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Booda, Editor July 25, 1977 PRECISE DATA COLLECTION ON MONITOR BEGINS,: For -th.e fir'st time since -the.--si e_was_:L_.: declared a Marine Sanctuary, @@..completely organized and authorizL-d expeditibri-is visiting the s .iteL- -of. the Civ'il War ironclad USS@@M'onitor to ga@@ek'a precise -d'atd base of the vessel,'which lies'upside down ..... Conducted b'y'the_'Hakbor.Branch ' 'with the' Nat o' : " ' @a-nj:'d: aih-:S. Foundation,'Inc.', Fort Pierce, Fla., in cooperation iinal OcL Atmospheric' Administration (NOAA), the expedition began July 17, S unday During i @i one the course of the mission two surface vessels, two manned submersib es@ aLn unmanned tethered underwater vehicle (CORD) system will be used.. Thirty techni- cians. inciu'ding.2diveirs are there. The f irsit w'e'ek' of the:planned 19 day expedition was spent p@rformin*g' a -sid'e- scan' sonar' survey of the wreck using a k1ein Associ@ttes iristriiment'in'@tal '66-ozi the Harbor Branch@"vessel S'ed Diver, and 'a photo/video reconnaissand6 of the monitor c-irea-by the CORD vehicle.- o provide' a co'm'p-r'ehe ..Objective"o'f t-he'"expe'ditiori'i nsive v. an sonar. 3ata-'basei to the, Ma'rine .Sanctuaries Pro gram 5ec,@ion`of' the Office@ .'of"Coast:dl -Z(5ne. 0, Management ('OCZ_M')-, bf NOAA to'aid-in admiriistration,ol@ the-sanc'tua:ry ..... in ad;@i_-_@ tion to the sonar survey a photogrammetic survey using stereo_photographic techni- ques wili be@ ' e 'kor'm'ed to obtain 1@etter or:aile'ntatioh 'of the hull tham the A c -E - 7 p r -- ' -"-' "" ' - ' . - _.- .. . . .... ". _ ujusr_,..,... 1973 original discovery, mis:sion'p_r'ovi7de'd.- A'side- mission iz-@ to ie'c5ov-e@c 'the"".'' ez@@e' :r "camer'a" i6@t'in ij V. 7, r Edgerton-und C-1 9 with a y -loadecT'f-ilr@'magazine. and re- i4o- i:@. - @, f- ... - ... - . trieve a fra -o the@ n or's i t "'that broke of f @;hen:-at t'empt ,t' gmen+_ ron p a e ri reco@rer the 6affi-ler-a'... U. Vcn. ..... Starting today divers will lock-out of one of the Johnson-Sea-Link subm_e@rsi-:' bles to begin to set the photogrammetiic.grid a-Lid perform. the other.tasks.. . St.ere.o photographs can be made with two techniques;- with twix@--;lens-c'ameras-takincj-:@im'u'I taneous shots, or .. a camera towed like aerial sy@tems t"akin'g'shots a ong straight path with 60% or more overlap to pro'vfde stereo viewing of the over ap areas. J., ..... The surface s@upport'ships are the MV Johnson-and the R/V @ea Diver-. '-Th@ii Jo _:t hnson has a be:l6w-deck decompression chamber that can mate directly yith diver lock-out, lock-in chambersi of the two'submersibles. .....Director of operations of the expedition is Roger W. Cook, who also holds the same position at the Harbor Branch Foundation. On the scene as technical advisers will be Edwin A. Link, inventor of the Link Trainer and official of the Foundation, and Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, inventor of the stroboscopic light and co-founder of EG&G Inc. Acting as technical adviser are Lt. Cdr. Floyd Childress, NOAA Corps and Chester Slama, Chief, NOAA Photogrammetric Research Branell-w- Assisting COMPASS PUBLICATIONS. INC. MATERIAL M^Y NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT PERMISSION. AIR MAILED TO YOUR DESK EVERY OTHER K40NDAY 26 ISSUES. $36.00/Vew. in developing a photogrammetric system is Dr. Donald Rosencrantz, Naval Ocean Systems Laboratory, Kailua, Hawaii. Gordon Watts, under-water archeologist of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History is an on-site archeological adviser ..... Sea Technology Associate Editor Michael Mulcahy is on the scene for a substantial portion of the expedition. ..... The Monitor sank while under tow during a severe winter storm Dec. 31, 1962, carrying several men to their deaths. It lies upside down in 220 feet of water with the turret, the "cheesebox" of the "cheesbox on a raft" nickname of the vessel, moved sideways so that a portion of its bottom shows in previous photographs. ..... Location of the wreck is 16.1 nautical miles bearing IS90 from Cape Hatteras Lighthouse at 35000'23" North Latitude, 75024'32" West Longitude. The s&nctuary, so designated on January 30, 1975, is 1.2 nautical miles in diameter. MORE POSSIBLE MARINE SANCTUARIES TO BE IDENTIFIED. In his May 23 environmental message President Jimmy Carter made reference to Marine Sanctuaries. He noted that only two sanctuaries have been designated since the act went into effect in 1972. .... Now the OCZM Marine Sanctua--ies Office of NOAA has been ordered to identify areas in Alaska and elsewhere where offshore development appears imminent.....By Aug. 1 criteria are to be established for evaluation and possible designation of more sanctuaries. . ..... Highest priorities will be given to Alaska's Lower Cook Inlet and George's Bank off New England because oil and gas tract lease sales are scheduled 'for those areas in October and November ..... Recommendations from other federal agencies are being sought by OCZM ..... The different types of sanctuaries could :Lnclude: special habitats for fish and rare species, recommended by the National Marine Fisheries Service; .research areas by the Environmental Protection Agency; recreational areas by the Bureau of outdoor Recreation, National Park Service, Department of the interior; ar@d unique or exceptional areas for pr otection of one-of-a-kind geological, archeological or living resource features by Interior's Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey and Fish & Wildlife Service. ..... The next step after Aug. 1 is to ask government agencies to submit to OCZM information on proposed sites -- the geographic area, justification for the rec- ommendations and summaries of existing data bases to support the ideas. They are due Sept. 9. At the same time recommendations from the public are-.-due-. .1n.mid-.- November the first group of recommended sanctuaries-will be sent to agenc-les for- comment ..... By Dec. 30 oczm will submit its recommendations to the Administrator of NOAA. LAW OF THE SEA CONI-MRENCE ENDS STILL STALE.MATED. when the July 15 end of the Law of the Sea Conference in New York came little progress nad been made from what was reported last issue (wL July 11, p.4). Even a composite text on where matters stood and containing what the starting point should be in next year's conference was missing. one source told Sea Technology that.the chairman of the crucial Com- mittee I where the subject of how to mine deep sea manganese nodules was debated was writing his own text, using mainly whimsy ..... As'of last week the situation accord- ing to informed sources was that the composite text would come out of United Nations Headquarters sometime this month.....Until that text does appear U.S. Ambassador to the conference Elliot Richardson cannot make a formal report. As soon as it is issued he is scheduled to make a closed session appearance before the House Commit- tee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. OCEAN MINING 13ILL APPROVED BY SUBCOMMITTEE. H.R. 3350, the ocean mining bill that would provide protection for U.S. campanies wanting to mine for manganese nodules, last week was approved by the Subcommittee on oceanography of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries after a mark-up session. (Previous news on the bill in WL for May and June 13). It is now up for approval of the full connittee. ..... The major change adopted in the session last week referred to the escrow fund. Premiums will be charged for an investment guarantee which would be paid if and when an international mining regime eliminates private mining. FRANK AT NOAA HELM. Richard A. Frank is now the administrator of the National. oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). His confirmation hearing was held July and the Senate confirmed him the next day. (Details on Frank WL July 11). ..-Dr. Robert M. White's last day in office was Friday, July 15. He became Chair- man of'the Climate Research Board of the National Academy of science Monday, July 18. He and his wife, Mavis, spent the month of June on vacation in Europe- His confidential secretary Ruth Barritt went with him to the Board. .... Former Deputy Administrator Howard W. Pollock on July 15 received a letter from President Jimmy Carter accepting his resignation and praising his service. ,...Pollock had garnered support to stay another six months to gain retirement ime but Frank decided otherwise. However, Pollock, an attorney and disabled vet- eran, joined the minority staff of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fish- eries the next day, maintaining his federal service. He was sponsored by the two ranking Republicans on the committee, Phillip E. Ruppe,.Mich. and Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Cal. P]ERMANENT DIVING STANDARDS RELEASED, FINALLY. After more than a.year of public Flearings, punctuated by cries of protest from the commercial diving community and the situation compounded by bureaucratic delays, the permanent set of diving standards has been released. The Occupational.Safety and Health Administration- (OSRA) of the Department of Labor published'them last Friday in the Federal Register. ..... There are noticeable differences in the permanent standards from the proposed set published last November.....This can be attributed to an attempt to make the standards more flexible. One area of flexibility is the.exclusions. * The proposed standards sought to exclude scientific divers from' *being covered- The. permanent set has narrowed the exclusion to only those scientific divers who are not covered as human subjects by the rules and regulations of HEW or some other federal agency during their diving activities. s Diver's engaged in search and rescue or related public safety activities by or under the control of a governmental agency would have been covered in the proposed, ....standards. But not now.