76 ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCES 



SECTION 14 



Funds to accomplish the long-range program objectives of section 13 

 are provided in section 14. These include such sums as are necessarv 

 for— 



1. Construction of nine research ships of 1,200 to 1,500 tons dis- 

 placement, four of 2,000 to 3,000 tons displacement, and one of 300 

 tons. 



2. Construction of four survey ships of 1,200 to 1,500 tons displace- 

 ment and four of 2,000 or more tons displacement. 



3. Operations of research ships constructed by the Navy under 

 authorizations of S. 901 with a proviso that expenditures for operation 

 of the 1,200-1,500-ton ships not exceed $420,000 each per annum and 

 that for research and survey ships of more than 2,000 tons displace- 

 ment not exceed $700,000 each per annum. 



4. Modernization, improvement, and expansion of existing shore 

 facilities and construction of new shore facilities for research and 

 survey work. 



5. Operations in basic research other than ships. 



6. Engineering needs of the long-range program. 



7. Development, construction or acquisition of new and improved 

 vehicles, and instruments for ocean and Great Lakes research which 

 may include bathyscaphs, mesoscaphs, self-propelled deep sea data 

 collecting vehicles, other manned and unmanned submersibles, wave 

 measuring equipment, manned and unmanned buoys for automatic 

 continuous oceanographic recording, icebreakers and submarines 

 modified or converted for scientific use, vessel positioning systems, 

 seismic equipment, turbulence measuring devices, oceanographic 

 sound-velocity meters, precision echo sounders, acoustic telemetering 

 devices, navigation location transponders, audio-visual survei- 

 llance systems to monitor sources of biological noises in the oceans 

 or in the Great Lakes, submarine oceanographic plankton samplers, 

 hydrophotometers, fixed coastal acoustical-oceanographic monitoring 

 systems, marine geophysical gravity meters, marine geopi:ysical 

 electron resonance magnetometers, systems engineering for reduc- 

 tion of data, shipboard wave meters and dye detector probes, maiine 

 remote sensing and recording sj^stems, moored oceanic ambient noise 

 monitoring buoys, expendable oceanographic sensor systems, oceanog- 

 raphic sonic and radio frequency marine tags for monitoring marme 

 fishes and mammals, iproved midwater trawls, ocean sliipboard syn- 

 optic systems for use on weather ships, radar picket ships, and similar 

 vessels assigned to ocean stations; marine radioactive water samplers, 

 shipboard gamma ray detectors, marine geophysical underwater 

 cameras, geophysical sea floor television systems, sea floor sediment 

 samplers and anlyzcrs, sea floor dredge winches, constant tension cable 

 reels, moon d oceanographic buoy systems for recording and trans- 

 mission of unportant oceanographic and meteorological data in deep 

 ocean areas, marine sea floor geotherma] probes for determining heat 

 flow chara-t eristics and values, and other such devices, instruments, 

 iind systems as may be useful in studies of the current structure of 

 the oceans, oceanic temperatures, bottom topography, sediments, heat 

 flow through the ocean bottom, sound transmission and velocities, 

 ambient noise, biological activity in the marine environment and 

 specimens, water samples for salmities, phospliates, osygen, nitrogen, 



