OCEAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

p.79 Ben Oostdam's Autobiography

Thursday, October 15, 1964: Up at 06:15 to start line 118, which we finished later that morning.

We then continued testing the vibrocorer with concurrent dives from the Klipbok: the visibility was excellent so we used the U.W. T.V.camera allowing us to watch what the divers saw on the monitor in the hold.


All of this and more was captured
on movie-camera by Mr. Field:


We also tested the new fines-overflow manifold, the device to measure and sample the amount and composition of the "overflow" - by far the largest of the three fractions of materials the airlift brought aboard.
Finally, we sailed along the coast for additional movies, then stopped work at 18:00

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