- Under the permanent set they are excluded. This takes note of the fact that by their nature search and rescue are often performed in remote areas. : Ablanket exclusion allows for deviation from the letter of the law in an mergency or in the interest of preserving the environment, as long as OSHA is notified of the deviation within 48 hours. ..... Commercial diving companies already possessing pressure vessels for human occupancy must comply with the standards by Oct. 20. If the companies do not-have the equipment at present they are given six months extra to comply, to April 20, 1978. PROJECT SEAFARER CONTINUES ITS PRECARIOUS JOURNEY. Project Seafarer, the Navy's planned extremely low frequency (ELF) system to communicate with submarine, con- tinues along its rocky road toward some sort of approval within the Executive Branch, the public and Congress. (Details and analysis in WL April.18, page 4.) As of last week a limited agreement on an appropriation was possible, be- cause the House had knocked all funds for the system out of the appropriations bill, but the Senate had provided $20.1 million, which was $3 million less than the Navy had requested- Full scale development was removed from the Senate version- .....What would come out of a Senate-House conference Committee was anybody's guess. ..... It wasn't until May that internal Department of Defense support was generated for the project, with Secretary Harold Brown writing support letters to two senators. As of this writing there had been no definitive support from President Jimmy Carter, except one background interview in which he equivocated. ..... The Navy's main arguments: the system works; there are no adequate alternatives available now; it is needed for national security; its operation would not result in environmental hazards; and some operational form of Seafarer -ultimately will be built. .....A recent letter from the Navy League to its members, stated, in part, "For reasons you already have heard Michigan is still the best place to build Seafarer. In this connection, a site nomination by the Secretary of Defense is:anticipated by mid-September. "The recently manifested vigorous support of Seafarer by the Administration and the conference committee action itself tend to re-establish a basic fact: The .decision on whether to proceed with Seafarer will be made by the Congress and the President, and will not be subject to a state "veto." Interestingly enough, fewer.- than 1-1/2% of the registered voters in Michigan have actually expressed themselves on the subject of Seafarer, and this was done in referendums prior tothel.release.- of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement,, and prior to public heariings. $'There appears to be increased public understanding of the facts and also approval of the project. In addition, even some members of Congress from Michigan are indi- cating a grudging acceptance of it. Congressman Lucien Nedzi (D-Mich.), who served on the Armed Services' Joint Conference Committee has said in a televisicin interview.- 'One does have to consider the National interest, and I'm sure tha people of Michigan understand that.' He also noted that if there is no longer a question about Se'afa'rer being environmentally sound, '...I think many would be inclined.to support it who don't at the present time.' And Congressman Philip E. Ruppe (R-Mich-.),-'who-has been a highly vocal critic of Seafarer, observed on the same program, televised by W`LUC-TV, in Marquette, Mich., June 27, '...the longer the Navy has some money forresearch-t- and development, the more likely it is that the Navy's momentum will ultimately-'be-, successful.'.. "CoIngress has suggested to the Navy that it evaluate a smaller system. Such a system would not meet all of the national command requirements, but would.provide, improved communications with our submarines in certain important ocean areas -- and provide it in time to meet the period of critical need, i.e., when Soviet technology will have made possible the capability of detecting our submarines if they still must use an antenna near the surface to receive their communications. A reduced system would, however, be capable of being expanded. "A compromise position is a test site in Michigan (already covered by the present Draft Environmental Impact Statement), requiring only about 5% of the full antenna, 130 miles of cable laid almost entirely along existing rights-of-way, installation of the system's transmitter on K.I. Sawyer AF Base, and operation of it in conjunc- tion with the existing Wisconsin Research Facility. "The final report of the National Academy of Sciences, which is long awaited, is expected within the next several weeks." MTS ADC TO SPONSOR DIVING INSURANCE SYMPOSIUM. After an abortive attempt- to, hold-, a joint marine Technology Society New York Section -- Association of Diving Contractors symposium in New York last year, another is now planned. As WL went to Press arrange- ments were in their last stages with several hotels leading to a-late November date. Washington Letter of Oceanogr.aphy including SEAS circulated to those interested in ocean engineering, marine resources development and undersea defense pubLished by SEA TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE 1117 N. 19th St., Arlington, Va. 22209 Vol. 11, No. 16 (703) 524-3136 Larry L. Booda, Editor August 8, 1977 MAJOR OCEAN POLICY FORMATION UNDERWAY IN ADMINISTRATION. Secretaryof Commerce Juanita Kreps has emerged as the key figure in an administration ocean'policy formulation effort that is due to climax with its presentation to the second session of the 95th Congress in January. All departments and agencies of the Executive Branch are scheduled to be asked for data and comments in a memorandum she has prepared for President Jimmy Carter's signature. ..... Specifically excluded in the memorandum are operational activities of the Department 'of Defense. Inputs will be due to Kreps in November for inclusion in an overall document that will be sent to the Office of Managementand Budget. ..... It ail started with a letter from the president June 16 directing Kreps to have her department act as the lead agency in the effort. As a consequence a task force peopled in large part by persons from Commerce's National oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is at work, with James C urlin heading the group ..... Funneling inputs from NOAA to the task group has been Samuel Bleicher (WL June 13, page 1). Main Line Components (MLCs) of NOAA have been hard at work preparing comments on the various suggestions regarding NOAA'reorganization and how they would fit into an overall Executive Branch reorganization. NOAA Administrator Richard A. Frank must meet a deadline of today., .....The document the MLCs were handed was entitled "Comprehensive ocean Policy Study." It covers all oceanic matters but Defense ..... It is in five parts: introduction; The Nation's Stake in the Oceans;.Institutional Framework for Managing the Oceans;-Managing the Nation's Ocean and Coastal Resources; marine Transportation; Marine Environment;'Managing Science and Technology; manpower and Education; Organizing the National Ocean Effort. ..... In dealing with the broad issues of ocean policy the document specifically excludes Defense operational activities, but it does comment on areas such as Navy ocean science and related programs of the Army Corps of Engineers. ..... An interesting sidelight has been mentioned within NOAA dealing with.Charles F. Treat, chief of the Science and Environmental Programs Staff of the Commerce Office of Budget and Program Analysis. in the past, according to the sources, he was the nemesis for some of NOAA's ocean programs. Now he is evincing,enthusiasm- TRIESTE II RUNS INTO WORLD'S DEEPEST VOLCANO AT 15,000 FEET. Dr. Robert Ballard is an enthusiastic marine g'eologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic inst@itution (WHOI). Last year he investigated the Cayman Trench, an earth rift between two tectonic plates, south of Cuba, in the WHOI operated, Navy owned, submersible COMPASS PUBLICATIONS. INC. MATERIAL MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WIIHOUT PE RMISSION. AIR MAILED TO YOUR DESK EVERY OTHER MONDAY 26 ISSUES. %36.001yew. Alvin in conjunction with the National Geographic.Society ..... Early this year he investigated hot spots on the deep ocean bottom near the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific ocean off Ecuador. This summer he was scheduled to exceed the Alvin's 12,000 feet capability in the bathyscaph Trieste II. (Trieste I set the world's depth record of 35,800 feet Jan. 23, 1960 in the Challenger Deep 200 miles southwest of Guam with Navy Lt. -- now Dr. -- Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard aboard.) Trieste II, with a 20,000 foot operational capability, is operated by the Navy's Submarine Develop- ment Group I in San Diego. ..... By July 15 Ballard was on his third mission of this summer's expedition with pilots Lt. Cdr. J. K. Newell and Master Chief George G. Ellis.....At 14,000 feet the CTFM (Continuous,Transmission Frequency Modulation) sonar picked up a bottom indication 1,000 feet further down, so a slow release of magnetically secured steel shot ballast was begun. The descent rate slowed from 4 feet per second (fps), or 2.3 knots, to 0.4 fps, 0.23 kt. Then suddenly they spotted an 800 slope, and before any action could be taken with the sluggish 78.6 foot long craft it crunched into a submarine volcano. A TV camera was wiped out and other damage done. ..... What struck fear. in the hearts of the passengers was the sight of fluid escaping. It turned out to be pressure compensating oil for the camera. If it had been some of the 65,830 gallons of aviation gasoline used for buoyancy (salt water weighs 8 pounds per gallon, gasoline 6 pounds), the situation would have been hazardous ..... The pressure at 15,000 feet is 6,750 pounds per square inch, or 486 tons per square foot. The mission was ended. ..... The spot where the volcano was found is similar to hundreds of spots.on the mid-Atlantic Ridge. in this case the trench is a seaward extension of an east-west fault that runs through Guatemala. At one point it makes a north-south jog of some 90 miles. At this point the earth is being opened with each east-west earth movement,*or earthquake, allowing molten lava to escape, essentially a volcanic eruption. . ..... The lava there at depths from 15,000 to ?0,000 feet immediately solidifies,, entrapping the gases. Lava samples and volcanic glass retrieved by Ballard in the Trieste II on the first two missions has.begun todisintegrate at sea level due to the internal gas pressure. .....On the first dive of the expedition the vehicle went to 20 250 feet, making it the second deepest dive on record,* according to Ballard. On'the second dive Trieste II stayed down a record 16-1/2 hours and traveled six miles. ..... Trieste II is relatively unmaneuverable and slow- Its value to the Navy and the scientific conmunity is debatable. Many consider it not cost-effective. In addition the CTFM sonar it carries is the same one used on Trieste I in 1960, a Japanese made $800 Furono that cannot detect objects inside 50- yards. ..... In addition to some eloquent and profane language, Washington Letter was told that the bathyscaph should "have a stake put through its heart." But 10 another more level head suggested that it be shuttled to a museum.....Ten years ago Westinghouse oceanic Division began engineering and fabrication of a 20y000 foot capability Deep Submergence Search Vehicle but was discouraged by lack of Navy interest, which went ahead with the Trieste II, whose clumsiness since then has proved its limited value in general and