OCEAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

January 14, Tuesday: Bill arrived together with Anglo's Mr. Brown. We prepared a sampling plan and Bill agitates against the Benota. I picked up the Combie and met a bum from Toronto who proudly told me het had just made love to a girl he met in church this morning, which act took place in the consistory room. At 13:00, I picked up Bill's wife Rhoda and took her to Mount Rhodes for drinks with Bill and Pete.

We then watched the sunset at Clifton, made a try to dine at the Portuguese restaurant in the harbour: closed on Tuesday...

On to Red Lion at 21:00, where I paid for a dinner including monkeyglands and wine. Bill was a bit coarse &/or tired, so we took the Bascoms to their hotel around 22:00. I still listened to classical music with Elizabeth at our boarding house.

January 15: Made some sketches for Mr. Brown and discussed the seismic sledge-hammer as a possible means of finding depth to bedrock. The afternoon was spent on a long discussion, where Mr. Brown was advised to tell Dr. Waters, the Chief Geologist of Anglo, about CDM's disdain for geologists. It was also pointed out that Borchers is going to Paris to purchase the Benota. At the moment, OSE's (and geologists' )standing is low and Mr.Sam Collins' (and engineers') high. He will sample the offshore bedrock areas with the "Emerson K", their exploration vessel.

Joe Wright has completed a report on bedrock gullies in raised terraces north of the Orange River.

John Hoyt (at left) and Joe Wright (at right) interpreting "Sparker" records on board of the "Xhosa Coast" NOTE: image taken from Willard Bascom's documentary : "Diamonds Under the Sea"

We end the day having drinks with Mr. O'Shea, whose son Desmond is going to work with us as a beginning geologist.