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be carried out in U.S. shipyards. Deviations from this policy may be approved 

 only by the head of the agency receiving the appropriation. 



(c) There are no formal Coast Guard or American Bureau of Shipping require- 

 ments established specifically for oceanographic ships. This causes a certain 

 amount of confusion among designers as to whether cargo or passenger ship 

 standards should prevail. The establishment of a category of oceanographic ship 

 would remove this confusion. 



Recommendation: It is recommended that the Coast Guard and American 

 Bureau of Shipping be requested to investigate the feasibility of establishing an 

 oceanographic ship category. In the event it is feasible to establish such a cate- 

 gory it is further recommended that all U.S. oceanographic ships in excess of 300 

 gross tons be constructed in accordance with the requirements to be established 

 by the Coast Guard and/or American Bureau of Shipping. 



R. J. Alexander. 



Mr. Bauer. Now, what do you mean by operating experience? 



Commander Alexander. These men have been to sea on oceano- 

 graphic ships for a very long time. 



Mr. Bauer. Has Mr. Couper ever been at sea in an oceanographic 

 ship? 



Commander Alexander. Mr. Couper has been at sea; yes. 



Mr. Bauer. On an oceanographic ship? 



Commander Alexander. Yes, sir; Mr. Couper, before he worked 

 in the Bureau of Ships, was employed at the Navy Hydrographic 

 Office, and is an experienced oceanographer. 



Mr. Bauer. I see. In other words, the operation comes from the 

 fact that you go to sea on an oceanographic ship; is that correct? 



Commander Alexander. As an oceanographer. 



Mr. Bauer. How about Mr. Eckels? 



Commander Alexander. Mr. Eckels is a biologist, and he has been 

 to sea on Bureau of Commercial Fisheries ships. 



Mr. Bauer. Now not as an oceanographer? 



Commander Alexander. I presume that a fisheries expert would 

 be an oceanographer. 



Mr. Bauer. How about Mr. Hoffman? 



Commander Alexander. Mr. Hoffman is one of the men I listed 

 as being in design personnel. 



Mr. Bauer. He is in design? 



Commander Alexander. Yes, sir; he is in Maritime Administra- 

 tion design. 



Mr. Bauer. In other words, operations, to be an operator you must 

 have gone to sea as an oceanographer. Is that correct? 



Commander Alexander. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Bauer. Now, on page 4 of your statement, one of the functions 

 seems to be of your working group that you publish charts showing- 

 areas for operations of research and surve} 7 ships. 



Commander Alexander. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Bauer. Why doesn't that come logically under the survey 

 panel? 



Commander Alexander. We were 



Mr. Bauer. You make the decision, in other words, as to where the 

 ships go, or do you just take the information from the survey panel 

 and put it on a chart? 



Commander Alexander. Well, this was just developed by the 

 panel as a part of its report. In our original report, we listed the 

 characteristics of all of the oceanographic ships within the United 

 States and we thought it would be a good idea, while we had this 



