-6REPORTS OF RAIN DC RINC BRAVO FALLOUT Transcripts occurred briefings of post-detonation for a short time after suggest Bravo was detonated. fishing ship, No. 5 Fukura Maru (Lucky Dragon), the exclusion light rain zone, noted that the initial or self-induced probabIy drizzle.’ 17] rainout, a natural Another natives of Rongelap on their ship was accompanied that this some. two or more hours after They lived Bravo’s of deto~ation; the it was was made by a group of Rongelap ii Rongelap that it “rained a little” Atoll, and stated was a continuation by “a on the debris cloud. of rain during Bravo fallout [8] rainout The crew of the Japanese is unlikely evacuation. self-induced while fishing ciown’,vind just outsi6e fallout rain system superimposed report after It that Village, on the southern during the efternoon part of March lst. Another interview been on Rongerik survey ship’s captain mentioned wes not specific days at Utirik at about at Majuro disclosed disclosed noon on March and arrive radiation that operator [8] who had “rain commenced about where or when. possibly Bravo debris at about 100 mr/h. Lines, left 2, 1954. Kwajalein at 0945 The ship left Utirik of 10 to 30 mr/h on March 7. The that he had encountered fallout, (when the radio at ?dajuro Atoll on March 7. A radiological readings rain squalls during his voyage, but It appears accompanied or while in harbor at Utirik. earlier estimated about Bravo approaching Force for 30 minutes.” a few days later) encountered Air the S. S. Roque, owned by Micronesia LST and arrived (apparently en American Atoll prior to evacuation 2100 [LST] a~d continued Finally, with certain by rain that the S. S. Roque shower% either while If 10 mr/h are “grown backn to five or six cloud passed near Utirik), the dose rate is