Locality:

Bikini Atoll--Namu to Boro

to Arji~Emon chain.

Date:

August 21-~Friday.

Weather:

Fair--increasing

winds
Water conditions:

Increased wave action

in P.M.

Radiation level(s):

McClin~-Boro Island~-The maximum average

radiation at ground level was 0.47 mr/hr for both B-y.
Underway at 0745 bound for the Bravo-Tewa crater.

The ship

stopped in the crater and drifted slightly where an oceanographic
station was taken.

Pumping started at 0800 and by 0835, 30 gallons of seawater
from one meter from the bottom had been obtained.

Also obtained

32 liters Of water from the bottom with Van Dorn bottles.

The

bucket dredge was put down and two good samples of bottom silt
were obtained.
Ship was underway for Boro Island arriving at 0905.

As

soon as the anchor was down all hands except Gary Lewis went ashore
in the copra boat.

Lewis took six 30-minute plankton tows

(2-5 m)

with #6 mesh, half meter nets from the pass south of Boro Island
and from near the reef inside Boro Island.
In going ashore on Boro the native crew of the copra boat

found a very simple landing by going about 1/2 mile north of the
reef working through the seaweed of the inner reef, between coral

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