for the Vfc rd Boom. The food is quite a hit hotter than that which. we 
had on the first trip. Ilveryone is helpful and cooperative though 
maintaining themeelfs has a separate entity which in I feel 
is hotter for our work, while they ere corgail and welliig to help 
they leave us to do our work end we try to go ghaut it with out 
interfering in the routine of the ship. How ever there is not 
the feeling "if it doesn’t fit in with the ships routing we can’t do it" 
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e.nd though we lose a hit of conrad ship hy this attitude I believe that 
is improve the eff*ci©ncy of the work end create a better iwnege for the 
Navy. 
ife experienced a mechanical feller about 1700 hours today end 
did not get under way again till almost midnight a hearing burned out 
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in the engine? an as a. replacement w-s not aboard they had reshape the 
had one and put it hack, this has put us about five hmrs behind 
achedul. 
I believe that it will he neccesary to asign four people to these 
srsurveys as it will he quite impossible for two to keep ur> the watch 
it is really neccessry to have two on duty *11 the time. There is too 
much ocean out there for one man to keen track of. Three hours is 
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about the maximun one person can do at a time in the heat of the sun, 
the wind, the glare off the water before becoming graggy and sleepy 
we have been running two hour watchs with two men per watch, from 
060') to 2400 hours. 
The wetc* divisions of the ship have had a little pep talk 
on bird watching and V ev« a few of our guides to look though. Though 
I must say there was little imthus!asum in the session I briefed. Th^re 
have been Instructed to wake one of us during the night if any birds 
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