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which people do not often think about, is the use of fleet ships. For 
10 to 15 years we have had an active program having combatant 
and auxiliary ships take soundings and bathythermographs, plus 
current data, weather reports, all the related information that they 
can get, and send it in to the Navy. 
Last year, for example, over 8,000 voluntary reports came in from 
this sort of ship of opportunity. These were divided among Navy, 
Coast Guard, MSTS, merchant marine, fishermen, people who are all 
aware of the benefits that they can get by providing this information 
into the common pool. 
In addition to that, we have had specific projects such as in the 
mine force in the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, called Project Flood. 
Under Project Flood, Navy puts on board mine craft packages of 
instrumentation to take soundings, temperature, salinity, current, and 
bottom samples. We provide a man ahead of time to train the ship’s 
crew to use these, and the data is sent back. 
Right now we have about 10 ships working on it; they are provid- 
ing a tremendous amount of information in the holiday areas in the 
Mediterranean. 
The Navy has also very recently approached the merchant marine 
through the American Merchant Marine Institute, to get participa- 
tion in a bathythermograph program by tankers and cargo ships. 
With the assistance of the Merchant Marine Institute we ap- 
proached 40 of their member companies, asking them to use Navy- 
supplied instrumentation and provide us the data. So far we have— 
well, it was only started very recently, but we have heard from three 
companies which have responded favorably. Only one has said no. 
If we can get this program going we will begin to tap the merchant 
marine. 
Mr. Bauer. Have you explored any exchange of data agreements 
with the geophysical industry ? 
Captain TREADWELL. With the commercial companies ? 
Mr. Baur. Yes. 
Captain TrEapweELu. Yes, sir. The Navy has had for about almost 
3 years now a working agreement which was negotiated through the 
Society of Exploration Geophysicists. This agreement is with the 
various 01] companies and exploration companies who produce princi- 
pally gravity, magnetics, and subbottom geophysical work. We re- 
ceived—the figure slips my mind—but a tremendous amount of our 
stock of geophysical data has come in through these commercial 
sources. 
As one particular case in point, we recently had a request by the 
Pacific Missile Range for some gravity data, and we were able to fill 
this from commercial sources, without tieing up Navy capability to 
get it. 
Mr. Bauer. Does the Coast and Geodetic Survey know of this 
program ? 
Captain TreapweLu. Yes, sir; they are aware of it, and as Com- 
mander Nygren mentioned the other day, they are instituting a simi- 
lar program. 
Mr. Bauer. That is all I have, Mr. Chairman. 
Mr. Lennon. Mr. Drewry ? 
