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Wirtz . William 0. 
1963— At Sea 
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to Hilo, tnd at 1350 course was changed to 02?°. We expect to arrive 
at Pearl Harbor about dark tomorrow. ibis afternoon we began cleaning 
up equipment and pacVing it for transfer to the other ship. e **ill m-intei 
the watch tomorrow til] we reach Pearl, but do no more collecting. 
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The othe ship is supposed to be much heavier than this and little 
sub.iect to rolling. It has a scientific lab and also recording weather 
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instruments. Its captain in an fv-d shooter and will probably participate 
in our collecting activities—we hope t is improves our kill percentage 
The trip has run very smoothly with the utmost cooperation 
from Cept. Sternberg, the officers and crew, and should definitely be 
termed a success, even the more so as 't was our first try at this phase of 
the operation. 
0200 L 18*01$ 162°09 1 
course 085° headed ? 
0630 sunrise 
0648 wt hearwe ter 
07 00 
1 18°11 1 \ 161°28 
0707 
WT Shearwater 
0720 
/ 
Petrel? - 
0729 
WT rhearw ter? 
- \ 
Bonin I, Petrel? 
17 3' 7 
8 scattered about ship moving over water as 
if feeding; s large school of flying fish 
broke water but the birds did not go after 
them; headed T 
one headed 1 behind ship 
2 headed S 
2 separated headed N 
one heeded NF junt over water; nearly wedge- 
tall size, whitish are around head 
