the exception of four casts, all casts had maxi- 

 mum useful depths between 1250 and 1600 me- 

 ters. The four shallow casts had maximum use- 

 ful depths of 372, 693, 966, and 997 meters, due 

 mainly to bottles failing to release messengers. 

 Adverse weather caused difficult operating con- 

 ditions and a difficulty in maintaining station, 

 as can be seen in figure 10 which shows the 

 distribution of stations about the center of NO- 

 VEMBER. Four stations were taken about 90 

 miles south of Ocean Station NOVEMBER. 

 One deep cast was accomplished with a maxi- 

 mum sampling depth of 3964 meters in a water 

 depth of 4114 meters. All these data are listed 

 by NODC as Ref. No. 31-1200 and as Table 

 VIII of this report. 



During the 28 January-18 February 1968 

 patrol at Ocean Station NOVEMBER, the CGC 

 WACHUSETT occupied 10 oceanographic sta- 

 tions. All casts had maximum useful depths be- 

 tween 1300 and 1520 meters. A deep cast was 

 not accom.plished due to a limited amount of 

 cable available aboard ship. The distribution of 

 the stations about the center of NOVEMBER 

 is shown in figure 11. Daily casts were not ac- 

 complished during the entire three week period 

 due to adverse weather conditions. The data 

 are listed by NODC as Ref. No. 31-1205 and as 

 Table IX of this report. 



A total of 19 oceanographic stations were oc- 

 cupied by the CGC TANEY during the 18 

 February-10 March 1968 patrol at Ocean Sta- 

 tion NOVEMBER. With the exception of two 

 ca.sts all stations had maximum useful depths 

 between 1350 and 1950 meters. These two ex- 

 ceptions had maximum useful depths of only 

 449 and 861 meters due to the failure of a bot- 

 tle to trip and the pretripping of a bottle, 

 respectively; both these malfunctions being 

 probably caused by very large wire angles. No 

 deep cast was accomplished during this patrol. 

 One station was taken outside the Ocean Sta- 

 tion grid, about 90 miles directly south of sta- 

 tion and the distribution of the other stations 

 about the center of NOVEMBER is shown in 

 figure 12. The data are listed by NODC as Ref. 

 No. 31-1209 and as Table X of this report. 



On 19 February 1968 the CGC TANEY per- 

 formed the mooring of the Scripps Institution 

 of Oceanography oceanographic raft. The raft 

 was moored at 30°01.3 N., 139°56.6 W., in 



4300 meters of water. The raft's position was 

 checked throughout the remainder of the pa- 

 trol by celestial observations and it was found 

 that the raft was not drifting and that there 

 was a 0.3 knot current setting eastward. 



During the 10-31 March 1968 patrol by the 

 CGC PONTCHARTRAIN, a total of 19 oceano- 

 graphic stations were occupied. All stations 

 had maximum useful depths between 1350 and 

 1800 meters. One deep cast was accomplished 

 with a maximum sampling depth of 4213 me- 

 ters in a water depth of 4480 meters. Three 

 stations were occupied about 60 miles south of 

 Ocean Station NOVEMBER and the distribu- 

 tion of the other stations about the center of 

 NOVEMBER is shown in figure 13. The data 

 are listed by NODC as Ref. No. 31-1249 and as 

 Table XI of this report. 



The CGC PONTCHARTRAIN also occupied 

 22 of the 24 stations on Standard Monitoring 

 Section 6 between Ocean Station NOVEMBER 

 and Long Beach, California. These data are 

 also listed by NODC as Ref. No. 31-1249, but 

 will be published at a later date. 



COOPERATIVE PROJECTS 



Occasionally other observations are made on 

 station at the request of and in cooperation 

 with other government agencies or private in- 

 stitutions. In the past, these programs have in- 

 cluded the following: 



(1) Deep Free Vehicle Observations — 

 (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La 

 Jolla, California) 



Deep Current observations have been made 

 at Ocean Station NOVEMBER using a free ve- 

 hicle equipped with a recording current meter. 

 The vehicle is deployed from 2-5 days, returns 

 to the surface automatically and is retrieved. It 

 has employed an underwater camera. This re- 

 search is sponsored by the National Science 

 Foundation and is being conducted by Dr. Ri- 

 chard Schwartzlose. All data are retained at 

 the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 



(2) Survey of Fallout Cesivm in the Pacific 

 Ocean — (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) 



Since 1966 several Ocean Station Vessels on 

 Ocean Station NOVEMBER have collected 

 water samples and tested sampling equipment 

 for the determination of the distribution of 

 trace radioactive Cesium in the Pacific. The 



