NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 55 
STATEMENT OF DONALD L. McCKERNAN, CHAIRMAN, INTERAGENCY 
COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY, INSTRUMENTATION, EQUIP- 
MENT, AND FACILITIES PANEL 
Mr. McKernan. Mr. Chairman, I greatly appreciate the honor 
today of appearing before you as a member of the Interagency Com- 
mittee on Oceanography and as its Chairman on Instrumentation and 
Facilities. 
Betore proceeding with my remarks, Mr. Chairman, I want to take 
this opportunity on behalf of the Department of the Interior to echo 
the sentiments expressed by a number of members of this committee 
for the wonderful work of, and the fine opportunity it has been for 
us in the Department to work with a public spirited citizen such as 
Secretary Wakelin. 
We in the Department think it is going to be difficult for our Gov- 
ernment to replace a man of his dedication and foresight. 
We think his contribution to the Nation is going to be recognized, 
perhaps in future years, even more than it is today. It has been a 
privilege for me to work with him and observe his dedication and 
understanding of the problems of oceanography as they relate to our 
Department. 
This has been greatly appreciated by the Secretary of the Depart- 
ment of the Interior and those of us in the Department who have 
been working with him. 
Mr. Chairman, I have a statement of several pages in length but in 
order to save time you might want to put the statement in the record 
and allow me to comment briefly on my impressions of the progress 
and the problems remaining in the general field of coordinating the 
instrumentation work of the ICO. 
tam at your disposal, Mr. Chairman. 
Mr. Lennon. Mr. McKernan, we have heard your off-the-cuff dis- 
cussions before and I think perhaps it would be as effective and as in- 
formative if you did just that with the understanding you can go 
through your prepared statement and use any part of it you would 
like. However, you can put the full statement in at the conclusion 
of your remarks. 
Mr. McKernan. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
Before starting, I would like to refer the committee to page 4 of 
my statement. The present membership of the committee is indi- 
cated there. 
I am very fortunate, Mr. Chairman, in having a number of these 
people, or their alternates, present with me today so that, if the com- 
mittee wishes to ask more specific questions requiring intimate techni- 
cal knowledge of the field of instrumentation, I am sure there are 
people in the room who can do a creditable job in answering such 
questions. 
Mr. Chairman, as I see the problems of instrumentation, they are 
something like this: All of us in the Interagency Committee on Ocean- 
ography are deeply aware of the costs of putting ships to sea. These 
are expensive platforms and they are becoming most costly every year. 
