OCEAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
p.80 Ben Oostdam's Autobiography|
Friday, October 16, 1964: Early that morning we installed the fine-splitter which was troubled by several leakages. |
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We also experienced some dangerous waves while working on line 119, which we completed by 10:23. While we moved on to line 124 1/4 we received a radio report from the shore party that Pete's landrover had broken down and that the Hydrofix wires in Dunkle had been "bitten" through. |
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| More testing of the navigation system ensued and Klipbok was used to ferry materials and equipment from Rockeater to shore party. We also tested the vibrocore once again; work stopped at 18:30 and some Laurel and Hardy movies were shown. |
| Saturday, October 17, 1964: Completed line 125, tested the isotope and the hydrofix. Found quite a number of diamonds in 5 samples at 10m spacing. The vibro-corer got bent once more, and we "honored the weekend" by sailing to line 1819 where we anchored for the night. |
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Sunday, October 18, 1964:
At 09:45 we already completed this "parallel to the shore" line - and fouled the anchor. |
| Willie was in a good mood |
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Mr Fields was very active again and told some good jokes. |
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At 13:30 we started our large scale sample at line 117 1/2 to Captain Harris' delight. |  |