102 THE NAVY OCEAN SCIENCE PROGRAM 



MAJOR COOPERATIVE EXPERIMENTS 



The progress in the study of ocean circulation and internal 

 waves, as well as the requirements for a general attack on 

 the problems of air-sea interaction, have long made obvious 

 the need for complex and extensive observational networks at 

 sea. These, in turn, require advanced engineering design and 

 development on a scale not previously pursued in scientific 

 programs in physical oceanography. Preparations have been 

 underway over the past few years for mounting major experi- 

 mental networks in both the North Atlantic and the North 

 Pacific. The large telemetering buoys previously discussed 

 were developed in preparation for work on these and even larger 

 scales of investigation. These plans require scientific resources 

 beyond a single institution to supply, and they also require a 

 major effort in formulation and execution. Suitable combinations 

 of research groups are now working on program studies, and 

 it is anticipated that the next few years will see major efforts 

 in the Navy Ocean Science Program. It seems clear that this 

 effort can be useful to other programs of the Federal Government 

 in furthering its national and international objectives. Co- 

 operative planning with other federal agencies to this end has 

 already begun. 



OCEAN EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION 



Today we can predict man's access to the ocean depths as 

 freely as our forebears predicted access to the surface areas 

 of the world. We, as they, must bend our efforts to make this 

 access as safe and economic as possible. To this end, future 

 efforts must continue to expand our knowledge of basic materials, 

 structures, propulsion, and communications to provide a con- 

 tinuing evolution of techniques. 



Since the missions and tasks of ocean exploration and ex- 

 ploitation will be many and varied, no single system or tech- 

 nique will suffice. Manned systems, represented by saturation 

 diving and small submersibles, are expected to be the most 



