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Mr. Baiter. Now as to the funding, with respect to the Indian 

 Ocean, is that purely going to be funded by the National Science 

 Foundation? 



Mr. Wakelin. No, the Department of Commerce, the Department 

 of Interior, and the Department of the Navy have in their budgets 

 the support of the International Indian Ocean Expedition. 



Mr. Bauer. As far as the Navy is concerned, then, is it in the 

 interest of national defense that we look into the Indian Ocean? 



Mr. Wakelin. We consider it so; yes, sir. 



Mr. Bauer. More so than performing some other surveys that 

 could be made closer by? 



Mr. Wakelin. With respect to a priority of surveys, I would say 

 that the Indian Ocean Expedition does not compete in the exact 

 context of the term "survey." We are conducting detailed surveys in 

 the Atlantic and the Pacific, of course, in the national defense; but 

 the Indian Ocean Expedition is planned at present to be an overlook 

 of the whole Indian Ocean area, rather than a specific survey of that 

 area. 



We are performing meteorological research, physical, chemical 

 oceanography, biological oceanography, as a first look on an expedi- 

 tion basis rather than a detailed charting and hydrographic study of 

 the Indian Ocean. So, I think to answer your question, Mr. Bauer, 

 the survey there is part of the whole program, and not the principal 

 reason for our being in the Indian Ocean. 



Mr. Bauer. In other words, you have so much money in the Navy, 

 and you are going into the Indian Ocean with Office of Naval Re- 

 search money. Is that right? 



Mr. Wakelin. We are supplying ships and personnel for some 

 months' duty over the next 3 years in the Indian Ocean, as we can 

 see it possible through our operations at sea. 



Mr. Bauer. At this time, Mr. Chairman, I would like to introduce 

 an excerpt from the National Fisherman, volume 4, March 1962, 

 which says that the University of Rhode Island gets a hundred 

 thousand dollars grant to study circulation of the Indian Ocean at 

 the Equator. 



Mr. Dingell. Without objection, so ordered. 



(The excerpt referred to follows :) 



[From the National Fisherman, March 1962] 

 Rhode Island School Gets $100,000 Grant 



South Kingston, R.I. — The new school of oceanography of the University 

 of Rhode Island has received a $100,000 grant to study circulation in the Indian 

 Ocean at the Equator. 



The National Science Foundation made the grant to URI after it was dis- 

 covered that the Scripps Oceanographic Institution at La Jolla, Calif., which was 

 supposed to get it, had no one available to make the study. 



The reason: Dr. John A. Knauss, of the Scripps staff, had been hired to head 

 URI's new oceanographic school. 



As a result, Scripps agreed to make available the Argo, its 213-foot, 2,000-ton 

 former Navy salvage vessel, for the Indian Ocean study and URI will supply 

 Dr. Knauss and staff. 



The 30-month study will be made with an Australian vessel from July to 

 September this year and with several Japanese vessels from February to May 

 next year. 



