575 Market Street 



San Francisco, California 94105 



John Herring - Operation Foreman 



1253 Coast Village Road 



Santa Barbara, California 93108 



W.D. Edman - Division Manager 



P.O. Box 605 



La Habra, California 90631 



Initial contact was with Beth Johnke whom CCP had worked for on another job. 

 She was supportive of the program and put us in touch with John Herring. John 

 Herring did not want us on the platforms but he vjas willing to let us conduct 

 interviews and put out posters on Chevron Pier. CCP wrote a formal letter to 

 Division Manager, W.D. Edman, to confirm Mr. Herring's position. 



6.2 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PILOT PROGRAM 



6.2.1 Aminoil Platfonm Emmy (Huntington Beach) 



The pilot program was begun on December 23, 1980, at 0700 at the Aminoil 

 heliport. Workers on Platform Emmy take the helicopter out to the platform at 

 this time. On December 23, it was too foggy for the helicopter to fly, 

 and the workers were preparing to drive to the harbor to take a boat to the 

 platfomi. 



Two scientists from CCP and a scientist from NOSC interviewed the workers 

 before they left for the boat dock. The workers had not been alerted that the 

 interview program was going to take place, and the interviewers had to explain 

 it to them. A few of the v;orkers did not want to talk, but most were coopera- 

 tive. A few of the workers, especially the older ones who had been working on 

 the platform a long time, had good whale stories to tell. The tape recorders 

 proved to be '^ery useful in these instances. Posters and sighting cards were 



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