emergency operations. rJ,COA SEikPR03E BEING FITTED FOR DEEPSEA Pi1OTOGFZPiPHY. The research vessel 11.1coa Seaptobe, now on lease to the Woods fjole Oceanographic Institution, will be used on occasion to perform, deep sea photography using new and highly innovative equip- ment and techniques ..... The vessel, a miniature Glomar Ex plorer, has a center we 11 and at present 10,000 feet of drill pipe to lower and raise cages that can carry a variety of sensors, cameras, lights and manipulators. Its capacity will- bc-: increased to 16,000 feet of pipe. ..... At present Dr. Robert Ballard (see previous story) is 'working with Emory Christoff, a photographer for 'the National Geographic Society, preparing new more effective cameras for use in the towed cage.....The equipment is being prepared at Benthos, Inc., North FaLmouth, not far from Woods Hole, Mass-. .....Especially innovative is the lighting system. it consists of a glass sphere filled with flash bulbs which can be fired on command. In use w ith a modified LIBEC - (LIght BEhind Camera) system, it will enable cameras to photoqrap)@i areas 300 feet across, a feat unheard of before. LIBEC defeats light backscatter from particulate matter in water by placing the light source well above the camera so that,the backscatter passes@by the camera before the shutter opens for the bottom light return. .....Seaprobe worked the past month for the Navy- Sources still tell Washington Letter.that it will be used occasionally to implant and retrieve sensor cages in. the deep sea- THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING. Recently Russian scientists touring in this country applied for visas to visit the Canadian built submersible Taurus operating out: of the marine Science Center of the University of Southern California at Santa Catalina Island off the coast*near Los Angeles- The sub is owned and operated by its maker, International Hydrodynamics, Ltd-, Vancouver, B.C..--.. USC had ex- tended a formal invitation to the Soviets through the U.S. Embass y in Moscow. ..... State's Office of Soviet Affairs turned down the request clue to Navy objections that averred that the Taurus represented a capability not currently possessed by the Soviets and that location of Taurus operations were within one raile of classifi.ed Navy operations at San Clemente Island- ..... The incident was described7as a "knee jerk reaction" following to the extreme the policy of Adm. Hyman Rickover against exposure of technology to the Soviets. ....The fact is,that neither the submersible itself nor its capabilitSr a-re exotic, and it does not exce6d the present Soviet capability. 'Also, the sub operates within one mile of the Marine Center using a marine railway rather than a mother vessei, and the Center is 25 miles from San Clemente- ...... if the Canadians really wanted to circumvent the situation.they could go 12 miles to sea and show it to the Russians or take the sub back to Canada- MONITOR EXPEDITION SUCCESSFUL. in visibility that on some days was 5 feet, to more than 100 feet on another when videotapes were made, an expedition to the site of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor lying in 220 feet of water last Tu 'esday retrieved a camera snagged four years ago ana-a piece of the ship's plate ,dislodged in subsequent attempts to raise the camera. ----- Sea Technology's Associate Editor Michael Mulcahy was there and filed this report. (Details on the plans in WL July 25.) F ONI than _ -1 C]_VJL aa7m ..... Videotape taken from the unmanned CORD vehicle clearly showed the turret area and armor belt low on the keel (now closest to the surface because the ship is upside dowm) ..... Gene Melton of Harbor Branch Foundation, was the first diver to lockout of a submersible, the Johnson-Sea-Link 11, on.July 27, remainirg outside for 40 minutes- ..... The grid for the photogrammetric survey was implanted in one day, much. faster than expected- Locked-out divers laid out the 170 ft- Polypropylene basct- line cord that was graduated each 5 feet. Helton was joined by Richard RoE!sch. For each diver one other remained in a sub (the Johnson -S e a-Link. I was also there) paying out the umbilical cord which piped a 90% helium-10% oxygen mixture to the divers. The longest lockout was 60 minutes. Divers were subsequently transferred to the decompression chamber aboard the R/V Johnson through locks with which the subs.can mate ..... Currents varied from 0.3 kt. tal.4 kt. early in the expedition, and then increased to 2 kt. They varied around the compass. ..... The Monitor's red lantern, found partly buried, was retrieved first- 'Che piece of plate was lifted by air bag to a rubber boat. The Edgerton camera waa sent up by inflatable bag, but when it reached the surface the b ,ag "burped",.. or expelled air, and the camera went down again. It was retrieved by the manipulator of -the John son-S ea-Link I that was piloted by Marshall Flake. (other pilots were Tim Askew and Jeff Prentice.) Dr- 11arold Edgerton, deligner of the camera, who was on the scene, after seeing the flooded housing, conceded that the second hand "would probably be pretty low-" ENERGY DEPAP-72JUMNT CREATED; OTFC FLT-?,TDED FOR $35 MILLION. Congress approved forma- tion of a new Department of Energy last Tuesday, Aug. 2 ..... Its -major componentq will be the present Energy Research and Development Administration (URDA), the Federal Power Commission (FPC) and the Federal Energy. Administration (FEA) other components and their current' locations axe: Petroleum and Shale Reserves, Defense; Emergency Power and Resource Activ"ities, interior; Power Marketing,, Interior; Coal Mine Production R&D, Interior; Voluntary Industrial Energy Conser- vation, Commerce;- Energy Production on Public Lz@nds, Interior; Thermal Efficiency Standards, RUD; Oil Pipeline Regulation, ICC; Energy Mineral Leasing, Interior; Rural Electrification Administration Loans, Agriculture; and Fu6.1 Efficiency Standards, Transportation. ..... There was recent agreement in Congress on ERDA's Ocean Thermal Energy Con- version (OTEC) funding, which is set for $35.5 million, $10 million over the amount requested. That means OTEC has jumped from $85,000 in six years, indicat- ing official optimism on this 24 hour-per-day solar energy source. See Sea Tech- nology for August for major coverage on this system- SEAFARER GETS PRESIDENTIAL NOD, $15 MILLION, MICHIGAN & 14AS -APPROVAL. Since our last newsletter (July 25 for details) the situation on the Navy's Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) communications tortuous way through the administration and Congress has jelled- _.First, President Jim-my Carter wrote a letter to Rep- Elfrod A. Cederberg (R-Mich.) July 29, saying that the system is essential,for national security and that none of the development funds will be used for work on a site in Michigan.. ....@-Then -Senate-House conferees followed through by appropriating $15 million for development of equipment for transmitters on land and receivers for submaLrines. ..... At press time last Thursday it wa@ learned that Gov. Willi .. am G. milliken of Michigan was ready to sign a letter to the president indicating willingness to go along with a reduced system provided that the president says that it is in the national interest and that does not become operational immediate ly- Michigan authorities are now convinced that there is no harm in it unless.direct contact is made, such as wet bare feet on the ground above a poorly grounded buried. cable, but then only a tingle would be felt. The system will be on.federal property- DEEP QUEST continued The system is completely self __@contained and requires no outside power source for start-up or operation.. YOU may send covers to....Donald Saner, DEEP QUEST Operations, Lockheed Ocean Laboratory, 3380 N. Harbor Drive,. San Diego, "A 92101. 1U. S. S.MONITOR REMAINS TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHNSON SEA LINK SUBS . On page 71 of this issue you will find info written .by Charles Simpson telling of a new expedition to the MIONITOR site. How- ever, a press release just received from NOAA carries other pertinent '*info so I will print this for you also. An underwater research project at the NIONITOR Marine Sanctuary off the Coast of Hatteras, N.C., is being carried out by NOAA. in cooperation with the Harbor Branch Foundation of Fort Pierce, FL, op- erators of the JOHNSON SEA LINK submersibles. Purpose of the project, which began July 17 and will end Aug. 8, is to compile a comprehensive photographic record of the condition of the Civil War ironclad, to as- sist NOAA in the management of the sanctuary. The MONITOR-Research and Recovery Foundation, Inc., will make an archaeological and en@rironmental -assessment based on video - taDe. films and stereophotographs to be obtained during the project.' Operations Director for the personnel,-equipment, and surface and underwater vessels is Roger W. Cook of Harbor Branch, Stereophotography, the key to the operation, is ac- complished by means of two cameras, mounted on one of the JOHNSON SEA. LINK subs, which focus on a subject from different angles and provide. a three-dimensional image'. A photographic grid established by lock-out divers is used as a reference ponit by the submersible for taking stereo pair photographs. The resulting photo -gramme tric analysis will determine the dimensions of the MONITOR and raake possible measurements of the com- 0 ponents used in construction of the vessel. NOAA believes'. that the mea- surements: will be.accurate to six millimeters. Assisting in the development of the photogrammetric' system is Dr. Donald Rosencrantz who used the technique to map the re- mains of a fourth century Roman shipwreck.- (Ed notes Dr. Rose-ncrantz signed our covers for the ASHERAH dives at Yassi Ada ,Turkey) Also in-- volved is Dr. Harold Edgerton, who developed the Edgerton Deep Sea Stan- dard Camera that will be used in portions of the photography. Plans have also been made to raise a piece broken off the MONITOR from an earlier expedition, provided the integrity of the ship will not be affected. Special arrangements have been made with the Naval Ship Research and Development Centers DID, to conduct an analysis of the broken piece to determine the physical condition of the remains of the MONITOR and the extent to which the MONITOR can support itself in any proposed recovery effort. The Fifth U.S. Coast Guard District is assisting NOAA and Harbor Branch in the project. I Operations Director Roger Cook holds the world's record for a 700' lock-out dive, the deepest on record from a submersible. The'MONITOR site was designated a Marine Sanctuary by the Secretary of Commerce on 1-30-75, under the authority of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. The sanctuary is an area of the Atlantic- Ocean around and above the site of the ?TONI- OR, which has rested for 114 years in 220' of water. Since the project ends Aug. 8 it will be too late to get covers to them in time, but you should already have covers out to then, from my past advice. So let us hope that Mr. Cook will find time to document for us. Other covers may be sent to...Mr. Roger W. Cook, Harbor Branch Foundation, Inc., RFD Is Box 196, Fort Pierce,FL 33450. OCEAN SCHENCE NEVVS -5- August 8, 1977 THERE WAS ONE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE'VYITH THE MONITOR STUDY PROJECT this year from last: No one had to go through any permi-"ing process this time (OSN, 27Aug 0 t> 0 76). Last year Robert White, head of the Natl. Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, which has cognizance over the Monitor I@Iarine Sanctuary off the coast of Hatteras NC, de- nied an attempt by the Monitor Research & Recovery Foundation to study the sunken, Civil War g Z) guaboat because the permitting process had not been carried throi_,gh. Thisyear, NOAA ruled that the Harbor Br'anch Foundation could dive on the vessel without a permit because, as one NOAA source put it, "we wanted the information for management purposes." Harbor Branch donated -time and services (the original estimate of the cost of the two -week- expedition which just ended was $225,000),, and NOAA knew a good thing when it saw it. Harbor Branch had been working with the '_Nlonitor foundatio which currently holds a research permi4OSN is told, but there was a" falling ouV1 between them and NOAA stepped in as the operator. To do so evidently removed the necessity for permitting Harbor Branch because, as the NOAA source said: "The Natl. Park Service doesn't give itself a permit when it wants to learn something about one of its parks. We need information as managers of- the . sanctuary; we wanted baseline data- on the archeological site. 11 The only hitch: For Harbor Branch to proceed, NOAA had to promise'that Harbor Branch could run the research project "as they saw fit," revealed OSNI s source. NOA-A supervision w as in 'the form of havin- a single NNOAA Corps officer aboard the search vessel. The Monitor foundation was present" as guests only." Results of the proiect: Acquisitionof much of the baseline data NOAA wanted, includ- .in,- precise measurements of the vessel by photography; recovery of one piece of iron plate which the Navy had grabbed hold of three years ago but dropped; recoverT of one lantern. Later the Navy may analyze the plate to see how the iron reacts to atmospheric conditions. NOAA is negotiating with the Monitor foundation for an archeological interpretation of the film. The federal agency probably spent about $10-15, 000 directly on the project, plus an equivalent amount for salaries of personnel involved. Some 12-18 months and $50, 000 will be required toprocess the photos. C@aa indication of the sensitivitv of these sanctuary projects: When the Harbor Branch divers found the lantern (they had not expected it), there was some thought of hauling it up immediately. However, the NOAA man on the scene took charge for the moment and. cleared the salvage with t.!ie Navy, the Smithsonian Institution and the Dept. of the Interior. Each of those agencies has some responsibility for some aspect of the Monitor sanctuary. THE SENATE VERSION OF TH E DEEP SEABED MININ-G BILLWAS INTRODUCED by Sen. Lee Idetcalf (D-MT) on 5Aug. (See OSN, 15Aug, for a comparison of it to H. R. 3350, whi-ch has been reported by the House Merchant Marine Committee.) The Senate bill is scheduled to be taken up -by- the Senate@ -Energy Committee in- September. It would establish a Deep Sea- bed Mining Fund "for purposes of paying compensation!' to licensees and permittees up to 907o or $1050 million, -whichever is less for loss of investment as a result of a transition to an international agreement. Compensation would be paid "only to the extent provided for in .appropriation acts." The annual premium charged the r2iners will amount to at least one- C> quarter, but not more than three-quarters of 1% of the value of the investment. In addition, no later than six months after the act becomes effective, -specific legisla- tive recommendations will be made by the Secretary of the Interior (unlike the House bill which has the Secreta of Commerce in charge of deep sea mining for the creation of "a ry special fund... for the payment of U. S. contributions to an international regime" whLich may be established by a U. N. Law of the Sea Treaty or some other agreement. The secretary L will determine "the source,, amount, and computation of the contributions required; the structure of the special fund; the tax treatment of the contributions. .. ; and the disposition of the fund" in case an international agreement falls through. The Senate bill calls on NatI. ccelerate its Deep Oce -an Mining E viro ental Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration to a C3 n nm Studi--s. The Senate and I-louse bills are quite similar; attempts hc-_@ve been made to change the Senate bill to agree with the final language of the House measure in many respects. MISTER, SUNbAY, jUNE 19, 11971.-1.- S2A THE NEW HAVEN RE y,. -he covered Civil Mon'tor Ma 6 Monitor by dig- .1y If the Glomar Is used, Hi RALEIGH, MCI (UPI) - fie man Year's Eye, 1862, nine months aiier Its.', 113ts decide to recovDr th be eq.", who d1roctM a research expedition to the Inconcloslye battle with the Merrimac. .' ging undet the surface And lifting the ship' [email protected] Is scheduled 0 Iya uAed for Unrelated': site of the Monitor says scientists no long. Among the thlrgs rclentlsts aboard-.* and sediment together. detp sea'drillIng expedItio ns during tho er doubt the Civil War Ironclad can be the research vessel Cape Henlopei found ,Now we know that to, d1j'Into the 5C .6. recovered from the O'Cean floor. was that ocean currents on the sea floor sod Iment to pull something out of the .,. I .. Sheridan, k lclWi3crlbed Civil War "We all think recovery is femib!e be- around the vmeckaga are gently enough -ment would require so tnafiy tons of !'butt, said he hopea the effort 1@ 50i the' cause of our experience with marine for dIver3 to explore Lhe area. 1 41 force," Sheridan said. "It looks like forces MonItor can be undertaken b&aus6 "It's' technology," said Dr. Robert Sheridan, There Nvere su.-picions that the usual: needed to p-eretrate the'sedIments hro not clear to us that the *eck Ifa tesoi@ce chalrrvin of the Unlvcrslty of Delaware'a ly violent wtatherc conditions In the unreasonable and are within the limits of that should not be wasted." marlIne biology program. "Graveyard of the Atlantic," where technology Sheridan and other scientists were powerful winds and heavy seas are a com- , , A'thir@ fIndingfrom' tht April re-' I elated by the findings of the four-day ex- mon occurrence, would hamper the search trip Indicated that both the bow pcditlon in early April to test the onvironI - pro) ect."We were very happy to have that and'the @tcrnj which face Into, the ocean ment around the Ironclad, which lies finding," said Sheridan in*a ttlephoile"' floor, are supported fror@ below. Sheridan where It sank In the Atlantic Ocean In Interview from his office In Dclaware. said this was Important because there 1862. The Monitor Is upside down in 220 "We needed to have that rpoof before - would be stress on the wreckage during feet of water 16 miles south-southeast of going on." recovery. Cape Hatteras, But Sheridan, who.was part of tho' Among the suggested recovery "It was tremendously successful be. rescarch team that discovered the zmoril- -.,6ds are fre-eiing the waters and,oceah yond ourwildelt dreAms," said John New- tor In 1973, said It may bt longer t'han f Irst ,floor around the ship and lifting the entlre`@@ ton, ckocutive director of the Monitor Rc- anticipated before divem are-sent to* -package for transferral to shallower search and Recovery Foundntlon In probe the forerunner of the modern bat. ter3, where further, exploration can be Bcaufort, N.C. "We've made tremendous UcshJp. done with less difficulty, stri&3, but there's still a lot to be done.- @T h6, diving Is being' IpDsponed to"..-' I Another method- calls for the Glom'ar - dc. The Nlonltor, signed by Swedish .-make more firm decislow abut what they Explorer.t6 dIg under the sea floor below...,' inventor* John"' Ericsson, contained. 40-'.. should do," he said. the wreckage and, again, lift the eintirt InventionA, that could have been patentM, ScIcAlsts are hoping for Another V6 -*,-mass for removal to shalIowerWa16r3i-.._.;- y .:"J had thel 6 been Ornei Among the Inven- age In July or August to conduct more Sheridan, who Is also presideAt 0 the-. tions ivere a movable turret, flush toilets, experiments, but no dat.6 has been set. Monitor. Research and Recovery Found a. a hidden anchor and a force-alr ventfla- Another Important* finding frorA the -'!.,tlon,I'aald that the data- from thi'April..d. tion system. firtt eXpedition backed up earlier beliefs Indicates eltherof thote.twometh. The "cheese box on a raft," as the - that the ocean floor'nn'r the wrodkage Is'..- ods would be the best. - Minotor was called sank In a stom Now cohesive, enough to hold together if sclen-'. -A third suggestion', which would volve,.dismantling the wrecXage *.and._ removing It pleceby-plece, Is turnIng'out to be the least feasible of the three, he':@;. said. -"Any disrhantling 'would be difficult- In Its present location." Sheridan said scientists @Ope to -recover the Monitor befop 1.00, i@EWS AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N.C. JULY 17, 1977 A 0 "A' x ears*:. an F irs TU @-escnich ve scls operated,by q.?; I rents ot 6c'suif e':-; 1 e -vessel, whicii revolutioni2 s th ae U, ahl -s. 4@` 've @3-ia gatherqd during th Is sum M r a. 'ico c studied 2t'."Harbor think there @Vul be a lot f, diving. The Mofiltor Foundatlon in@, DOVAI Warfare with Its revolving gun,,-,'.' lk Pi 'r ;o I b" Branch Foundation %fall wflIll turret, lies In 220 feet of water about Naval Ship lUsearch aud'D6vcIOp'* . . . ban -we i orl CWP_r V.,"@INUE@A'S - Men are scheduled ment Center In Maryland, profit marine research orgifi&@atlon@,* problems.- t gInally. .cludes university researchers wilo 16 miles cast of Cape Hatteras, where.. basedin Fort Plcrce@, Fla., wlIIbogln* @Lbought,llb@sajd, - . .. . . .:. lirst located the wreck.. I - :` :: "Thlq could . provide Important filming the @Ionitor.Sunday. The spo-,1y An addition lo the piece of the ship, Several trustees of the . Monitor loot'on the sunW.Civil War. it sank during a 4torm on Dec. C.Ucq raW out ?,i,divers wPI attempt to rocover 0 cum .-Fo6ndation'will. be at the site during V@jjfid'gunshlp Mopitor fo@ Uic first IGG2. I the confli 0 Of the wreck cially seloc'tcd divers will opc an %v ic er ilhiq -:l'of the S@a Link II, the foundallart's !