USCGC VIGILANT CRUISE 

 DECEMBER 24-25, 1976 



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Elaine Chan, of the NOAA/USCG SOR team, was lowered to the USCGC Vigilant 

 from an H-3 helicopter on December 24, 1976. Ms. Chan brought Sterile Bag 

 Samplers and sampling bags, and instructed the Commanding Officer, Cmdr. I. 

 Cruikshank, and the MSO in the operation of the samplers. From 1245 that day 

 until 0845 on Christmas Day, personnel from the Vigilant obtained 24 water 

 samples. The samples were taken in pairs, one each at approximately 1 to 2 

 feet below the surface, and the other at about 10 feet below the surface. At 

 0900 on December 25, 1976, all 24 samples were flown by helicopter to the 

 Coast Guard Cape Cod Air station. Wirt-h -th e e^teep^oa— ef two -sam pl eG , -whi-&h 

 w e r e i -nfeer-ee pted by USCG l ^gal— fiegc onnoL , the samples were picked up by NOAA 

 personnel and kept in frozen storage until transported to the USCG R&D Center 

 in Groton, Connecticut, for analysis. 



The sampling stations (two samples per station) are listed below. 



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(Two Bittersweet samples were so intercepted Ed ) 



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