performance. He begins to suspect that the measurement of some- 

 thing else may teach him more about the oceans. He devises some 

 gadgets to do this. Perhaps the results fail to interest him at all 

 and he abandons this tack completely. Perhaps it leads him into 

 something more exciting than he ever imagined. Each new measure- 

 ment is a speculation, and if one could be sure which measurements 

 would pay off, the game would not really be worth playing. 



Captain Hendrix's group prepared a document which has been 

 circulated at this meeting laying out the requirements for a set of 

 instruments for survey ships (appendix E). Captain Fusselman 

 and Mr. Jaffe have both discussed parts of this set of instruments. 

 These instruments are being asked to do the reasonably possible 

 in light of what oceanographer s know about the oceans and about 

 instruments, and to measure the sort of things we are fairly 

 sure we would like to measure. 



If these instruments come into being, they would represent 

 a marked advance over present capabilities; and if they should 

 become available tomorrow, it would be perhaps several years 

 before the researchers had caught up with thenn and learned 

 anywhere close to all that they can get with these instruments. 



We hope that American technology can do these things for us. 

 If we sometimes appear pessimistic, it is because we have not yet 

 seen a real try. We are still hoping to get the first-class, reliable, 

 reversing thermometers, which were available some years back. 

 We hoped for a long time that the bathythermograph would be 

 improved to the point where we could get an instrunnent with a 

 uniform rectilinear calibration. Right now, we would even be 

 happy if we could get bathythermographs as good as the ones we 

 had in 1945. We have been disappointed, but we still have faith 

 that better days are ahead. 



Many of you have had, or will have, dealings with the people 

 in the research laboratories. Representatives of at least 20 per- 

 cent of the companies here today have visited my own obscure and 

 rather unprofitable office. In case you interpret this otherwise, 

 I have enjoyed meeting you. But I wonder if you understand the 

 people in the laboratories? 



Most of us got into oceanography for the fun of it. Up until 

 very recently there was little chance of any more concrete rewards. 

 We in the laboratories either do not have funds to finance new 



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