@Jooq p; Wrocugl pirce years. the .; project,, incIMLng Dr.'][farold n, otor . of the an v 1,4iij in 114 years durinia throe-wcci_ ...'Johfi G. Nowto -dire ailtor might'be I ed,from't*. .-,ubmosj@ Edgerton of the hlassachuietts Instie' ;s rong enough to. 19 research vessel. -I 1@-:; @,`i go rqscarch' projkt that @cglq sunday Monitor '-Research ' Lnd .'Recovcxy@ IV, 'OU OcNorth C@arollm coast@,',: Foundation at Beaufort, said Friday ave,4! Newton @.,Newton W0.14 divers would Technology, Who developed Wt least throe'sophtiti6ato4"ocean- divers would survey the sit* an'4 take ;'!''The :;4onitor: Fo atlon W er after initial wbrk and'tests with under the d1rection cLf the U.S. underwater cameras for the Monitor tesearch ships, underwater vessels photographs that would provide '%@I- d reco ended a studies 'to -manned vessels bad been rovlowcd.,@ *Department ofCommerce, Whichad- - research; Dr. Williarn'StIll Jr.,' k thp @@.Actormlno how well theltronclad had 'Ho-sald scientists Were encouraged inlMsters -the fnadne sarxtuary@:.na'yal b and numerous scientists will particiv three-dimens Iona I -. pictures a[ L-torian at East Carolina Pnj, Vic W the project calling for divers wreck @,'i iurvIve4 more tI= d century at thc,.@@ by resca ch versity, a -d Pr..Roberl Shorjctan?@Iqd . at the sltp In April Wat." wherpthe wreckage li lo_itcd,@ I ed currents on the -ocean's 't".`."The depar1mcni hai L3):Qd the Mon- " C'!,. n.1yq�lt.V, OIL .,-bottom of the &--a and to help cs Urn %to ilidicat --occanograpligr 9@ th 'U' Iscm La.Uiewrqck.for'tJiefL-st!;@.,;, @;He also said divers hoped tfarmov-., 1 '11'44 Foundation to 'On esince it w3s discoverodin 1973. or a metal dock plate that broke olf--(O-Its prta@bable rate of deterioration. :@d were mildor than the swilt cur-, Maio a' two-year 'Delaware. Z ?A. MMIR 11 N VX LP, @4: Al kq-r, gr IN, A 77777-77-- be F . P V1 ; und th CAP NEW HAVEN-- REGISTER JLME 7-@ Monitbr'Cre'w S Des* cendants.-SoUght RALEIGUH, N.C.'(UPI) - Old family Nirs.'Robert P. Lent of flancock; MA p.-pers dndbric-a-brac: In attics may belp Whos6 great u'.nci,!*w*ai an assistant engi. ded a p1me of in N recovery of 'the Civil War ironclad neer on the Mordtor, provi Monftor*, It they can only be found. metal apparently dalvaged from L@e 3h1p. - "We are searching for descendants of .111 had 3 plece of t:he Morifor Lnockod monitor crewmen so we canf ind out rnore off from the fight with the Merrimac," about the construction of the ship," said said Urs..Lent. "Wh= I discovered they-1 John Newton, of Beaufort, N.C., execu- were loo'kang' for Moitor dcscendants, I tiyedirector of the Mcnitor Rcsearch and wrote and asked If they'd like the piece to Recovery Foundation. see If it matched the ship thpy had fourd." "We're looking for letters or anytbilng Louise Busl-triell of New York City gaye stand @q.w the --Nevirton "a whole lot d sluff' left by her that would. heJp us under, .11 hi dfath@r Cornelius Du3lbiell, wh 11- In tdrior of the ship looked, where rrad in- gran ery Was, events. that may have occurred rianced the ship and intervemd @wlth President Uncoln to see that the. on board. INIOPI. "@ihat we'd like to how Is so ething tor'@ wilque design was accepted. rn like, %,here was the Rivington pump?"' Thomas F...Roivland, 6f Kennebunk- he.said. "This will be important In '-wling i@rt, Me., Is the grandson of the man who divers some Idea of where eyerythingwas built the Monitor and owned the New located. They need'to recogrIze whit - York ghlpyaird where It v? 'as constructed. they're looking at.". ;-He has given a @opy of the original h. odel 4 Newton said he Is interested In h@zrlrg to Newton, and still has a set of the origt- frorn descendants of both the 60 Monitor nal tracings drawn by his gandfathcr's and 30ONTerrimac crewmen, since the two &-aftarnan. he M 4t or or, Mew,- ships were so closely liriked in history. Descendants of t t He estimated. there 'could be about. 10,- mac, or anyone with Informatlon pertaln-.' 000 descendant%, but so far has only heard Ing to 'the ships, rnay contact Newton. at frofl@-112 And knows only. of about txo the Monitor Research 'and. Recovery dozefi.'He-said those he has hcard.from '.Poundation, P.O. Box 1=, Bicaukort, C.-I provided invaluable Information...- 2516. Ex edit H ]bn U I n St Newa -7@19-77 HA=RAS,N.C--* Aj@ expedibou is'*getting under why -ble tD rzi-L.,.& thE, CiyU War ve&-,el Monitor 1, cletermine if it's po", thefloorof theAtIantic. 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Only one Atlantic Ocean off Cape Florida are collaborating to con- other area in the U.S., Hatteras, known as the duct an underwater Pennekamp State Park, Key "Graveyard of the Atlantic," photogrammetric survey of the Largo, Fla., enjoys the same where more than 600 ships have wreck of the Civil War ironclad status. Commander Phillip C. gone to the bottom. The Monitor vessel USS Monitor, which sank Johnson is Officer-in-Charge, sank after a violent storm while off Cape Hatteras New Year's Marine Sanctuaries, for the being towed to join a land-and- Eve, 1862. Operations began July federal agency's Office of Coastal sea Union attack on the strategic 17, and are expected to continue Zone Management. Lt. Cdr. port city of Wilmington, N.C. until the first week of August. Floyd C. Childress is the NOAA Harbor Branch Foundation, Photogrammetry is the science observer in the current Monitor Inc., is a not-for-profit corpora- of making precise measurements project. tion established primarily for using photographic techniques. research in the marine sciences The mission's first stage, a for the development of Harbor Branch Foundation, photographic and videotape sur- oceanographic tool and systems Inc. of Fort Pierce, Fla., has vey by the unmanned, remote- for undersea research. been requested to conduct the controlled Harbor Branch vehicle survey by the U.S. Department of called CORD, was successful, Commerce's National Oceanic and has paved the way for the se- and Atmospheric Administration cond, two-week phase of making (NOAA). The mission has the ap- precise mesasurements of the proval of the State of North wreck. The latter will Involve Carolina Department of Cultural locking divers out of one of the Resources. Highly sophisticated submersibles for the purpose of equipment such as side scanning establishing a photographic sonar, small Johnson-Sea-Link baseline. After the baseline has type work submersibles; a been set, another Johnson-Sea- remotely controlled underwater Link submersible will vehicle and underwater com- photograph the wreck using the munications gear is being used. time for prescision navigation passes. These operations will SOME 30 PERSONS from the commence Monday, July 25. Harbor Branch base in Florida are ROGER W. COOK, Harbor involved in hte on-scene ac- Branch Operations Director, tivities of the mission. They are stated today that the purpose of trained specialist in diving, sub- the Monitor project is to perform mersible operation, electronics and marine engineering design and production. The Monitor is 172 feet long, with a beam of 41 feet. She lies upside down on the sand bottom of the Atlantic in some 220 feet of water approximately 18 nautical miles southeast of Cape Hatteras. The wreck successfully eluded searchers for more than 100 years. No mission thus far has been so ambitious as this one, with its unqiue objective of photogrammetric survey using sterophotographic techniques. 0- ca > C4 CD ca0 w cl w ri L. cm vs o m C3 ca ri0 C.) C, C6 @J co 4:0 Scm CTJ C, 0";@ Cc* C, WS--" %@ " - "-- &. -, 1@ V2 CS-:, aC, -<1 -1 %- -" . cl ci C% 0 r:: 26 v Wn -4 0ba -I-- Ilk Z::1 ci 0 = cl sc=j ci > es go cs >. C.0 0 > CA ,C) cj C7. IL- ed co -2: es sn Ln S: v C3 -C, 9- ci E cn C3 cd bo 1,:o , = =M,0 C, ,:s cz o E-4 S-0 v C) C3 C4J 0o0 tLo C, 'n. -zo -E, CA ba ri cl C, 4 0 P., a -0 -0. C* V: ci co C, C) C) r= .0 10 -c* tm ar 401 el ccj, "o, 00 to 0 cm, r Z62 C - I n, v-%I C) C3 cc Ln fj cl 6 . . I . >4 C13 C* cs tn P. 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Cameras According to Cook, divers plan to equipped with light intensifiers are retrieve the camera and the plate mounted on the fronts of the min- next week before the ships and subs subs. leave. Ed Link, vice president of Harbor Harbor Branch's role in the re- Branch Foundation and designer of covery mission probably will be the miniature submarines, got his limited to the photographic survey, but Link said the Foundation may first look at the Monitor last week. He said the corroded hull could be help recover the ship at a later date. "The Monitor is a real national raised, but that it would be a deli- cate operation. treasure and it should be made into The armored revolving turret, a museum," Link said. which earned the Monitor the nick- name "cheesebox on a raft," ap- Harbor Branch has invested about $100,000 in the project. apparently was dislodged from the ship The National Oceanic and Atmos when it struck the ocean bottom and pheric Administration (NOAA)is By LINDA HARBISON the turret is now under the wreck. cooperating with the private firm Post Staff Writer Link said it appears the displaced and has had a representative on one CAPE HATTERAS, N.C.- Scien- turret may be full of sand. of the two ships since July 17. "We think it's the ship's boilers Phillip C. Johnson, the NOAA tists seeking to recover the USS Monitor from its ocean grave 17 that are holding it up from the sea representative, said the area where miles off Cape Hatteras began tak- floor," he said. "All in all it is in a the Monitor sank has been declared ing precise measurements of the old badly disintegrated condition and a marine sanctuary and is protected by the federal government. battleship yesterday to determine if raising it will have to be done ex- it can be raised in one piece. extremely carefully and knowledge The first stage of the mission in- Two small submarines owned by a ably. volved a videotaped survey of the Monitor, designed by a Swedish en- Florida research foundation were "The ship can't be turned over. It's like a big platter," Link said. deployed to the wreck site where gineer to take the place of the old divers laid the groundwork for a wooden battleships. Link first became interested in lo- series of photographic surveys. The cating and recovering the wreck 25 The tape shows part of the ship's Civilv War ironclad has been upside years ago, before modern sonar frame is crushed and a small part down on the sea floor in about 230 equipment was available. missing, apparently damaged when feet of water since 1862 when it went The Monitor's resting place was it struck the seafloor. discovered in 1973 by scientists and An unmanned vehicle operated by down in a storm. The photographic technique that engineers who have since formed Harbor Branch performed the video- will be used to assess the condition the Monitor Research and