the problem of the boat and the cost of this one we were interested 
in. She will pass information to George in the morning and they 
will advise us accordingly. We have discussed this problem with the 
Captain and he feels that any wood or fiberglas craft will be 
extremely difficult to launch in heavy seas as the ship rolls quite 
badly and the craft is liable to be smashed against her side. Also 
the Navy uses these rubber craft for all types of operations and thus 
feels that they are most sea worthy. The rubber craft is smaller 
than the fiberglas boat we looked at with much slower sides and will 
be quite wet in most seas. There is also some danger of the wind 
flipping it over and in this case all equipment would probably be 
lost. There is also much danger to personnel in the water from 
sharp coral reefs and many sharks. The field party remained in town 
for dinner and talked at length at dinner about the boat problem. It 
was finally decided to take a chance with the Navy’s boat ati this time 
but to try to obtain two of them for the project. Telegram was sent 
to Washington advising them of this change. 
30 January 1963 
Party spent a couple of hours after breakfast unpacking and 
arranging equipment in aft hold storage spaces. All extra equipment 
was repacked in trunks to be stowed in the forward hold. Party then 
went into town, ordered specially made nets to be used with long handled 
poles for picking up specimens collected at sea and picked up frozen 
squid; made several other small purchases. One of the freezers purchased 
for us by Lt. Lembeck is defective and unsuited to our use. Project 
leader attempted to remedy this situation and ms unsuceesful. Lt. Lembeck 
