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Department of Defense 
U. S. Navy. Oceanographic surveys are 
carried out for the Department of Defense by 
the Naval Oceanographic Office. The major 
portion of its effort is directed toward military 
surveys, but for FY 1964 considerably more ef- 
fort will be devoted to the Ocean Survey effort. 
The TANNER and REQUISITE will be engaged 
part-time in coastal hydrographic surveys inthe 
Atlantic, with major emphasis inthe generalareas 
of the Windward Passage and the North Atlantic. 
A portion of the time of each of these vessels 
will be spent on ocean surveys within the frame- 
work of the term as defined by the Ocean Sur- 
veys Advisory Panel of the ICO. The effective- 
ness of these two ships will be increased by 
their working as a team throughout most of the 
field season. Similarly, the MAURY and SER- 
RANO will be involved in comparable surveys 
in the Pacific. The two major oceanographic 
survey ships of the Naval Oceanographic Office, 
the SAN PABLO and the REHOBOTH, will be 
carrying out military project surveys in the 
Atlantic and the Pacific respectively. It is pos- 
sible that these two ships will also be able to 
contribute to the Ocean Survey Program during 
the working season, but this will be determined 
by the rate at which the required military sur- 
veys progress. The remaining three ships, the 
PREVAIL, SHELDRAKE, and LITTLEHALES, 
will be engaged in military project survey in the 
Atlantic. 
Survey funds planned for the Navy in FY 
1964 total just over $11 million as follows: 
TABLE 6 
Costs of Operation and Technical Manning 
of the Survey Ships 
(Thousands) 
TANNER $ 1,914 
MAURY 1,914 
SAN PABLO 1,260 
REHOBOTH 1,260 
SERRANO 758 
PREVAIL 712 
REQUISITE 672 
SHE LDRAKE 672 
LITTLEHALES 320 
New Vessel (AGS 214) 840 
Total $10,322 
Support for analysis, interpretation, 
and related activies for ocean 
surveys. 873 
Total for surveys $11,195 
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Data from the above activities will be made 
available to the scientific community through 
the National Oceanographic Data Center. It is 
not possible at this time to ascertain exactly 
the amount of time that these ships will be en- 
gaged in Ocean Survey work as compared with 
coastal hydrography and other missions. It is 
estimated, however, that the TANNER, MAURY, 
REQUISITE, and SERRANO will devote 20 per 
cent of their time to the Ocean Survey Program, 
and the REHOBOTH 10 per cent. For the pur- 
poses of this report, the ocean survey funding 
for the Oceanographic Office is $.873 million 
for data processing and other costs related to 
this program and $1.178 million for ship time 
for a total of $2.051 million out of a total survey 
item of $11.195 million. 
Prior high priority commitments prevent 
the Oceanographic Office from participating 
directly in the International Cooperative Inves- 
tigations of the Tropical Atlantic, but as in FY 
1963 this agency will contribute to this effort 
through special compilation and printing activi- 
ties for which funds are not earmarked specifi- 
cally. 
The Office of Naval Research will support 
some of the activities of the private oceano- 
graphic institutions taking part in the Interna- 
tional Cooperative Investigations of the Tropical 
Atlantic. An estimated $200 thousand will be 
spent on this research effort by the private in- 
stitutions in FY 1964. 
Department of Interior 
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. The 
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries plans an in- 
crease of $105 thousand over the $20 thousand 
budgeted in FY 1963 for its part in the Ocean 
Survey Program. These funds will cover the 
cost of placing biologists and special equipment 
items aboard the ships of other agencies engaged 
in such surveys. Although BCF does not have 
ships to carry out Ocean Surveys of its own, the 
degree of cooperation with the Oceanographic 
Office, the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the 
Coast Guard has been high, and biologists are 
routinely placed aboard the ships of these 
agencies. 
Geological Survey. The Geological Survey 
budgeted no funds in FY 1963 under the heading 
of surveys. For FY 1964, this agency has in- 
cluded $15 thousand under this category. By 
FY 1964 it is expected that the Ocean Survey 
Program will have progressed sufficiently that 
additional equipment will be needed for special 