Recovery taped survey. of the monitor, the first U.S. gun- Foundation of Beaufort, N.C. Cook said the operations are ahead boat armed with a revolving turret, Dr. Harold Edgerton, a professor of schedule because ocean conditions "is so damn accurate that scientists at the Massachussetts Institute of were calm Friday, allowing two in the lab will know exactly what Technology, helped develop the side- dives by the subs. Visibility under we're up against" said Roger Cook, scan sonar used to locate the ship. 230 feet of water was about 75 feet Edgerton took part in the 1973 expe- and currents, which can be as swift operations director for the project. dition and was invited to take part as 2 knots, were not strong. The technique is called photo- in the current project as observ- The divers who are transported to grammetry. er. the Wreck site via the sub, breathe a Cook and about 30 marine special- ists from the Harbor Branch Foun- Edgerton, the Inventor of the ultra mixture of oxygen and helium and high speed strobe light used in pho- must undergo about four hours of dation of Fort Pierce have beenn at tography, had another reason for be- decompression after each dive. the site for more than a week, but it was only two days ago that weather ing aboard the Johnson last week. The first diver to see the Monitor and ocean conditions were calm He lost a camera four years ago up close was Tim Askew of For enough to allow the subs to prepare after lowering it on a line over the Pierce. "It was fantastic," Askew said for the survey. "It's hard to explain how I felt when The area where the 172 foot Moni- tor sank more than a century ago I first came up to the ship excec that it was like looking back in "isn't called the graveyard of the Atlantic for nothing," Cook said. time." "The impression all of us have af Divers succeeded Friday in laying ter being up here for a while is that a photographic baseline of cord and floats about 15 feet from the ship. we just got a bit of history between our teeth," Cook said. "Here we are The line runs parallel with the working on a ship that went down 115 years ago. It gives us a real sense of excitement." The monitor sank during a violent storm while being towed to join land and sea Union attack on the strategic port city of Wilmington, N.C. The ship had sailed less than a year and fought only one sea battle. Its duel with the Merrimack was about 10 months earlier. -5 - t ZZ 4 e ; i@M 7 N�- MEN @i -sea'snooplng by_ Gene Melton, an, w-JHE BIG CAMERA Is readied to do its deep pleted!: ,electronic technician with Harbor Branch. The - powerful. cameras com photographing the Monitor on Monday, and the ships are on their way home. (UPI' Telephotol liw 707 R'11@ RPF", -- wn@@" R@ R, N, I""w -W _0 -1W IV,- � IPA -o - -T N kl. g 4.W R Q@= -W3E TIM ASKEW,a tech n Ician wit:h- Hi3rbor.'Bran-ch fo r --f o'u"r Ca.r.olina wa ters. As kew, who lives in Vero Beach, was lr@ years, peers out of the porthole.of the submersible used -::strumental In the construction of the, Sea Link II. (UPI! to reach the historic Monitor, 220 feet.under the North, @Telephoto) THE WAS4INGTON POST AUGUST 4. 1977 a atn" .,..1ecover8`A-: top rtts reck onitor Xen Rii3gilc@.*@- - -',W23.hlnx*ton Post staff writer@ But she didn't''float v4.er-y'.'wclI' The NOAA-Harbor Branch expedi- HATTERA@S, N.(@.,' 'Aug. 3-:-An un- Wheft tle gale struck, she: bega@ tion s@t crt to do much inore, includ- dersea band of divem technicians, ar- shippInt water heavily, Her tow ship, Ing a painstaking .-phoLogramnictria Ip Rhode Is-;: . Jitailed cheologists. and oceanologists. wound,the paddlewheel battlesh Survey of thewreck,@-. 6 photon I-Ellby C.-I the outside ard a fe-,., visible up a 17-day probe of the U.S.S.. Nlonl. land, had to cut her adrift* but sent a tor'wreck site-yesterday after recover- lifeboat back to rescue h6rji,63-man.@ inslde%. portions of:.the ship, and_tha@ riSili,rr oA' a loose metal armor plate for ing artifacts and plaqina the first.men. crew. i C) n the historic ironclad since it van-- metallurtyle ' analysig. Khawledge ed 115 years -amo. Oni` their third trip through. thei di n gamed from these tasks, acc..)i o. Working 220 feet beneath an 'often shrieking winds, and towering -seas,!, NOAA officials, -would permit govern-@ the rescuers from,.the Rhode Island nirnt scientists who have jurlsdjctiliil@, stormy sea on a site swe pt by fickle and potentially treacherous currents, saw-.the red distress light atop the- over tho wreck -site better to wet -the team returned with new and stun. Monitor's turret vanish In the night. -later decisions on whethez to attem,Ai At the ship's last location they found racuite itl ninff films of. the seldom-seen wreck only .ari eddy .In. the storm toszed sea. to raise the. Monitor or ev . f archeological photographs -and meas-.@ . 1, archeologically on the ocean floor.'-* s or the hull and turret, 200 For the next .111 years no trace of "'...The expedition."succeeded on v urement e ery pou, ds, of armor plate and an under- the Monitor or the 16 men.who sank@.'count despite. storms. 10-f oot seas`@ wal-er camera that had been snagged with her was f Dund. in the wreck when It was first discov. Her sinking continued to spark the cred four years ago. Imagination of wreck, hunters through They also discovered and brought: the years, and In 1973 a Duke UnIver- up a bucket-sized brass lantern that sity expedition, outfitted with the ar-'..' may be the same one wbose red light serial of electronic boxes that power a signaled the last trace of the Civil modern. undersea search, 1ocated the wreck 20 Miles Off Cape Hatteras [email protected] War vessel before it foundered In a gale off C:jpe Hatteras on Dee 31, 220 feet deep. .1862. The - latest expedition re turne d to North Carolina state archeologisi the site in mid-July with two surface ships, two small research submarines fiordon Watts said the Moriltor Is In and divers skilled In working, the haz- i-r beitar' ' shape than we :firs thought'. Most of the -deck plating t ardous depths beyond 1W. feet, appiars to be Intact and t The men and equipment' were he boilers - and t nulne-room 'machinery appear to largely donated to the government by be so: lid. We're very encouraued " Ile the Harbor Branch Foundation, a Is2ld h-@ thinks chances are eoxcellent large ',private foundation .. In Fort for eventually finding clues to the-fl. Pierce, Fla., headed by' an beir to the nal minutes of the men . Johnson and Johnson pharmaceutical who went down.w.ith the ship. fortune;1t',was ovitrseen by.officials- The Monitor was being tow e d "so@u-th" from the National Oceanogr@nphlc-and to Charleston, S.C.- at the time, bound @tmosphcric Administration, W further blockade duty of the em-'. battled Southern state3, The Duke expedition had returned Only nine months after her famous with only fragmentary 'television fllm.@ .11 Inconclusive battle will, the C6nfed. of the ?@Ionjtor, capsized -,n 'the oceall W,vi crate Ironclad VirgJnjl (formerly the floor.-her In 11VAPIon , Roaft the beneath the wreck:.-.@ revolutionary 170-100t "clicesebox on a raft" wa3 already hi5toric. A later U.S. Navy survey, usingo'the Tc3carch vessel . Alcoa . Seaprobe--a With her *,@ propLqler, rotating t of modified Glomar Explorer....r. Awrip, Sol plied a photo-mosaic of the wrecic "un turre 11 u r!- cC4 she altered Corn r@rcverthvco V naval warfart, in San 3rant6to "ronide Fri., Aug. 5, 1977 IM 41L Y, lv', 0"4 _V @64 q Ix gist Gordon Watts said the. Monitor! When :the gale'' st uc :working the.. any ous depths iction ov. tter@s, d. the wreck sitelo bett'ei er decisions on whether t( of divers, technicians, is In "far better shape th. an we first began shipping water heavily. Her @,'yond 100 feet. .4eigh lat attempt, to raise @he Monitor oi @'A thought @y..i j@@. Most,'of thq_@'..deck tow. ship,; the paddlewheel.' battle@! ,h sand. beeanologists.11'., oloe plating"appe'a'rs' to'be Intact and the'@'.*, ship Rhode Island, had, to'; cut her(-'@,' ;,k -The'men.:and equipment were' .-6 ca@ te'At irche6logicalij." i X y.@... a nM M ocean oor;@ 1. appea AQ be Aoun e ire @, very m 3-man crew " @,4;;l pjqitor'wret 6' i (I h;""i ,, @ , v ,u d up . j7-day probe. of ":the,,: boiler a and 6ngifii466in machine'r drift. but sent'a,, lifeboat back 19,1k 6 Mtgely'dohated to the gover site. W@dnesday @af- e@ d* W i'ies6e her 6. by the IlaibbrBiranch Fou d tio recov -Th A tidw Wccec( e oi %4 a large prfvate foundatiob I&Yort ering artifacts and plating uraged." lie said he'AhInks 1firsO men 'on the :Civil: War,,. encoi every count a . On "their tr p throug Ahe@ despite storMs, and ten Mclid since it vanished 115 years chances, are@ excellent for eventual-, Pierce Fla., headed by"an, e vilsi ...... 0 te -sbrieki the Johnson & Johnson pha i ac`-@I,fooi seas,'4dixotIc u*nde 'rwate lyfinding'cluest9th final,minu s ng win& and4owering seas, rm eu the rescuers fro fortune-',The expeditiow, of the men in the Rhode Islaiiii'@,,4, tical. 0. who went down.@ With.` 41' 1 A66 6 four saw tht red dis ress light Atop the 0 feet aild ocean bottor ,,,,-'W :1. ki 1'f @!!Abesjwp verseen.::by.-.':6ffjcjals from, t or lng'@ 220 i eet beneath': an . h currents tha'Ci:@aried: vastly'..j Monitor's turret vanish In the ing t, ten stormy sea on a site swept National Oceanograph,c,:An k entially treacherous f71 r@ n I t o@ r:'s a n. w:@ b 1 i6f It"' w@'as A t t h 6 @shlp's.jast Jocatio ftstrepgth and dir'ectlop"as the Gul Ale, and: pot' e M6 A @they@@j_i wosphericAdninistrati0fil'! irrents, the team members- re-, being towed south Ao Charleston found only an eddy@,ih the storm-1;,-, tStre6iii eddled over and round tb k'@ Inal @rned with new and stunning film S.C.,@ forlurther duty,.. in the block-".. tossed sea., 4 The Du 0. ex n c `!""V@shingsoa N4 q, wreck, archeological phot es.,',',' ill" 'years therq,,11-,@i urne wit pi y, rag 'enta A th ade of the Confederate stat f d I.:;`! For thefnext t was no trace of the Monitor or. the k-T MAW rapbs and - measurements of the jilm:ib pn f, A - -and turret, 200 pounds of Only - ffln6 h)onths after ber, 16 Inen who the -.,'ocean fIoorj-.-; sank.. her famous, if,incont lusive, battle with th @inor-plate,4nd an, underwater @jk characteristic turret ask@ Inea the Confederate iro B_ amera' that b2 ed In 1.vHl 1@ ;0'r; le" 1; nclad Vjrghi th wreck.! ad n snagg ie -Monitor' y@e)n!@ it i was first (formerly the Merrimack) In Hamp; @,iz It administra- lsicbV6red four years ago..@ ton, Roads, the revolutionary 171 .!i. jobt."che6seboi on a raft" I xpedition set a read ;@,id@lsc'ov,e;@red 'had @ place in naval history.