RRS Discovery Cruise 100, 31 January - 4 April 1979. Some recollections 40 years on

"These notes contain a masterly account by Howard-. Thank goodness he has a good memory (and records?) I do recall the pleasure we all had at seeing Arthur Fisher at the dockside in Cape Town waiting to greet us. There is an old navy term-ship's husband-which describes the person who stays ashore and make sure that everything the ship and its crew needed is to hand when one returns to port. That's Arthur. The physical oceanography was a wash out! We launched and deployed deep current meters for a year's deployment but a planned recovery a year later from the South African research ship drew a blank! The weather was only surpassed in my experience when John Swallow and I and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution colleagues were caught in a hurricane on the RV Aries returning to Bermuda (and that was only one day) in September 1959. I have a recollection that station 10000 may have been very close to where Dr Deacon made his first hydro station circa 1927 in RRS Discovery II"