The Search for the Grunion Blog

Status Report August 17th
Art:

We are running AMS-60 lines past the Grunion on a 250 meter swath. After we
get one or two more good imagery pics we will shift to the I-9 area for
about four hours to relook at 3 possible targets on two short lines. Then
we will shift to the CH 25/27-Arare area tomorrow. I know I-9 does not fit
into the Grunion story, but since we are here we should give her some time.

If you could shift your flight to Sunday, we would have time to fit
everything in. [We have]

Calm seas, gentle swells and light airs still bless us but we did not see
the sun today.

We are beginning to learn more about the current north of McArthur Reef.
Although we drove the ship exactly where we wanted to go, the towfish was
300 meters offline. The area immediately around Grunion is usually one big
tiderip. We do lots of reruns on these short lines.

Pete:

Could you send me the painting of the sub chasers from the sub photo web
site linked to on the search for the Grunion page to aid the sonar processor
in his identification. Also do you have a photo of the Arare or I-9?

Art said you are flying up this weekend. Cant wait to see you.

All is well here.

Pete:

Here are some unprocessed raw sonar snap shots of our latest 250 meter swath pass.

I have shot about 20 hours of tape.

I will select some good clips for a segment and also do some wrap up interviews with Art, Kale and their crews.

Could you send us the globe article?

I just notice that the Grunion was determined lost on the 16th of August and our first good pass was on the 16th also.

Bruce

We plan to search for four Japanese ships that were sunk in WWII in what might be called a form of international compassion. One is the I-9 for which we have no photo There are two sub chasers CH 24 and CH26 that were sunk by the Grunion and a sister ship is shown below.

The other is the Arare sunk by the Growler and a sister ship is shown below.

Finally we have some miscellaneous shots that came in recently.