First port was Bermuda, where I paid a visit to McGill friend Debbie Butterfield - her family appeared to own half of the island - and I walked back across the other half. Second mail-stop with the "ARIES" off Bahamas- where we also picked up some latecomers see Chief Scientist Earl Hayes with fancy hat

That's when the real oceanographic work started: towing a thermistor chain, taking piston-cores, bottom-photographs and an occasional heatflow-probe handled by Clyde Lister. In retrospect, I think we hit the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, but thought the heatflow readings were erroneously high by a factor of 10....

NOTE: I worked with Clyde again off SWA in 1964 when we used his "LIZARD" continuous seismic profiler, and met him last in New Zealand when I was there in 1989 as a USIS "AMPART" ; I told this story over lunch - upon which my host pointed out Clyde at a nearby table...
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