generally useful instruments or devices will become generally 

 adopted. The frequent loss of instruments at sea is a decided fact- 

 or in favor of manufacturers. The design of survey type instru- 

 ments will be frozen from timie to timie and prototypes and produc- 

 tion units will be obtained. The much wider use of electrical cables 

 and telemetering will have a profound influence on the kind of equip- 

 ment used by oceanographer s. 



These are some of the directions oceanography may take in 

 developing and using instruments. The potential instrument 

 market will be built up as new instruinents and techniques prove 

 that better and more measurements can provide a much better 

 picture of what is going on in the ocean. 



A typical example of this progress is that just in the last 

 two years since the initial oceanwide survey recommendations 

 made by NASCO in 1959, instrument development has progressed 

 sufficiently to enable oceanographer s to plan seriously for much 

 better surveys than initially suggested. 



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