--;',' re-10nade a A J,Z bu6ket-sized' b Mmetric, sur,- rou 0, int y, be the same one With. her screw propeller,,, ro@@ `@-rnfles off Cape Hatteras.in 20 f t.,.. vey o t e: ree and took detafle 'w "photographs of the'outside,anO ,hose i red. light. signqled the last tating.gun turret and low deck$t'@ '.,,of witer. lew visible Inside portions of the race of the@Civli War vessel before she altered forever the course bf!, .,'foundered In'. a gale'@ off Cape'-,,'naval warfare' in ship design'an Thq latest expedition' returned shili. Knowledge gained from th'ese 4 site 'in "mid-July ',with two tasks according to natIonqI oceanow ,c.34,1862.,,, @wrote an end to the age of latieras on De f ships,' two small r '@,gr phic officials, would ace. esearcb:.,. a permit gov-, W in is. Dl6ftfi'tirbl naiVate archeolo-,@:.It'r But she didn't float ver@' submarines and divers.@.. skilled ho have J@Q,, JL pi ern ent scientists w r er w 0 MONITOR-ING RESEARCHERS RETURN TO LINK PORT TONIGHT By ANN MARIE LIPINSKI Atlantic Ocean for more than 114 years. Herald Writer In addition to the the successful photogrammetric FORT PIERCE. When the travel-weary R-V survey - a precision photographic technique used to Johnson and Sea Diver skim into port early- Friday.. glean accurate measurements and ship scales - the there will be no champagne or confetti to greet the crew also located a camera that had been lost. vessels. But when the crew members report to the the sea during the 1973 expedition that discovered the Harbor Branch Foundation office that afternoon, Monitor. they'll be swamped. "We're ecstatic," said Harbor Branch spokeswom- ONE OF THE Harbor Branch divers found it dur- an Joy Quillen. "We've been sitting on pins and nee- ing the final hours of research Tuesday and sent it to dles - we're so anxious to discover what they the surface in an inflatable bag. found." "They picked up the camera, hoping it would still The two research ships, triumphant after their be good," said Harbor Branch engineering director photogrammetric survey of the historical Civil War Jean Buhler, "but we don't know yet if water leaked battleship Monitor off Cape Hatteras, N.C., are sched- into the camera or not." uled to return to the Link Port on Old Dixie Highway, just north of Fort Pierce, sometime after midnight. Also retrieved was a lantern and a deck plat which were aboard the Monitor when it sank during storm on Dec. 31,1862, less than a year after it was CREW MEMBERS from Fort Pierce's Harbor commissioned. The articles were brought to the surface in inflatable lift bags and are to be tested at Duke Branch Foundation, along with the: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the North Caroli University's laboratories in Beaufort, N.C. na. Department of Cultural Resources completed the Photos taken by the surveying crew will be used survey of the ironclad war ship on Tuesday. to develop a three-demensional model of the ship, and -The Monitor has been 220 feet, under water in the the surrounding area. 0 Weary, Salt-Encrusted Crews Dock At Link Port; First Order: Sleep By SALLY LATHAM News Tribune Staff Writer underseas know-how, was responsible for the ambitiours project tackled at the request of the National Oceanic and Atomospheric Ad- The weary and salt-encrusted crews of two reasearch vessels dis- ministration. The purpose, Dr. Cook explained, was to get a total embarked at the Link Port docks north of Fort Pierce at picture of the Monitor's characteristics, dimensions and condition. approximately 9 a.m. today with one shared thought in mind- with the ultimate goal of raising it and restoring it as a public getting at ;east 12 hours sleep in a land-stable bed. monument. The sailors, scientists, and technicians had been at seafor many This, however, will undoubtedly be several years away, he days-some as long as three weeks-on the Harbor Branch mission of said. site-surveying the historic Civil War Battleship Monitor. It is now a"public monument, in that the waters surrounding The old ironclad, which has been lying undisturbed for the past the Monitor were declared a marine sanctuary, one of two in the century on the bottom of the ocean off Cape Hatteras, was boared United States. But at a depth of 220 feet, its only veiwiers are fish for the first time since it sank in 1862 by Harbor Branch diver THE SHIPS ON the mission were the RV Johnson and the sea. Gene Melton, a submersible technician. Diver, both of which are equipped with submersibles. Two of three director of the entire mission. large seagoing vessels in the Harbor Branch fleet, they rode out the Harbor Branch Foundation, with its sophisticated equipment and tricky waters off Cape Hatteras without a problem, Dr.Cook said today. The Sea Diver left Link Port for the site on July 15, and was at sea for the three weeks. The RV Johnson went up a week later. The Johnson ran into wome heavy weather, " Dr Cook told The News Tribune. " When it got thre it was literally salt- encrusted. The planned threee-week mission was completed three days ahead of schedule, despite the tricky weather and currents for which Hatteras is so noted. One day we had a visibility of four feet and strong currnts on the bottom, Dr Cook related. But for the most the weather was good and we really took advantage of it. We'd start at 6 a.m. and work 'til 8 or 9 or 10 at night. The lanter found on the Monitor gave the divers a thrilling sense of history, Dr. Cook said. WE BELIEVE IT was the lantern they hoisted when they were sinking, as a distress signal. After reading the historical accounts, then going down there and finding it - that gave us chills, DR. Cook said. The lantern was retrieved and put in the diving compartment of the Sea Link by local diver Tim Askew. Also brought up was a piece of the Monitor's deckplate, for testing to determine the feasibility of bringing the craft up into the air. The camera reported recovered, in the United Press Inter- national story on Wednesday was more than justa camera. It was a 250 pound camera system worth $4,000 lost in the first Duke University expedition after the Monitor was located in 1973 " We hac hoped we could salvage the film as well as the camera, Dr. Cook said "but it was totall ruined. NEW TRIBUNE, August 5,1977 Ft. Plerce, Fl. AUGUST 15, 1977 ]@DITIC Y_ SCIENCE confused. inixed-up i@omplaine-d operations director Roger Cook of the flarbor Branch Foundation. "It never gives you more than two good days at a time." One (lay, for instance, the expedi- tion set sail tinder azure skies and pleas- ant breezes but by midafternoon winds -nots and Johnson were gitsting past 20 k skippcrjoeNlorg, nwasinumbling,"We gotta watch Tier close." I wo hours later, Cook gave a quiet order. "We're going to r recover the submarines." Good News: The next day proved hardly better. but despite squalls the divers w orked fist- Three minutes out of the batch of sub 2, diver Richard Roesch se- cured the lantern and eleven minutes ea ilv barnacled chunk of deck later. a h v plate burst tothe surface inside an orange helitim-filled lift bag. Melton had pro- vided more good news: the gun ports on the turret were closed, minimizing the c rrosion of its contents by the saltwater. o Next the researchers will analyze the culvff Plct@ photogriplis and artifacts to determine The Monitor sinking off Cape Hatteras: 115 years later, plans for recovery how best to preserve the ancient iron- clad. Ammig the possibilities: cutting it shore; tising Monitor Mission into sections to be lifted to the CIA's mothballed Clomar Explorer The tiny, windowed submarine nosed to pick it up in one piece-, and freezing a 200 feet deep into the waters off Cape hunk of water and mud around it, then Hatteras, N.C. Crammed into an observ- . ..... er bubble of the sub, 205-pound marine hauling the whole block into shallow water. Ceologist Newton warns the ar- archeologist Gordon Watts spotted what cheologists to decide fast. The Monitor looked like a beer can. No, said his com- lies at the lip of the continental shelf near lantern." -c panion Tim Ask--%v, "that's a a 16,000-foot undersea chasm. Last week the little sub brought the IS- -PETER GWYNNE w@h EVERT CLARK on Cap& Kz@ inch lantern to the surface for ecstatic archeologists to identify. It is almost cer- F tainly the red distress signal of the U.S.S. ---the last thing seen before the Monitor Union Navy's historic ironclad foun- dered in a storm in late 1862. The lantern added a dramatic bonus to a seventeen-day adventure that, because of treacherous waters, required the pre- .cision of a space rendezvous. Ever since the.wreckofthe Monitorwas discovered four years ago, archeologists have hoped 4! to determine whether the vessel remains sound enough to raise. Now they h ve ave y valuable new evidence to stud ; three- dimensional photographs ofthe ship and a motley collection of artifacts. Red lantern: The last s, t The Job: With its tapered hull and cir- cular armored turret, the "cheesebox on the ship which lies upside down on its a raft" gave birth to the modern battle- turret. "Incredible, just amazing," exult- ship. The Monitor did tbejob for which it ed Newton when he witnessed the pic- was built-standing off the Confeder- tures. Later the divers explored for treas- ates' armor-plated Merrimack at Harnp- ures, scrambling on hands and knees over ton Roads off the Virginia coast in'March sandthat shifted in mounds I ike dry snow. 1862-bUt less than ten months later it GeneMelton, a bronzed cave-diving spe- sank in the -graveyard of the Atlantic." cialist who may be the Erst human in 115 Scientists led by Duke University geolo- years to touch theMonit tor, surfaced with gist John Newton, discovered the ship in a sense of awe. "It was quite a shock," he 1973 and several expeditions have Sur- said after decompressing on the support VeVed it since then. ship R.V. Johnson, "so much tar-er than I This time scientists mounted an arma- thought it would be." da that included an unmanned subma- Topside crews spent much oftheir time_ rine, two four-man research subs ancl casting anxious looksat the sky. The clash three 5ttpport ships. They fi rstd ispatched ofthesouthbound Labrador Current and the unmanned craft to take video tapes of the northerly Gulf Stream "makes for a M 0 N I 1 0 R I S S 1 0 N N E W S R E L E A S-E JULY 18 ......... 2:30pm ........... FOUND MONITOR FIRST PASS WITH SIDE SCAN SONAR ......... TOMCUMMINGS' (KLEIN ASSOCIATES) ONBOARD ..... RIV JOHNSON to call SEA DIVER ON 8281.2 at 1500 hrs. WINDS 8 10 MPH ... SEAS CALM ..... LOST BAGGAGE OF COOK, FEILD, TIETZE AND SMOYER RECOVERED BY EASTERN AIRLINES ........ SEA DIVER EXPECTS TO FINISH AS PER OPS SCHEDULE FOR THIS DATE ..... WILL ANCHOR AT 1800 hrs. in shallow water M 0 N I 1 0 R. M I S S 1 0 N N E W R E E A S E JULY 19 ......... 10:15 am .......... FIRST DAY OPERATIONS A COMPLETE SUCCESS ...... I ... PERFECT SIDE SCAN DATA COLLECTED ON EVERY PASS UNDER SUPERVISION OF TOM CUMMINGS, @KLEIN ASSOCIATES REPRESENTATIVE .......... OPERATION SECURED AT 1930 HOURS. SECOND DAY ......... SEA GUARDIAN EXPERIENCING TROU13LE WITH THRUSTER HYDRAULIC PUMP DRIVE ......... REPAIRS UNDERWAY EXPECTED TO BE BACK ON STATION BY NOON ......... SURFACE CURRENTS 2-3 KNOTS ......... SEAS 3 To 4 FT .......... #Up' ir B U L L E T I N 3 Co .. . .. ....... ......... .... ... . ...... . M 0 N I 1 0- R M I S S 1 0 N N E 14 S R-E L E A S E JULY 20 ........ 