Richard,

Pardon my ignorance, but does "nm" stand for "nanometer"? How far is that?

Gene.

On Thu, 21 Dec 1995 PAGODROMA at aol.com wrote:
>
> Bob Pitman (San Diego, CA), Mike Force (Vancouver, BC), and I (Seattle,WA),
> et.al. were involved in a marine mammal cruise onboard the NOAA R/V
> *Surveyor* in late July 1994, and logged four sightings of Cook's Petrels (2,
> 1, 3, 1) well off the Washington and Oregon coast, ~75 - 275 nm, along with
> quite a few Xantus murrelets, and hundreds of long-tailed jaegers.
> Unfortunately, our record keeping was really sketchy. Mike kept the 'sort
> of'' *best* notes, and I have just talked with him this morning to see if we
> can pull some of this together and make something useful out of it. I'm
> trying to dredge up my own notes, but as memory serves, I think the first two
> (pair) were ~75nm off Westport / Gray's Canyon area.
>