11 JAN. 1989

 WEDNESDAY NEW SEA WATER PUMPS INSTALLED AND 75% OF MANIFOLDING COMPLETE AS OF TODAY. STATION GETTING SEA WATER FROM A CLEVER COMBINATION OF THE SUBMERSIBLE BACKED UP BY ONE OF THE OLD AMPCO PUMPS. ONLY PROBLEM WITH IT IS THAT THE SUBMERSIBLE INLET SCREEN GETS PLUGGED WITH KELP ETC. AND RICH GOT ME UP AT 0400 THIS MORNING BECAUSE WE HAD NO PRESSURE. OH WELL, HERB SHOULD HAVE THE NEW SYSTEM UP IN THREE MORE DAYS. KEEPING HIM ALERTED TO DUKE SCHED. CHANGES FOR HIS DEPARTURE AROUND 20 JAN. ARGENTINE ICE BREAKER, BAHIA PARIASO CALLED IN TO ANNOUNCE VISIT AT 0830 TOMORROW. THEY ARRIVE IN ARTHUR HARBOR AT 1800 THIS EVENING. SORRY TO REPORT ANOTHER CASE OF UNCALLED-FOR RUDENESS ON TONY'S PART DURING RADIO COMMS WITH BAHIA PARAISO, BETWEEN HE AND JOSE WHILE INTERPRETING FOR US. SEEMS I SPEND A LOT OF TIME THESE DAYS CALMING PEOPLE DOWN AFTER ENCOUNTERS WITH TONY. DWAINE AND ANDY HAVE THE ANTENNA CABLE IN PLACE FOR THE BONAPARTE CROSSING. THE PUMP HOUSE NOW HAS A NEW SKIN AND ROOF THANKS TO THUMP AND JIM. CMDR IS UP AND ABOUT AGAIN AFTER HIS BACK INJURY. HE WAS OUT FOR A FULL WEEK AND DOC HAS GIVEN HIM EXERCISES TO DO AND PERSCRIBED HOT TUB SOAKS THREE TIMES A DAY.