3:30pm ......... SEA GUARDIAN STILL UNDERGOING MECHANICAL REPAIRS ........ EXPECT COMPLETION BY NOON THURSDAY (JULY 21) ........ WITH TRANSIT TO AN ANCHORAGE AT DIAMOND SHOALS @FOR THE NIGHT .... ...... OPERATIONS TO COMMENCE 6:00AN FRXDAY- (JULY 22) ...... B U L L E T I N 4 M 0 A I 1 0 R I S S 1 0 N N E W S E L E A E Thursday JULY 21 .... 1540 HRS .......... SEA GUARDIAN REPAIRS MOVXNG-ALONG ....... WILL CHALLENGE HATTERAS INLET TO RENDEZVOUS WITH SEA DIVER AT 1900 TONIGHT TO ANCHOR FOR THE NIGHT AT DIAMOND SHOALS ........ OPERATIONS TO. COMMENCE EARLY FRIDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY_--- WINDS HAVE MODERATED TO 10 KNOTS AND SEAS HAV17 SUBSXDED...-. RIV JOHNSON IS NOW SCHEDULED FOR DkPARTING LINK PORT AT JULY 23. 0800 SATURDAY 0 B U L L E T I N # . ..... . ......... .... M O N I T O R M I S S I 0 N N E W S R E L E A S E FRIDAY ... JULY 22 .... 1500 HRS ..... SUE FROESCHLE, NOAA, REPORTS VIA LAND LINE THAT SEA GUARDIAN HAS "LOST ALL POWER" AND THAT "EMERGENCY" RECOVERY PROCEDURE OF THE CORD IS IN PROCESS.....WILL REPORT LATER. 1900 HRS .... SUE REPORTS THAT CORD OBTAINED TWO REELS OF TAPE AND TWENTY - 70MM PHOTOS OF MONITOR.....VISIBILITY GOOD. SEA GUARDIAN EXPERIENCED THE SAME PROBLEM WITH THE DRIVE TRAIN TO HYDRAULIC SYSTEM THAT OCCURRED IN FLORIDA TWO MONTHS AGO AND AGAIN EARLIER THIS WEEK..... THE CORD AND CLUNCK HAVE BEEN RECOVERED WITH THE 12 VOLT-EMERGENCY WINCH ........ SEA DIVER AND SEA GUARDIAN WILL ANCHOR FOR THE NIGHT AND SEA GUARDIAN WILL PROCEED INTO HATTERAS SATURDAY AM....... THERE WILL BE NO OPERATIONS SATURDAY OR SUNDAY. SEA DIVER IS HAVING DIFFICULTIES WITH THE PORT MAIN TRANSMISSION. B U L L E T I N 6 .. ................. M 0 N-1 1 0 R M I S. S 1 0 N N E W S LEI- .E __8 S E SATURDAY..... JULY 23 ...... 1J:OOAM ...... ROGER CONFIRMS BY LAND LINE PREVIOUS COMMUNICATION., SEA'GUARDXAN IS BEING LOADED ABOARD TRAILER AT THE COAST GUARD STATION AND BEING READIED FOR RETURN TO LINK PORT. DIFFICULTIES WITH SONAR, STATION KEEPING, LSI VALVE, AUX- HYDRAULIC PUMP DRIVE COUPLING TOO RUCH TO REPAIR TO KEEP UP WITH. THE SCHEDULE. WHILE WORKING, SEA GUARDIAN DID ESTABLISH THE VISIBILITY ON THE BOTTOM AS OUTSTANDING AND THAT THE CURRENT WAS .3 KNOTS ........ :RIV JOHNSON IS UNDERWAY FROM LINK PORT AND-WILL ARRIVE AT THE SITE SUNDAY MIDNIGHT TO START OPERATIONS AT 0700. MONDAY 0 M-0 N I T O R M I S S I O N N E W S R E L E A S E July 25, 1977 ........ 1950 hrs ...... LAND LINE PHONE CONTACT WITH SUE FROESCHLE (NOAA) ......... JOHNSON-SEA-LINK II LAUNCHED AT 1300 HOURS WITH GORDON WATTS, N.C. STATE ARCHEOLOGIST ABOARD,AND J-S-L I LAUNCHED AT 1330 HRS. WITH DR. EDGERTON ABOARD AS OBSERVER ....... RECON MISSION .... LOADED THE STEREO CAMERAS AT TWO DIFFERENT F-STOPS AS A TEST FOR BEST EXPOSURE -- FILM TO BE DEVELOPED TONIGHT BY SMOYER ABOARD SEA DIVER..... VISIBILITY ONLY 20 TO 25 FT. AS COMPARED WITH 100+ FT. VISIBILITY ON CORD MISSION --- LOCATED AND OBSERVED THE EDGERTON CAMERA. LOCATED A LANTERN (POSSIBLE NAVIGATION LIGHT) ABOUT 30 FT. FROM MONITOR -- NO OTHER OBSTACLES IN THE VACINITY --- WIND AND SEAS BUILDING -- BOTH SUBMARINES RETRIEVED AT 1500 HRS. LOCK OUT OPERATIONS TO ESTABLISH "BASE LINE" SCHEDULED TO START AT 0700 TUESDAY. MIKE MULCAHY ISSUING UPI PRESS RELEASE WITHIN THE HOUR. . .. ....... .......... ... .. ...... . ...... M 0 N IT 0 R I S-S 1 0 N N E V1 S R E L E A S E ... ........... JULY 26 1520 HRS ........ SINGLE SIDE BAND CONTACT ON 150 WATTS ........... POOR COMMUNICATION BUT ROGER REPORTED THAT EACH SUB HAD MADE ONE 30 MINUTE DIVE ....... OPERATION ABORTED BECAUSE OF POOR VISIBILITY AND 1.5 KNOT CURRENT ON BOTTOM.... B U L L E T I N #9 .M O-N I 1 0 R M 1-5- S- 10 N N E W S R-E-t E A S E JULY 27 0943 HRS ...... SINGLE SIDE BAND CONTACT VIA LORAINE CALL SYSTEM ..... 1000 WATTS ..... LOUD AND CLEAR ...... INFO RECEIVED FROM ROGER COOK.... SEA DIVER STARTER ON STARBOARD ENGINE OUT HAVXNG ONE FLOWN IN ....... WEATHER :IMPROVED OVER TUESDAY ... (TUESDAY'S REPORT WAS: SEAS AND WINDS BUILDING) ........ SUB TO BE LAUNCHED AT 1013 TO CHECK BOTTOM VXSXBXLITY .... MR. LINK ANDDR. JONES TO ARRIVE TODAY.... -WILL CALL LINK PORT AT 1500 ..... B U L L E T I N #10 .. ............ . ...... M 0 1 1 0 R I S S 1 0 N N E W S R E L E A S ............ . JULY 27 ........ 1515 HRS ........... SINGLE SIDE BAND CALL FROM COOK ...... JOHNSON-SEA-LINK XX MADE LOCK@@OUT DIVE WITH 40 MINUTES BOTTOM TIME ....... DIVER IN CHAMBER AT THIS TIME ON 02 ....... VISIBILITY REPORTED 40 FT,- CURRENT CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN YESTERDAY ....... WIND AND CURRENT FROM 290 ......... SEAS BUILDING ........ 240.PHOTOS OF TURRET AND EDGERTON CAMERA SYSTEM TAKEN WITH SUBMARINE MOUNTED CAMERA AND 90 PHOTOS TAKEN WITH DIVER HAND HELD CA14ERA ...... THE DIV ER REPORTS THAT THE EDGERTON STROBE A,@D CAMERA ARE FLOODED ....... MESSRS. LINK AND JONES AND A NEW STARTER FOR THE SEA DIVER ENGINE WILL ARRIVE IN HATTERAS TONIGHT AND BE TRANSPORTED TO THE SITE BY CHARTER BOAT EARLY TOMORROW ....... RIV JOHNSON WILL CALL INTOMORROWAT 1100 HRS ..... 0 B U L L E T I N #11 ........ .... ... . . ...... M 0 N I T O R M I S S I O N N E W S R E L E A S E JULY 28 ..... 1015 HRS ......... SEAS RUNNING 6 to FEET .......... PLANNING ALONG LOCK-OUT DIVE TODAY TO SET "BASELINE" AND GRID ......... SEA DIVER BACK ON THE LINE .......... MESSRS. LINK AND JONES ABOARD.... 0 . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . M O N I T O R M I S S I 0 N N E W S R E L E A S E JULY 29 ..... 1715 HOURS ...... LORAINE CALL FROM R/V JOHNSON .... on STATION AT THIS HOUR READY TO MAKE 2nd LOCK-OUT FOR THE DAY ...... MR.LINK ABOARD J-S-L I FOR, 1st DIVE TODAY ..... VISIBILITY 70 FT ..... BASE LINE AND GRID SET ...... OPERATIONS SCHEDULED TO CONTINUE AT 0800 TOMORROW (SATURDAY) IF WEATHER HOLDS ...... SEA DIVER TRANSMISSION WILL BE "BOLTED-SOLID" FOR RETURN TO LINK PORT TO MAKE "MINIMAL" REPAIRS..... WE'LL PROCEED WITH PREPARATIONS FOR "CATERPILLER REPLACEMENT ......... MESSRS. LINK & JONES WILL RETURN TO HARBOR BRANCH ON SATURDAY OR SUNDAY.... . NEXT RADIO CONTACT SCHEDULED FOR 1030 HRS, SATURDAY MORNING 7/30 ....... - - - - - - - - - - MONITOR 1-1 1 SS 1 0 N N E W S BELF-ASE JULY 30 ...... 1031 HOURS ..... RIV JOHNSON CALLED BUT TOO ,MUCH.XNTERFERENCE TO BE UNDERSTANDABLE ...... 1040 HRS.....SEA DIVER REPORTED WINDS NOW 25-35 KNOTS N-W. ...-..SEAS 5 to 6 FT ....... LARGE SWELLS AND CHOP ON.TOP ....HOLDXNG FOR WEATHER ....... MR. LINK CONFIRMED MESSAGE FROM PREVIOUS DAY ALTHOUGH ALL TRANSMISSIONS WERE BROKEN UP BY POWERFUL CUBAN STATION. . NESSRS. LINK & JONES WILL BE IN LINK PORT ON MONDAY--,.--. 0 . . ........ ...... . M 0 N I T 0 R M I S S 1 0 N N E W S R E L E A S E AUGUST 1 0925 HRS ........ ROGER REPORTS YESTERDAY'S WEATHER WAS IDEAL ..... 2-3 FT SEAS....SURFACE SMOOTH .... CONDUCTED 2 - 4 HOUR DIVES AND 2 PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SURVEYS COMPLETED ALL TOPSIDE PHOTOGRAPHY.... THIS MORNING PLAN A DIVE USING COLOR FILM ...... 2 SUBS TO BE USED TO RECOVER CAMERA, PLATE AND LANTERN... PERMISSION TO RECOVER LANTERN IS EXPECTED BEFORE NOON TODAY....EXPECT COMPLETE WRAP-UP BY TOMORROW.... JOHN NEWTON AND GORDON WATTS ON BOARD ..... WILL CALL AGAIN AT 1600 HRS. TODAY .... EVERYTHING SHOULD BE COMPLETED BY THEN... .. .. ....... ........ .... . ... .. . M 0 N I 1 0 R M I S S 1 0 N N E W R E L E A E AUGUST 1, 1977 ------ 1730 HOURS ----- SEA DIVER REPORTS "VERTICAL"-COLOR PHOTOS TAKEN DURING MORNING DIVE. "OBLIQUE" COLOR PHOTOS TAKEN DURING AFTERNOON DIVE- `NO LOCKOUT DIVES MADE WEATHER BUILDING WIND AT THIS ,TIME 30 KNOTS. WILL TRY TO RETRIEVE BASELINE, GRID', EDGERTON CAMERA,_'PLATE AND LANTERN TOMORROW. B U L L E T I N 17 .. .. ....... ........ .... . ...... . ...... I 1 0 R 1-1 1 S S 1 0 N 11 E W RE L E A S-E ................ .... AUGUST 2 .... 1345 HRS ........ MIKE MULCAHY CALLED ON-- LANDLINE TO ADVISE THAT ROGER REPORTS ------- MISSION ACCOMPLXSHED!-11*- THE LANTERN, CAMERA AND PLATE WERE RECOVERED THIS MORNING BY RICHARD ROESCH ..... THE DIVERS WILL BE IN DECOMPRESSION UNTIL 1500 HRS ..... THE ARTIFACTS WILL B 'TRANSPORTED VIA RIV E JOHNSON TO THE DUKE MARINE LABORATORY'lN BEAUFORT, N.C. THIS AFTERNOON ...... SEA DIVER WILL PROCEED TO.RENDEZVOUS WITH.RIV JOHNSON AT THE BEAUFORT SEA BUOY ..... THEN BOTH VESSELS WILL TRAVEL TOGETHER TO LINK PORT. CBS AND NEWSWEEK REPORTERS ARE ONBOARD TODAY ..... 0 ........ .... . ...... M 0 N I T 0 R M I S S I O N N E W S R E L E A S E AUGUST 3 .......... 0940 HOURS ....... ROGER COOK AND TOM SMOYER PHONED FROM CEDAR ISLAND ON THEIR WAY TO CATCH THE FIRST PLANE HOME ..... R/V JOHNSON SAILED FROM THE MONITOR SITE A T 1630 HRS FOR A MIDNIGHT ARRIVAL AT THE DUKE MARINE LABORATORY IN BEAUFORT TO OFFLOAD THE ARTIFACTS ...... JOHNSON-SEA-LINK II RECOVERED THE BASELINE GRID AND DISTANCE POLE LEAVING THE SANCTUARY JUST AS THEY HAD FOUND IT..... SEA DIVER STAYED ON LOCATION TO RETRIEVE THE MOORINGS..... SEA DIVER AND R/V JOHNSON WERE SCHEDULED FOR AN 0100 HOUR RENDEZVOUS AT THE BEAUFORT SEA BUOY FOR RETURN TOGETHER TO LINK PORT....E.T.A. IS LATE THURSDAY EVENING ...... TONIGHT ON THE 6:30PM CBS WALTER CRONKITE NEWS, THERE WILL BE A TWO MINUTE SPECIAL COLOR VIDEO TAPE SHOWING ARTIFACTS AND HARBOR BRANCH CREW ........ IF IT DOES NOT MAKE THE NEWS TONIGHT, IT WILL BE SHOWN THURSDAY OR FRIDAY ....... 0 BULLETIN # 19 M O N I T O R M I S S I 0 N N E W S R E L E A S E AUGUST 3 ....... 1015 HOURS ..... REPORT FROM R/V JOHNSON ...... THEY ARE NOW 11-12 MILES SOUTH OF FRYING PAN SHOALS ----------- RECEIVED A BEAUTIFUL RECEPTION AT DUKE MARINE LABORATORY IN BEAUFORT YESTERDAY ..... DEPARTED BEAUFORT AT 0150 HOURS ....IN PURSUIT AND CATCHING UP TO SEA DIVER NOW.... E.T.A. DAYBREAK FRIDAY (APPROX.-0700 HRS.) ....... WEATHER 1S FAVORABLE -- NOT SMOOTH BUT FAIR........ NEXT COMMUNICATION FROM R/V JOHNSON AT 1630 TODAY... REPORT FROM SEA DIVER TRAVELING 9.1 KNOTS..... E.T.A. APPROX. 0700 HRS. FRIDAY ..... . . . . . . . . . . ........... M LT 0 R M I S S 1 0 N N E W -S R E L E A S E B-3-77 ------- 1635 HOURS ------- SEA DIVER REPORtS POSITION AS 70 MILES EAST OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLXNA, ON A HEADING OF 2450 WILL CALL TOMORROW AT 1100 HOURS WITH A NEW STATUS REPORT AND UPDATE OF ETA AT LINK PORT. 0 BULLETIN# 21 (FINAL) M O N I T O R M I S S I O N N E W S R E L E A S E AUGUST 5 .... 0830 HOURS ...... THE CREW ARRIVED ...... SAFE, SOUND AND TIRED ....... R/V JOHNSON FIRST To ARRIVE FOLLOWED SHORTLY BY SEA DIVER ...... LINK PORT RECEPTION COMMITTEE MET CREW AT DOCK ...... CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL FOR JOB WELL DONE!!!!! NOAA COASTAL SERVICES CTR LIBRARY 6668 141-108-40 D