16 January 1957
J3-H-29
where: you g€0 with the first shot and how much of the reef is breached.
And whether you could get inside with the LSD.
GIBBINS: Yes.
CURRY:
Is Ieaecs prepared to hezard any guess about the exchange rate, if he is
not eble to make the eurvey?
GISBINS:
Does he have any feelings about that?
Well, all I can say about that is that -- oh, one more thing.
go inte this pert of it, too.
I had better
In connection with this business of what
happens when you breach the reef, in view of the fact that you want to stay
out to the edge of that crater before you step over it and block the edge
of it inside with a second shot.
We explored, in a very preliminary way
with the Richuond University Field Stetion, the feesibility of a model
otudy.
We eskea them these questions:
coulé be obcained from model stuty?
Corzld you make @ model accurate enough
to give you any facts cr invornaticn?
questions.
Do they feel that any information
Off hand, they wouldn't enswer the.
They said that they would not guarantee anything.
They recog-
nize that tais vertical mixing thing is a hard thing to dig up without
knoving anyching about the conch.
But when we told them that there was &
merine survey being contemplated, they asked us to be eble to put one man
et work on reking @ feasibility etudy of the Peasibility of ea model.
Which
is the right vay to approach it, believe me, end we agreed thet thie was
ali right.
The Laboratory is willing to poy for this one guy.
Iseaca had
requested that after the marire eurvey, they get a photo survey of Taonzi
up to date and when ve startec teiking to the people at the Richmond Field
fiatian, they said they would like to heve this survey meade before Isaaca
goes sut so that if there are any points of information that Iseacs could
pick -p for them, that they cculé discover from the photo survey, they
Could ds it at that tine.
end trey beve started that.
COPIEDDOE
L250 ka
So, we asked the Tésk Force to get such @ survey,
Whether they cen get it +o us in cclor or not
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