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ment by industry. It is essential that the dis- 

 tinction be clearly made between what private 

 industry should do for itself under profit 

 motivation and what the Government should 

 do to assist. The distinction must he reason- 

 able and clearly understood by all partici- 

 pants. The advice and counsel of the broadly 

 based National Advisory Committee on the 

 Oceans (NACO) recommended in Chapter 

 7 will be of great value in making this distinc- 

 tion. 



The lo,000-ton, sciiiistibnicrsiMc 

 drilling rig Sea Quest is towed 

 from )icr hiiildcr's yard in Northcrii 

 Ireland cnroute to work in the 

 stormy North Sea. Use of such 

 platforms by the petroleum industry 

 has proved that this concept is 

 technically sound and susceptible of 

 further d<V( lopmcnt to provide 

 large, stable, multipurpose ocean 

 platforms for a variety of uses. 



The Commission recommends that in- 

 dustry participate in planning and con- 

 ducting National Projects, in some cases 

 under contract with the managing agency 

 and in others by using a Federally owned 

 facility on a cost-reimbursable basis or 

 under other cooperative arrangement. 



Effecting this recommendation will permit 

 industry to become familiar with the ob- 

 jectives, characteristics, problems, and op- 

 portunities that become apparent through 

 planning and development. In this way, too, 

 industry will be stimulated to seek aggres- 

 sively possible commercial applications of 

 new teclinology. The Government's arrange- 

 ments for industry participation should be 

 highly flexible and consistent with the prem- 

 ise that the Government seek maximum 

 utilization of private capabilities. Through 

 similar reliance on private firms for military 

 aircraft development, civil aviation was 

 stimulated. 



Participation of the academic community 

 will be particularly valuable in applying its 

 excellent research competence and facilities 

 to the problems of fundamental technology. 

 In many cases, industry has turned to aca- 

 demic scientists and engineers both for the 

 development of design criteria and for the 

 testing of principles and actual designs. Such 

 cooperation should be enlarged and strength- 

 ened through cooperative programs to en- 

 courage industry's reliance on the academic 

 community and through Govermnent sup- 

 port to colleges and departments with ocean 

 engineering competence. This also will con- 

 tribute to the education of engineei's oriented 

 to marine problems. 



The role of academic engineers is of prime 

 importance in the deployment of technologi- 

 cal capability for scientific research. Increas- 

 ing cooperation between the scientific and 



