^Eugene Kridler to Roger Clapp 
(Tape # 2 ) 
January 1970 p .2 
afternoon, there were tremendous seas pounding into the landing site, estimated at 
somewhere around 25-30 feet and it took us almost an hour to get off with consider¬ 
able difficulty. By the time it came time for our John Sincock and I to get off 
there were 3-4 and sometimes 5 foot of water smashing over and crashing over the 
platform itself and on several occasions it washed John and I back against the 
backwall and banged us around a bit. We all managed to make it off with only a 
few lumps here and there. I’m sure it would be an adventure which you could very 
well do without. I think that somewhere in this report, possibly in the general 
discussion of Necker, we should indicate the hazards, the extreme hazards, involved 
in the landing on the island. 
Then in May, Dave Olsen looking for a different way to land on the island 
other than on that west side, moved in with a rubber boat quite a bit into 
La Shark Bay and swam ashore and as you can see in the May Report, he experienced 
or had quite an adventure with sharks in getting ashore and this of course is another 
very real problem,in any landings on Necker there is the high populations of sharks 
around the island. 
Now in all island reports we should state the islands are part of the National 
Wildlife Refuge,.Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife with immediate administration by 
the Wildlife Administrator here in Kilua, Hawaii. Also, that the islands have been 
designated as national natural research areas or natural areas by the Director of 
the Fish and Wildlife Service and as such the management is essentially to let 
natural events take their course as much as possible. Thus, we do not manipulate 
the Refuge as anywhere near as much as what we would on many of our mainland areas, 
the management objectives being different and also the landings on the islands are 
restricted to scientists under the permit from the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and 
Wildlife only. General public use is not encouraged. One of the main reasons for 
this of course, is the possibility of the introduction of exotic weeds in the forms 
of seeds carried in the clothing or equipment, the possibility of the introduction 
