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Thirdly, for the coming fiscal year, has there been any cutoff of any 

 appropriation or authorization you have requested so that you are 

 without any major equipment or ancillary equipment, for example? 



Do you have a better equipped mother ship, or a better bathyscaph. 

 or a more mobile bathyscaph, that you might do better than, what is 

 it, 1 mile an hour laterally ? Have you been cut off ? 



There has been a rumor around that you have received a cut by 

 somebody. 



Dr. Rechnitzer. I think that we are being adequately funded for 

 the coming fiscal year, and that progress toward an adequate mother 

 ship is moving along just as fast as it is practicable. 



Mr. Fulton. Then you have not in any respect had an appropria- 

 tion cut, either in the current fiscal year, or a cut in the request for 

 authorization in the next fiscal year? 



Dr. Rechnitzer. We will not know probably until some time after 

 the end of the fiscal year just where we do stand. 



Mr. Fulton. Yes, but at the present time there is no cut that you are 

 complaining about ? 



Dr. Rechnitzer. No, I have no serious complaint. 



Mr. Fulton. Is the appropriation adequate enough to keep you 

 moving on your research on a level with the Russian effort ? 



Dr. Rechnitzer. Yes, as far as we can see in the coming year, we 

 will certainly continue to be ahead of the Russians. There is defi- 

 nitely room for expansion in this field. More people, better vehicles, 

 and more minds and hands need to be put to the task of getting more 

 manned vehicles into the deep sea. 



Mr. Fulton. Rather than take the time now, would you put in the 

 record a program where we could expand further bej-ond the present 

 plans? Put that in the record later. If we were going to expand the 

 program, how should we do it. 



Mr. Anfuso. Just put that in the record. 



(The material requested is as follows:) 



Supplement to Testimony by Dr. Andreas B. Rechnitzer to Committee on 

 Science and Astronautics, House of Representatives, April 28, 1960 



Mr. Fulton. If we are going to expand the deep-sea oceanography program, 

 how should it be done? What would you recommend for a continuing program? 



Dr. Rechnitzer. I consider it essential to the orderly progress of pursuing the 

 multitude of developments required for a more extensive manned exploration 

 of the deep sea that an expanded group of qualified scientists and support per- 

 sonnel be equipped with adequate facilities to pursue a program of deep sub- 

 mersibles and equipment development and to conduct basic and applied research 

 in and on the oceans. 



The team effort has proven its value in establishing many U.S. firsts. There- 

 fore, the complicated problems facing us in our plans to operate in the deep sea 

 should be tackled by a team of adequate size (I visualize a minimum of 25 

 scientists and 40 support personnel in addition to a civilian crew for a surface 

 mother ship) and a scientific program of wide scope that will assure continuity 

 and an economically sound expansion of our efforts by focusing technical and 

 professional competence in the direction of expanding our deep-sea research 

 capabilities. 



Rapid progress could be made most efficiently by expansion of the U.S. Navy 

 Electronics Laboratory group and facilities for deep-sea oceanographic research : 

 this would assure maximum utilization of: (a) oceanograpers already trained 

 in deep-sea research, (6) established logistic support of the only U.S. deep sub- 

 mersible (the bathyscaph Trieste), (c) the only U.S. personnel experienced in 

 operating in the great depths (bathyscaph crew), and (d) a Government re- 

 search and development facility already engaged in an oceanographic instru- 



