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6 Aug 
Wirt? . William 0 . 37 
1963— At See 
I have "been r- t :^r oyed with his attitude from tine to time on this 
trip--if anything has gone wrong: in the past it was 3.1.'s fadlt. 
Both Boh and I .lumped on him shout this comment. He is supposed to have 
a man keeping- weather information and another getting the ship’s position 
every hour. We have asked him for days for this information so we can start 
working up the bird data. He keeps beating: around the bush about its all 
taken care of and don't worry about it and you don't need it yet. Then 
late this aft rnoon I found out that his man was only taking: weath r 
information every six hours, and we said we wanted it every hour. He 
also said that all our requests should come through Domke's office and that 
Trussel's office shouldn't be getting us orders or equipment or things like 
that. He does not appear to know his birds we 1 andhas done very little with 
us so far, though he has indicated a willingness to help. A couple of us 
have had arguments with him about the identity of a bird when there was 
no grounds whatsoever for his identification disagreeing with ours. 
'-'e started three hour watches round the clock with two men per watch 
and one men on the 3100*2400 , 3400-0300, and 0^00-06 )0 watches today. Mr. 
Bushman is taking one watch each day and this, plus staggering our five 
men, has given us some free time to catch up on notes and sleep and to 
make some more leisurely behavior observations on the birds. 
Between 2000 and 2400 today the weath -t deteriorated considerably so 
that when I went up for the 0-0300 watch we were heading rightlnto a 
20 '•'not wind from the the sea was quite rough, and waves were sending 
drenching showers up over the helo deck. e turned an all the aft flood 1 
lights (forward ones interfere with navigation) in hope of attracting some 
wind-driven birds but no birds were recorded. 
