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The Panel plans to use indicating rather than recording devices 
until automatic position indicating equipment is available. It is 
hoped that these will come with the advent of the data relaying satel- 
lites which may be operational by 1970. At that time the satellites 
will interrogate the shipboard recorders and relay the ship’s position 
and observed data back to the data center. The mstrument suit for 
ships-of-opportunity was described on pages 405 and 406 of the “Pro- 
ceedings of the Government-Industry Oceanographic Instrumenta- 
tion Symposium.” Our progress to date in obtaining this instrumen- 
tation has been as follows: 
Item 3. Electronic bathythermograph with associated winch-wire 
boom-recorder-readout assembly: It has been found that the industry 
funded and developed expendable bathythermograph mentioned on 
pages 10 and 11 of my prepared statement may do the job as well and 
require far less shipboard equipment and skill. 
Item 4. An automatic recording sea-surface temperature probe: A 
standard sea-surface temperature indicator is being developed through 
the cooperative efforts of the Naval Oceanographic Office, Coast 
Guard, Weather Bureau, and Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Data 
from this device will be entered into the quartermaster’s logbook 
along with the ship’s position and pertinent meteorological data. 
Operational evaluations are underway now and more are contemplated 
in the next fiscal year. 
Item 5. Meteorological instruments: The Weather Bureau already 
has in use on ships-of-oppertunity the following instruments: 
(a) Wind direction and velocity indicators (still in limited use). 
(6) Barographs or barometers. 
(c) Air temperature indicators. 
(dz) Various instruments for measuring the moisture content of the 
air. 
The other four devices listed in the proceedings; that is (1) the 
sounding set, (2) the precision depth or graphic recorder, (6) the 
towed magnetometer, and (7) the shipboard wave height measuring 
or recording device are not yet in stages applicable to ships-of-cppor- 
tunity. 
Work on these four devices is being held in abeyance until other 
work is completed. The Naval Oceanographic Office is developing 
instrument suits for oceanographic survey vessels and for the ship- 
board oceanographic synoptic observational networks. It is hoped 
that the instruments developed for these other uses may lead to devices 
applicable to ships-of-opportunity. Progress depends on individual 
agency priority and on the availability of funds. 
Mr. Lennon. Thank you very much, Mr. McKernan, for your 
presentation. 
Mr. McKernan. Thank you. 
(Ma. McKernan’s prepared statement follows :) 
STATEMENT OF Donatp L. McKERNAN, CHAIRMAN, INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON 
OCEANOGRAPHY, INSTRUMENTATION, EQUIPMENT, AND- FACILITIES PANEL 
Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I am very happy to have the 
opportunity to describe the progress the Instrumentation, Hquipment, and Facili- 
ties Panel has made since our meeting 2 years ago. The principal objectives of 
this Panel are (1) To give impetus to the development of instruments and instru- 
ment ssytems for oceanographic research and surveys, (2) to encourage coopera- 
