1. Facilitating transport and trade. 



2. Developing nonliving marine resources. 



3. Gaining a greater understanding of the marine environment and an 

 improved ability to predict its processes. 



4. Improving national use of ocean data. 



5. Strengthening military programs for national security. 



6. Accelerating use of food from the sea. 



7. Improving the training and education of marine science manpower. 



8. Expanding national capabilities to work in the sea. 



The two remaining chapters on international policy and the International 

 Decade of Ocean Exploration describe the substantial increase in interna- 

 Uonal oceanic activities, U.S. foreign policy initiatives, United Nations 

 activities relating to the world ocean and seabed, and the decision nationally 

 and internationally to implement an International Decade of Ocean 

 Exploration. 



The decision to proceed with the five-point program reveals an important 

 consideration bearing on the broad spectrum of U.S. marine science 

 activities: The more the Nation uses the marine environment, the more 

 knowledge it finds it requires. New problems point to the need for intensified 

 study and wise management of marine resources if the Nation is to extract 

 benefits over the long term. 



The app>endices provide detailed marine sciences program and budgetary 

 information for fiscal years 1969-71 and include — 



(1) Federal legislation and congressional resolutions relating to the 

 marine sciences; 



(2) Marine Sciences Council activities, contracts, reports, and 

 testimony ; 



(3) International marine science activities, including resolutions of 

 the XXIVth U.N. General Assembly, and the draft seabed arms control 

 treaty ; 



(4) Sea Grants projects and programs; and 



(5) Listings of U.S. oceanographic ships and undersea vehicles, and 

 hyperbaric facilities in the United States. 



