118 



in the form of an extension of the Labrador Current, and this is the 

 farthest to the west and northwest of the Tail of the Grand Bank 

 that the ice patrol has ever found it in subsurface examination in 

 such large volume. 



PROFILE NO. 5~STATIONS 271 282. 



The section runs from station 'C" (see chart "A") eastward out 

 over the slope, across the zone of mixed water and into the Gulf 

 Stream, extenthno^ farther into the Atlantic than any previousl}' 



taken l)y the |)atr()l. The oast(>rly ilrift of the bergs which had been 

 the striking feature of the early season, slackened by the 1st of April, 

 and by the time this particular section was made no bergs were being 

 carried offshore into the northeasterly moving waters of the Gulf 

 Stream. Such a change in the courses of the bergs must necessaril}' 

 be foreshadowed by a change in occanographical conditions, which 

 in turn are bound lo show in vertical cross section. The above 

 stations were occupied April 26-28. 



Sail nit If. 'X[\iint'iv water >35 "/„o extended inshore of station 279^ 

 about 215 miles seaward of the slope. It had a thickness of nearly 



