122 MARINE SCIENCE 
STATEMENT OF DR. ALLYN C. VINE, CHAIRMAN, OCEANOGRAPHY 
COMMITTEE PANEL ON NEW DEVICES FOR EXPLORING THE 
OCEAN, WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, WOODS 
HOLE, MASS. 
Dr. Vine. Thank you, Senator. 
My name is Allyn Vine and I am a physical oceanographer at the 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. It is a pleasure to be here 
today to discuss some of the trends and needs in the field of ocean- 
ographic instruments, ships, and devices. I hope you will feel free 
to ask any questions anytime. 
It does not seem necessary to restate what is in chapter 7 of the 
oceanographic committee’s report entitled “Engineering Needs for 
Ocean Exploration,” because 8S. 901 shows that your committee has 
studied chapter 7 carefully. Perhaps this presentation will be most 
useful by emphasizing the ideas behind those recommendations, the 
progress in those directions and to mention subjects on which our 
panel was shortsighted or had misjudged trends. 
My major field of interest is physical oceanography. 
I was born in Garrettsille, Ohio, June 1, 1914. Degrees: A.B., 
Hiram College, 1936; M.S., Lehigh University, 1938. 
Professional career: Research associate WHOI 1940-1950; physi- 
cal oceanographer, 1950—; trustee, Ocean Resources Institute 1950-; 
trustee, International Oceanographic Foundation 1960—. 
Member: American Physical Society, AAS, American Geophysical 
Union, Acoustical Society, Association for Applied Solar Energy. 
Scientific contributions: Seismology at sea, current measurements, 
underwater photography, oceanographic instrumentation, under- 
water acoustics, design of research ships. 
I would like to emphasize how very correct Professor Ewing was 
yesterday in saying that oceanographic instruments must be closely 
tied to the individual scientific problem and to the individual work 
in science. This does not mean that the scientist is always right, or 
that they don’t need much help from the outside to keep from getting 
ingrown, but it does mean that the bulk of the instruments should 
be controlled by the scientific users. 
The CuHatrman. You agree with his point yesterday that these are 
things that are developed by the individual himself. Usually they 
are not things on a production line. 
Dr. Vine. That is right. 
The Cuarrman. They may be elaborate or they may be simple. 
Let’s say it is a custom-built job. 
Dr. Vine. A custom job. 
In this connection, I would also like to mention where industry can 
be and has been so valuable here, and that is in the business of taking 
these custom jobs and moving them into reasonable production so that 
other scientists for survey and research work can have the advantage 
of these good instruments with only a reasonable leadtime. 
The Cuatrman. I know of cases where they have taken the instru- 
ments when they have been a semicustom job, industry has picked 
them up and made a custom job out of it themselves. 
_ Dr. Ving. One interesting note is that several years ago in discuss- 
ing this problem with some Soviet oceangraphers we agreed com- 
