AQUANAUT DAILY ROUTINES 185 



TEAM ASSIGNMENTS 



Team 1. (A) 1, 2, 3, 4, 17, Prepost Strength and Touch Sensitivity 



Tests 



Team 2. (E) 5, 6, Clean up Team 1, Prepost Touch Sensitivity and A 

 No. 2 (Carpenter) No. 5 (Dowling) 



Team 3. (M) 9, 10, 11, Prepost Strength Test 



Team 4. (E) 15, 16, 17, 14, 13, Prepost A No. 1 (Buckner) No. 4 (Conda) 



A = Arawak M = Mk-VI E = Either 



NOTES 



1. BIB and BOB modifications 5. Camera fitting 



2. Change pulley and camera 6. Parts to A's 

 mount stowage 7, Sound test 



3. Condensate records 8. Barth - Envelopes 



4. LiOH cans 9. Gov. Brown Talk 



The two-man 0600-1100 watch section was awakened at 0545, and the preparation of break- 

 fast was begun. Reveille was held at 0700. Breakfast was over, and the cleaning up was usually 

 completed, by 0800, when morning quarters was held. Prior to breakfast, each man recorded 

 his weight on a chart provided for that purpose. Other physiological studies were done at this 

 time, i.e., blood and urine sampling. 



During quarters, the P.O.D. was discussed, and often changed because of conflicting activ- 

 ities on the surface, and occasionally because of headaches or other temporary indispositions 

 of the crew members. As far as I know, no man dived if he did not feel up to the job. 



An effort was made to have each man dive at least once with each of the other men in his 

 crew during his two-week stay on the bottom, although this was not always possible because of 

 the nature of some of the scientific work that was done. 



The close quarters that comprised our diving station made it very difficult to get more 

 than one team of divers in the water at one time. It often required ten hours to get five two- 

 men teams in the water during the day, even though the average duration of our dives was in 

 the neighborhood of 45 minutes. In addition, divers were always called back to the lab during 

 the lowering of equipment or supplies from the surface and also during the noon meal hour. 



The afternoon work period was similar to the morning work period, and was usually com- 

 pleted by 1800, with the exception of resupply activities which often required the services of a 

 suited Arawak diver until much later in the evening. 



Daily repair activities usually took place after the evening meal, as did continued physio- 

 logical and psychological testing. The diving lights burned out much too frequently and had to 

 be brought in, repaired, and reinstalled. An Arawak pump required disassembly on two sepa- 

 rate occasions; dehumidifiers needed modification to allow proper drainage, as did the central 

 conning tower area, the scupper drains, and the sink and shower drains. This work was neces- 

 sitated by the list and pitch of the lab, which was just outside the limits of the slope of all our 

 drain lines. 



Commercial TV was available to the crew each night, but usually everyone was too busy to 

 pay much attention to it. A phone line to the shore was also available; but, with few exceptions, 

 it was not utilized very much for outgoing calls. 



