• Vehicles: In general no issues. However, inadequate heavy plant was allocated by ANT NZ engineering to tow the New Harbour camp back to Scott Base. A D3 was sent while the D6 sat idol at Scott Base. There was no adequate explanation for this. The return trip was 22hrs in duration. It raised a number of safety issues for personnel driving the D3 and the accompanying Hagglunds. Mike Collins our mechanic had to relieve the ANT NZ plant operator who fell asleep in the D3. This placed undue stress on my team members who had just finished a physically demanding period of field work and placed all concerned in a dangerous situation

• Aircraft Operations: Helicopter operations - HNZ excellent and really helpful, some page 5 problems arose from miscommunication regarding aeromag survey requirements in advance. This could have been solved by earlier communication between GSW and pilots rather than backwards and forwards between several people - a sort of pre event brief in NZwould have been good. But I realise the final planning for this happened very late in the season and all problems were quickly solved on ice. But we could have ensured a more functional operation by sorting this out earlier. No blame on any party just an observation that a pre-brief in NZ to work through requirements would have helped.

  Major Issue with USAF over transport of Orica explosive product that could have jeopardised season (see above). However, we are very appreciative of the efforts made by Jim Cowie and Julian Tangaere that enabled fieldwork to continue. Particularly we are indebted to USAP "master blaster" for providing replacement product.

• Ship Operations: N/A

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