DR. W. S. RICHARDSON (WHOI): Omega's greater range is due to 

 the lower frequencies. I do not have any idea when it will be gener- 

 ally available . 



MR. THEODORE J. SMITH (Packard Bell Computer): What sam- 

 pling rates are typically desirable in oceanographic data gathering? 



DR. W. S. RICHARDSON (WHOI): That is a ve^y difficult question. 

 If you are talking about acoustics, of course, we get up into the 

 megacycle range. On the other hand, we normally like to work 

 somewhere near the time constant of perhaps a second for things 

 like temperature, and we might be satisfied with time constants 

 of several minutes for current measurements. It depends very 

 strongly on the particular instrumentation problem and the part- 

 icular scientific problem to which the data apply. 



MR. BENJAMIN H. FONOROW (Philco Corporation): How will 

 Industry or the general public be able to get the output data fronn 

 the National Oceanographic Data Center? Will this data be in a 

 form useful to the user of the data? 



CHAIRMAN: They can buy it at the cost of machine time, the 

 same way that the rest of us do, and it probably can be put in a 

 useful form -- any convenient form -- that they wish. Further 

 information on this, I think, can be supplied by NODC, Washington 

 25, D. C. 



MR. RUSSELL E. HUKEE (Imperial Electronics, Inc): Is there a 

 requirement for an inexpensive disposable bathythermograph? 



MR. B. K. COUPER (BUSHIPS): The increase in ship speed 

 would make a disposable bathythermograph quite useful. However, 

 the cost, as far as we have been able to find out from casual dis- 

 cussions with quite a number of people, has not been anywhere 

 down to what we are getting at present by the bathythermograph. 



We have had some wonderful ideas, but, if I may mention the 

 horrible word of reliability again, we have had difficulty. The 

 difficulty with the present bathythermograph is that, in general, 

 we must limit the speed to reach the depths we want. An expend- 

 able one would be very handy, but again it is a matter of cost. 



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