected)

and hermit crabs.

On the ocean side reef Holothuria

atra were abundant, about 1 every 5 sq. feet over most of the
1/5 to 4/5 of the way to the outer edge.

Over appreciable portions

of this area there were 1 or more per sq. ft.
was more than 1/10 this abundant,

H. leucospilota

and Actinopyga mauritiana were

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