In the Cooperative Investigation of the Caribbean and Adjacent 

 Regions, ships from the United States, the Soviet Union, the United 

 Kingdom, France, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, and Jamaica 

 provided, for the first time, synoptic coverage of physical, chemical, 

 and biological features of nearly the entire Gulf of Mexico and a 

 significant part of the Western Caribbean Sea. 



Not all cooperative efforts are undertaken as part of a larger 

 international program. Some are conducted on an individual agency 

 basis. For example, the Royal New Zealand Navy Ship Tui, formerly 

 a U.S. Navy vessel, but now on loan, conducted a research cruise 

 over the Louisville Ridge in the South Pacific during the summer of 

 1973. U.S. Navy research contractors from the University of Hawaii 

 participated in the planning and execution of the cruise. This type of 

 cooperative effort is particularly fruitful for U.S. scientists because 

 the area studied is remote from U.S. bases and logistically difficult to 

 support. Further cooperative ventures are planned for the future. 



The Navy-owned vessel U.S.N.S. EJtanin,* which for a number of 

 years has been used in support of the NSF Antarctic Program, is 

 being loaned to Argentina and will be used for further cooperative 

 Antarctic research efforts between the United States and Argentina. 



* Renamed Islas Orcadas 

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