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eaw it goj it eiEtply exploded into nothing. We looked in all directions, 
went up and down the reef, returned again later to the sarc spot. It 
was gone, I wonder what it was, 
August 4- . Tuesday, Bank Holiday is over, and ovir non-perishable camera 
really was at ,the airport today. We received a phone call early in the 
TOrning, and Tom and I went for the camera at once, Three weeks to the 
day from the tiiK I sent It winging on its way. 
When we unwrapped it I found that It looked exactly as it had when it 
was out of eanmlsslon (I always expect things to have taken on a look of 
shine and polish when they have been in a repair shop) hut I suppose the 
insides of it nov are back in proper relation to om another. The sound 
of the nrotor wasn't any better when I started It either. But I jran a test 
roll of fogged film, and all things operated, I will not feel easy until 
I have idle results from our first rolls shot undersea. 
Spent the remainder of the day hooking up the 102-mm lenses and tubes 
and adjusting the parallax corrector and the focussing EiechaniBra. All 
things in order for a new day. 
August Wednesday. Ran off the close-ups of the drcxmid crabs today. 
The little fellows have been waiting patiently (l suppose) in their siaall 
cage for the three weeks the big camera has been out of business. The 
sea was rough, with the surge extending to the bottom, and when I pried 
the little fellows loose from their sponge caps they had a terrible time 
catching tliem again for they were constantly being rolled about by the 
push of the water. SometliBes one or the other of them woiild simply give 
