use for control, right now, if it went to sea on this big program. 

 We have one ship exclusively on oceanography in the Northeast 

 Pacific. We selected the area because Loran-C which is available 

 there has just recently become operational. 



If w^e had to work in the South Pacific or if we had to do work 

 in the Southern Atlantic, there is no modern equipment today that 

 would give us the accuracy we need, nor the reliability. So we 

 would have to go back to using whatever we could, which is going 

 back to the sextant and to the astronomical fix. 



We certainly need instrumentation and we need it quickly. I 

 have enjoyed talking to you. 



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