Monday, December 27 



Weather Air: Medium visibility. Low cloud base. High west winds 



Conditions at 33 knots. 



(Daylight) Sea: Eight-foot waves. 



Argo Merchant 



0800: Bow section rolled over. 



USCG USCGC's Bittersweet and Vigilant on scene entire day. 



Operations A total of 3000 drift cards dropped on three separate 



occasions. 



1600: First burning experiment completed. 



Overflights 



0900 

 0912 

 1324 



H-3. 



HU-16E. Mapping. Dropped data marker buoy. 



PA-23. Drift cards dropped. 



NOAA/USCG 

 SOR Team 

 Operations 



Personnel aboard H-3 and HU-16 flights, 



Other 

 Operations 



A^ISI overflight. 



Ship 

 Cruises 



WHOI Oaeanus cruise 20. Collection of suspended sediment 



samples and bottom sediment. 



uses white foot cruise. USCGC Evergreen cruise. 



Spill Plume seen as one large butterfly-shaped patch 110 miles 



Characteristics long and 10 to 40 miles wide, with furthest edge 140 miles, 

 Smaller patch 20 miles long and 5 miles wide. 



Coordination 

 Meetings and 

 Briefings 



11-15 



