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Status Report August 27th

( general )

Donovan
Well, the search for the USS Grunion is now in the can.
We’re on our way back to Adak, after a long and grinding day of searching yesterday. We began yesterday (Sunday, 8/26) in a search at the second site for the Japanese Destroyer Arare, which, once again, eluded our discovery. Though we worked slowly […]

Google Earth View of the Area

( Photos )

Thought you all might like to see the island of Kiska. You can download the GoogleEarth viewer from http://earth.google.com/index.html
Be sure to see the photos of the search at “Search 07 Photos”

Status Report August 26th #2

Donovan
Greetings from Kiska Harbor. Yesterday (8/25), we spent the day in-harbor, hemmed in by both the weather and the fact that the lift and pan gears on the Max Rover’s HiDef camera needed to be repaired, as they’d been rattled loose in the past few days of heavy Max-Rover use.
To make use of the day, […]

Status Report August 26th

( general )

Bruce, Newton MA
Last night (Saturday) at 8:15 both of our phone lines AND the internet connection went dead. Major problem since this is the communication center for the project.
Called RCN. They said couldn’t be fixed until Monday sometime!!!!!
Got up at 2:00 am and went outside with flashlight to see if I could find downed […]

Status Report August 25th

( general )

Donovan:
Here’s the news of yesterday: We awoke in Kiska Harbor, after a long night of scanning the video and still photos, and found the nights fog and rain and wind apparently lifting a bit. Interested in doing more underwater exploration, we decided to go after the Japanese Destroyer Arare, sunk just outside Kiska Harbor in […]