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THE NAVY OCEAN ENGINEERING PROGRAM 



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The Shipboard Survey System permits recording of measured data both on-station 

 and underway in a form that is easily adapted to modem high-speed computer 

 processing. 



gravity, surface temperature, and bottom and sub-bottom profiles are re- 

 corded in a form easily adapted to modern high-speed data processing. Data 

 are gathered by the on-station instrument package, referred to as a fish, 

 which is capable of operating to depths of 6100 meters. As the fish is low- 

 ered into the water at a rate of up to two meters per second, a profile of the 

 characteristics of the ocean is made by the sensors in the fish. A remote 

 readout device for displaying essential data, also part of the system, is 

 mounted on the bridge of the ship. A total of eleven such vessels, equipped 

 with the shipboard survey system, are planned. 



AIR-SEA INTERFACE 



Scientists have inferred striking analogies between physical phenomena 

 in the ocean depths and those in the earth's atmosphere; both are fluid 

 masses acted upon by pressures, currents, insolation, rotation of the earth, 

 and other internal and external forces. The boundary layer between these 



