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Commander Alexander. Yes, sir; but, as I pointed out, we have 

 no agencies that have indicated that they have a requirement for a 

 purely biological ship. 



Mr. Bauer. That is rather strange, because I have a copy of the 

 requirements of the National Science Foundation which set up the 

 necessity of a biological ship for the Indian Ocean. I thought that 

 that was certainly under your cognizance. 



Commander Alexander. We have not considered it, sir. 



Mr. Bauer. Very well. Now, let me ask you a few things here. 



You mentioned in the organization of your panel that you have five 

 members that are ship design personnel. How many naval architects 

 do you have on the panel? 



Commander Alexander. I am not completely familiar with 

 whether they are naval architects. They are design personnel. We 

 have Capt. J. A. Mathison and Comdr. R. C. Darling, who work very 

 closely with the design features of ships for the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, Mr. L. C. Hoffman, and Mr. Vito Russo of the Maritime Ad- 

 ministration are both, I believe, design people, and Lt. Comdr. E. 

 Venning of the Bureau of Ships is a naval engineer, and I would pre- 

 sume that he is a naval architect. 



Mr. Bauer. In other words, when you say you have design per- 

 sonnel, that could be someone that sets up a requirement for what 

 they expect to get out of the ship; is that correct? 



Commander Alexander. No, sir. The people I listed as design 

 people are those that can give us specific technical information on 

 regular design features that you would expect to get from a naval 

 architect. 



Mr. Bauer. Now, you made a report, did you not, to the Chairman 

 of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography with respect to the 

 capabilities of the various Government agencies that are concerned 

 with the design, the supervision of design, and qualification of the 

 ship in its trials, and so on, did you not? 



Commander Alexander. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Bauer. And in that report, did you show that the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey had anything larger than a small staff to develop 

 preliminary design plans? 



Commander Alexander. I don't have a copy of the report with 

 me, Mr. Bauer. That report was sent to the Interagency Committee 

 and has since been forwarded to the Federal Council, but as I recall, 

 the Coast Survey does have a small staff, and we have two of their 

 members on the panel. 



Mr. Bauer. Are they capable of supervising the construction, the 

 trials, going into the details of design structure, or do they give it to 

 the Maritime Administration? 



Commander Alexander. The preliminary design and requirements 

 would be generated with the Coast Survey and the Maritime Admin- 

 istration mutually, and then the Maritime Administration would 

 handle the complete procedures thereafter. 



Mr. Bauer. What was the reaction of the U.S. Coast Guard to 

 your report? Do you happen to remember? 



Commander Alexander. No, sir; I don't recall that we received a 

 report from the Coast Guard. 



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

 this into the record. 



