'■! 1 rt ? . V/iHism 0. 
196 ? — At Sea 
41 
1977 
Bulwer’s Petrel 
one headed NW 
2000 
sunset 
- 
L 12°59' > m°28* 
2007 
Bonin I. Petrel? 
one headed 11 
2700 
L 13°19' % 171°07 1 
2317 
Sooty Tern 
calling overhead 
2400 
L 17°24 * A 171°01' 
August 7 
The weather today was cooler with winds from the east at about 20 knots, 
and scattered clouds. The sea remains rather rough with 10 foot swells 
and many white caps* We have seen very few birds. 
I asVed the captain today about the weather and locality data and 
he said I was welcome to take any information from the ship’s log which 
I could use. 1 then preceded to get the ship’s position every hour, weather 
information, course and othe v information which I felt was useful from 
the lop. j'r. Bushman found me doing this and started a big stink about 
. 
how the ship’s position was classified and what we were doing and I 
didn’t have security clearance and I couldn’t have this information and 1 
as^ed him how in hell we were supposed, to provide a report on bird activity 
in this study are© if we couldn’t know where we were or information bout 
the ship’s course and so forth. I further said that I felt It was BTC’s 
fault that I had no security clearance and not Hill’s and that if they 
expected us to do the job nroperly we’d better be able to get the information 
we needed. I told him that we wanted the weather information every hour 
and not every six. 
He couldn’t see why and 1 told him it was important as 
