SURFACE OPERATIONS 



Normal Mode - The assignments of duty personnel during routine operations 

 are shown in Table 4, 



Command Van 

 Watch Director 

 Engineer (contractual) 

 Behavioral Observers 

 (2 day, 1 night) 



Dive Platforms 

 Chamber Operator 

 Asst. Chamber Operator 

 Support Divers (2) 



Base Camp (on call) 

 Operations Director /Asst , 

 Safety Officer 

 Diving Supervisor 

 Medical Officer 

 Utilities Technician 



Operations Dir. 



Table 4. Assigned Duty Personnel 



During each eight-hour duty period, the watch director was the designated 

 supervisor of all on-duty personnel at the command van and the dive plat- 

 form. He also supervised habitat operations. Supervision of the aquanauts 

 while they were in the habitat was the responsibility of the crew leader 

 who saw to it that they adhered to established procedures and operational 

 directives in force. The aquanauts planned and scheduled their own 

 activities. The watch director authorized routine excursions from the 

 habitat when conditions were normal and apprised the duty support divers 

 of the area to be monitored during such excursions. He served as a single 

 point of communication between the surface and the habitat, maintained a 

 current log of weather reports, and coordinated all activities affecting 

 the surface support center, the dive platform-decompression barge and the 

 habitat. Upon completing a duty period, he would brief the oncoming watch 

 director of the status of the operation and notify the operations director 

 of any important or unusual events . 



The watch engineer, provided under contract from the General Electric 

 Company, assisted the watch director with communications activities, main- 

 tained a log on all habitat related system and support utilities, and 

 was available to advise the aquanaut-engineer or watch director of any 

 malfunction in the habitat system. (See section on habitat engineering.) 



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