258 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM LEGISLATION 



data were used for a specific purpose. However, tliey said, if we will 

 put somebody aboard to work with them, it possibly could be made 

 available ; but the information they had was not useful at the present 

 time. We will continue to work with them, and if they have any 

 information that would be useful in the Continental Shelf surveys for 

 our charts, we will try and use it. 



Captain Bauer. How far behind your boat charts are your produced 

 charts of the Continental Shelf ? How many years ? 



Achniral Karo. Tlie normal cycle, when we complete the surveys 

 through the processing is from 1 to 2 years. However, we are auto- 

 mating our processes so that we hope that will be shortened down to 

 a few months. 



Captain Bauer. Now, with respect to the ocean surveys, where does 

 this differ from what Hydrographic Office of the Navy's Oceano- 

 granhic Offi.ce has been doing ? 



Dr. HoLLOMON. The deep ocean surveys that we are doing are sys- 

 tematic surveys with close spacing and we are using this opportunity to 

 determine as much of the geophysical pn7'ameters of the ocean and the 

 earth as we pass over it as can be made with one pass. 



Captain Baiter. Well, is not the Navy Oceanographic Offi^ce doing 

 the same thing ? 



Dr. HoLLOMOx. Through the ICO, we coordinate our areas of opera- 

 tion with the Navy, so that the area we have picked out where we are 

 now operating does not conflict with what the Navy is doing; in fact, 

 it complements the work that they are doing. 



Capatin Bauer. Have you any plan for the surveys of the oceans of 

 the world? 



Dr. HoLLOMON. Yes, sir. 



Captain Bauer. Do you have a copy available for us ? 



Dr. HoLLOMON. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Lennon. You would have a copy for the use of the committee, 

 sir? 



Dr. HoLLoiMoisr. Yes ; T liave just prepared a copy for the record. 



(The statement referred to follows :) 



Ocean Studies Program 



long-range plan 

 (a) Ocean survey sttbprofjram 



1. Requirements. — The Coast and Geodetic Survey's present program in ocean 

 surveys is the outgrowth of many years of dreaming and urging that such a pro- 

 gram be nndertaken, it is an ontgrowtli of the recommendations contained in the 

 reports of tliree generations of National Academy of Sciences Committees on 

 Oceanography (1927, 1952, and 19."9), of the generalized plan prepared by the 

 Ocean Surveys Advisory Panel of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography, 

 of the Operations Research Study of the Ocean Survey Program prepared by 

 Operations Research Inc., and finally it is the outgrowth also of 4 years of actual 

 ocean survey experience aboard the T'SCGS ship Pioneer. In its present form 

 the ocean survey program of the Coast and Geodetic Survey reflects the blend- 

 ing of these many recommendations and requirements into one workable pro- 

 gmin put together by the organization that will actually carry out the work. 



The need for systematic surveys of the sea has been extremely well documented 

 over the years : Some of these documents are : 



1899: Resolution of the Conference of the International Council for the Explora- 

 tion of the Sea. Copenhagen, translated in hearings of Subcommittee on 

 Oceanography, House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, 87th Con- 

 gress, 2d session, February 28, March 1 and 2, 1962, pages 13-18. 



