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<p>RELEASE NO. 033-74<br><br>STORY AND PHOTOS BY<br>JOl KIRBY HARRISON<br><br>5 SEPTEMBER 1974<br><br>PEARL HARBOR - Navy medical researchers of the Office of Naval Research's Clinical Investigation Center at Oakland Navy Regional Medical Center are presently studying the results of tests run on two Naval Reservists who spent 54 days on the Pacific Ocean in a rubber boat and survived on a diet of candy, vitamins and fresh water from a solar still. The CIC is a research organization funded and manned jointly by the Office of Naval Research and the University of California Medical Center at San Francisco.<br><br>LT. George Sigler, USNR, 29, and LT Charles Gore, USNR, 27, left Oakland July 4 on a 15-foot rubber boat equipped only with a small sail, a survival kit of their own design and emergency rations. They were picked up 140 miles northeast of Oahu, Hawaii, August 28 by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cape Corwin.<br><br>Sigler and Gore undertook the voyage as a private venture to test survival kits they manufacture for use by castaway mariners, or downed aviators stranded at sea. Both men are Naval Reserve pilots who formerly flew off aircraft carriers in the Pacific area.<br></p>
<br>Subjects: Office of Naval Research; NRMC Oakland; survival</div>
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U.S. Navy. Pacific Fleet</div>
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