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"JAPANYON" summer 1961 |
Ben Oostdam's |
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"JAPANYON" summer 1961 |
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Japanyon lasted from July 7 to 27. Much of that time, I spent working closely with Fran and Elizabeth Shepard, then in their sixties. He and I would shoot horizontal sextant angles every minute while surveying canyon bathymetry, and we called the results to Elizabeth who recorded them in the shipboard lab below. (read story) |
 Francis and Elizabeth Shepard aboard the R.V. "Baird", July 7, 1961 Monitoring Water Front of Tokyo Bay by Optical Sensor Maps and Charts of Japan virtual R.V. "UN Seahorse" Oceans around Japan Japan's total coastline=34,390 km NEXT PAGE - CONTENTS BLO fecit 20021001 corr.20021012 |
I also made a memorable SCUBA dive in the Sagami Submarine Canyon, where the current gently swept me backward into an invisible nylon fishing net, quite a scare! Furthermore, I spent several days as exchange fellow on board the R.V. "Umitaka Maru" |