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We ask that this committee take whatever steps are appropriate and within 

 its power to further this imaginative project which will so greatly advance man's 

 understanding of the oceans. 



Table I. — Reach of drill required to achieve various objectives 



Source. — Pacific data from R. W. Raltt, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Atlantic 

 data from J. Worzel, G. Sutton, et al., Lament Geological Observatory. 



