Figure 68. USS Nicholas (DDE-449) crewman holding sick rat Rongerik after CASTLE, BRAVO. Rongerik was manned only intermittently during the shot periods lowing these surveys. TG 7.4 personnel were flown to the island on [fol12, the same day. per- On 12 April a Navy patrol boat (PC-1546) carrying weather sonnel anchored in the lagoon. All personnel were housed on the bo =e 19, and 26 March to make daylight weather soundings and were removed weather personnel went ashore to make weather observations and operake Project 6.6 instrumentation, but only for short periods. boat, its crew, and its passengers departed. On 7 May On 14 May a rollup teafp the vis- ited the island. 234 gal