Photo (left):View of the southeast Nauru coast at low tide from the Menen Hotel, where many Nauru99 workers and visitors reside. Swimming and snorkeling generally is not safe because of riptides and jagged coral spires. Other snapshots from the Ron Brown

Commentary:

We completed 11 circumnavigations of the island in 23.8 hours at 8:30 this morning; all circuits, except one (3 km distant), were at 1 km from the coast. Chlorophyll samples taken en route indicate increased chlorophyll productivity in the water below the cloud of phosphate from dockside loading operations. Chuck Pavloski and ship's engineers Mike Gowan and Pat McManus visited the Atmosphere Radiation and Cloud Station (ARCS) site to fix sun photometers and air conditioners; both efforts were successful. The ship will hold position 2 km offshore on the windward side of the island until tomorrow morning; then we plan to move to characterize the gradient of the island's aerosol plume downwind from Nauru, provided phosphate loading has ceased.

Mystery of the day: Will Jeff Otten's luggage appear at midnight? (The reverse Cinderella effect.)

Visual Observations:

Diffuse sunlight all day today because of cirrus, plus scattered lower clouds. Wind is moderate. No whitecaps.

Instrument Status:

No change. All is well.

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