MR. ROBERT S. BOWDITCH (Northrop Corporation): Does the ICO 

 contemplate the possibility of establishing an oceanwide network of 

 telemetering buoys for ASWEPS, navigation, and oceanographic 

 research? 



MR. J. J. SCHULE, JR. (HO): I do not know of any plan to estab- 

 lish a worldwide network of telemetering buoys. In the ASWEPS 

 program we have planned to take advantage of any available plat- 

 form, and buoys would mainly be used only in areas where other 

 platforms, such as ships or aircraft, were not available. 



MR. A. C. VINE (WHOI): I do not know of any plans for a world- 

 wide field of buoys, but there is a great deal of work going on 

 right now trying to visualize what the future extent of buoys might 

 be. This is strictly crystal-ball gazing. We are trying to get 

 frequency allocations in the radio spectrum for buoy- satellite 

 networks so that it might be possible to operate at least several 

 sets of several hundred buoys each. 



MR. ROBERT S. BOWDITCH (Northrop Corporation): Would the 

 hydrofoil, if available, be a useful survey vessel because of its 

 speed, recognizing the present state of hydrofoil art? 



MR. A. C. VINE (WHOI): I would think that a hydrofoil would be 

 very much like all these other vehicles, if it is competitive on 

 a general basis. If people have a particular job where a hydro- 

 foil would work extremely well, then, of course, that would be 

 a good thing for them. 



There is work going on in several laboratories in which 

 scientists are getting very interested in catamarans. We hope that 

 in a few years there will be several catamarans operated for 

 research work. Several of the people are interested in hydrofoils, 

 but their day-to-day capability is a little uncertain to the oceanog- 

 rapher . 



MR. JOHN D. NEELY (Tracerlab, Inc.): Is it possible to ob- 

 tain some of your ocean core material for analytical studies of 

 the possible presence of micrometeorites ? 



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