Status Report #2 Aug 21 6:21 am Cold Harbor, 10:21 am Boston
Bruce
As stated in our first report it is important that we meet up with Pete, Art, Kale and their crews. If we get a break in the weather we will try again today. There are several reasons.
We want to learn the results of the search for four Japanese ships, the submarine I-9, Sub Chasers 25 & 27 and the destroyer Arare. This was our attempt to mimic in a small way the contributions that Yutaka and Minoru have made to this project.
We need From Art and his crew a fast 101 course in how to read sonar (in contrast to photographic) images, in particular sonar shadows. They are not the same and it may help us determine whether the images are the Grunion.
Pete has about 20 hours of HD video tapes of the entire project. Because of the new airline rules, to get them back to Boston they would have to be either checked or mailed. The risk is too great. We will bring them back with us.
This meeting is an important step in a project that is far from over in determining what happened to 70 men of the Grunion in the early morning of July 30, 1942.