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HARRY DISHMAN
Pag-e 12
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 11, 1973
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‘Texas Clipper’ Makes Satellite Histo:
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GALVESTON — Satellite his
tory was made last week when
A&M’s maritime training ship,
the “Texas Clipper," became the
first ocean vessel to transmit
voice communications and photo
graphs during a solar eclipse.
The training ship, on station
some 510 miles west north-west
of Dakar and 35 miles north of
Santo Antao in the Cape Verde
Lslands, served as a floating ob
servation platform for scientists
studying the longest duration
eclipse of the sun for the next
177 years.
“We are in total darkness
now,” Dr. William H. Clayton,
Dean of TAMU’s Moody College
of Marine Sciences and Maritime
Resources, radioed during the
eclipse. “We can see the stars and
have a perfectly open view of the
eclipse.”
Overcast skies had threatened
the scientific expedition on board
the “Clipper,” but a National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin
istration (NOAA) NOAA II
weather satellite provided infor
mation to the crew to enable the
“Clipper” to find a “window” in
the cloud cover. Total eclipse was
marked by the “Clipper” at 10:22
GMT (5:22 a.m. CDT).
Tim Robertson, a graduate stu
dent in oceapongraphy at A&M
from Bryan, served as communi
cations technician aboard the
“Clipper,” operating the commu
nications equipment on loan from
NASA used in the study.
“It's getting kind of dark here,”
he radioed to the Mitchell Cam
pus of TAMU at Galveston dur
ing the eclipse. “The eclipse is in
totality now, and it's the most
fantastic thing I’ve ever seen.”
Students and crew members
aboard the “Clipper” were provid
ed with exposed X-ray film to
view the eclipse, according to
Adm. John W. Smith, superinten
dent of the Texas Maritime Acad
emy, a division of TAMU.
Capt. Alfred Philbrick, assist
ant superintendent of TMA and
captain of the “Clipper,” said the
ship reached its station in the At
lantic about 4 a.m. GMT Saturday
morning.
“We made extensive use of the
NOAA II weather satellite in lo
cating a clear area,” he said. “We
also utilized the ATS (Applica
tions Technology Satellite) III
communications satellite to trans
mit our information back to Gal
veston.”
The “Clipper’s” radio signals
were bounced off the ATS III sat
ellite then received at Rosman,
N. C. receiving station. The sig
nal was then patched into tele
phone lines and relayed to Galves
ton.
A scientific expedition from
Scripps Institution of Oceano
graphy, headed by Dr. Elizabeth
Kampa, reported successful com
pletion of its studies of color and
temperature of the sea and small
sea animal migration during the
eclipse.
James Alan Teeter, a graduate
from Houston’s Lamar High and
participant in A&M’s “Summer
School at Sea” program, and
Stephen Douglas Devoy, an Au
gust TMA graduate from Galves
ton, described a phenomenon as
sociated with total eclipses-“Bai-
ley’s Beads.”
“When the eclipse began to
fade,” Devoy said, “we saw a
diamond effect around the sun
called ‘Bailey’s Beads.’ It was
really spectacular.” For almost
seven minutes the “Clipper” was
in total darkness.
Teeter said an eclipse of this
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til 2150. “I am glad I got to
see this one,” he said, “since I
doubt that I’ll be around for the
next one.”
The “Clipper” was one of three
vessels bearing American scien
tists studying the eclipse. One of
them, the “Canberra,” contained
scientists from Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute and MIT.
Unable to communicate with the
weather satellite, the “Canberra”
relied on radio reports from the
“Clipper” to find clear skies.
The “Clipper” and other Amer
ican ships joined by a Soviet re
search vessel, according to Dr.
William H. Clayton.
“The Russians were firing me
teorological rockets,” Dean Clay-
we’vjjj.
ton reported, “and all other
had to stay from 60 to 70
away from their ship.”
“We are anxious to shj,
wealth of information
ed from this expedition,"
Clayton radioed after the
had passed. “The eooperati
tween A&M, NASA,
the Navy helped make
unique cooperative effort
ble.”
The “Clipper” transmitted
eral photos via the ATS 111
ellite, including a photo of!
President Jack K. Williams,
as Governor Dolph Briscoe
other state and university
cials. A rendition of the “Ai
War Hymn,” also was transit
during a lull in conversation!
Veterinarians Finish WorksbU
More than 30 Texas veterina
rians and veterinary technicians
have completed a clinical bacte
riology and mycology workshop
held by the College of Veterinary
Medicine.
Instructed by Dr. Russell B.
Simpson, assistant professor of
veterinary microbiology, the
course was offered for practicing
veterinarians and technicians
through the Continuing Education
Council in TAMU’s veterinary
school.
Subjects covered in the course
included rapid identification of
common bacterial and mycotic
pathogens, performance and inter
pretation of antibiotic suk
bility tests and improvemeEl
techniques used by the particil
ing veterinarians and technirij
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media and culture technique^
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