VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



We would like to thank: the U.S. Coast 

 Guard, for providing ship-time and facilities 

 and making the operation of this investigation 

 possible; the U.S. Coast Guard Oceanographic 

 Unit, Washington, D.C., for coordinating the 

 program ; the Captain, officers and men of the 

 USCGC ROCKAWAY (WAGO 377), for their 

 support in the work at sea ; Messrs. Robert K. 

 Oser and Martin G. Fagot, Naval Oceano- 

 graphic Office, Washington, D.C. for lending 



and operating a camera rig which resulted in 

 much of the information presented in this 

 paper ; Mr. H. Sheng, for compilation of bathy- 

 metric data; and the Smithsonian Institution 

 Research Foundation for funds in support of 

 this continuing program. This work was un- 

 dertaken while Kelling was an NRC Visiting 

 Research Associate at the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, on leave from the University of Wales, 

 Swansea, Great Britain. 



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