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Mr. King. Thank you. 



Mr. Chairman, in the interest of time I will stop there. 



Mr. Anfuso. Mr. Van Pelt? 



Mr. Van Pelt. No questions. 



Mr. Fulton. May I ask a question ? 



Mr. Anfuso. Yes. 



Mr. Fulton. On the amount of research and. exploration that has 

 been made of the sea, graphically we know less about the bottom of the 

 sea, don't we, than we know about the surface of the Moon ? 



Dr. Brown. That is correct. We know more about the surface of 

 the Moon than we know about most bottom topography in the oceans. 



Mr. Fulton. Overall, Earth's people are very remiss in not making 

 an adequate research of their own planet ? 



Dr. Brow t n. That is correct. 



Mr. Fulton. Thank you. 



Mr. Anfuso. Thank you very much, Dr. Brown. 



I think this Committee on Oceanography is rather fortunate in 

 having you as its chairman, because you recognize the importance of 

 the security of our country in the field. Thank you very much. 



Dr. Brown. Thank you very much. 



Mr. Anfuso. Now, we have with us again this morning, some peo- 

 ple who have recently made history. 



We have Dr. Andreas B. Kechnitzer, Navy Electronics Laboratory, 

 San Diego, Calif. 



Will you please step up, sir? And with him are Captain Phelps, 

 Lieutenant Walsh, Lieutenant Shumaker. I am inserting in the 

 record at this point their biographies. 



(The biographies referred to are as follows :) 



Dr. Andreas B. Rechnitzer 



Dr. Andreas B. Rechnitzer is the scientist in charge of the bathyscaph pro- 

 gram, the continuing program of probing the ocean bottom, in the Navy's most 

 unique submersible, the Trieste. He is a biological oceanographer, with his 

 Ph. D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. On November 15, 

 1959, he descended 18,600 feet into the Marianas Trench, thereby bringing the 

 depth record for a manned descent back to the United States. 



He received the Distinguished Civilian Service Award from President Eisen- 

 hower on February 4, 1960. He is a life member of the National Geographic 

 Society, and was awarded the Richard Hopper Day Memorial Medal by the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in April of 1960. 



Dr. Rechnitzer was born in Escondido, Calif., and earned his bachelor of 

 science from Michigan State University in 1947. He is a member of Sigma Xi, 

 the Western Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Zoologists, and a 

 member of the National Academy of Science Panel on New Devices for Explor- 

 ing the Ocean. He has written a number of scientific papers on fish and bird 

 life, on pollution of ocean waters, and on scientific diving; and is a pioneer in the 

 development of self-contained diving equipment for scientific research. 



He and his wife, Martha Jean, have four children, and live in Solana Beach, 

 Calif. 



Capt. John M. Phelps, Commanding Officer and Director, Navy 

 Electronics Laboratory 



Captain John M. Phelps, U.S. Navy, has served as commanding officer and di- 

 rector of the Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, Calif., since August 1956. 

 Here he directs the activities of approximately 1,200 civilian scientists, engineers, 

 and technicians in a $25 million establishment. 



Captain Phelps compiled an impressive wartime record, participating in the 

 campaigns at Guadalcanal, in the Central Pacific, at Saipan and Tinian, at Iwo 



