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1962 Schedule 
1 October Leave Cochin 
26 October Arrive Port Louis, Mau. 
28 October Leave Port Louis 
Arrive Fremantle 
Leave Fremantle 
Arrive Port Darwin 
Leave Port Darwin 
29 November 
2 December 
23 December 
27 December 
1963 
15 January Arrive Jakarta 
18 January Leave Jakarta 
14 February Arrive Visakhapatnam 
17 February Leave Visakhapatnam 
15 May Arrive Mombasa 
18 May Leave Mombasa 
7 June Arrive Cape Town 
NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
Program 
In company R/V HORIZON: two-ship 
seismic refraction work under Drs. 
George G. Shor, R. W. Raitt, and R. L. 
Fisher. Bottom-sampling; hydro- 
graphic casts; heat-flow measurements. 
C }4 collections under Dr. N. W. Rake- 
straw. Topography, magnetism, grav- 
ity, underway measurements; under 
Dr. R. L. Fisher. 
Repeat equatorial circulation during 
second monsoon, under Dr. Knauss. 
Geological-geochemical-geophysical 
observations under Drs. George Bien, 
John Belshé, and Charles Keeling. 
The itinerary of the R/V HORIZON during LUSIAD is scheduled as follows: 
1962 Schedule 
Leave Suez 
16 September Arrive Aden 
Leave Aden 
Arrive Cochin 
17 September 
27 September 
1 October Leave Cochin 
26 October Arrive Port Louis, Mau. 
28 October Leave Port Louis 
Arrive Fremantle 
Leave Fremantle 
Arrive Port Darwin 
29 November 
2 December 
23 December 
Besides serving as consort to the R/V 
ARGO between Cochin and Port Darwin, the 
HORIZON will carry out hydrographic studies 
between Suez and Cochin and from Port Darwin 
she will return to San Diego via the Pacific. 
Figure 1 shows the track of MONSOON and Fig- 
ure 2 that of LUSIAD. 
The third planned Scripps cruise will be 
carried out by the R/V SPENCER F. BAIRD be- 
tween February and May 1964 under W. R. 
Riedel. Emphasis will be on detailed strati- 
graphic, geochemical, and heat flow develop- 
ment in the central and eastern Indian Ocean 
where earlier cruises have indicated areas of 
especial interest. Continuous underway magne- 
tometer recordings will also be made. 
LAMONT GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY 
Three cruises of the R/V VEMA have been 
planned as part of the IIOE. 
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Program 
Conduct underway reflection profiling 
of Red and Arabian Seas. 
In company R/V ARGO; two-ship seis- 
mic refraction work under Drs. George 
G. Shor, R. W. Raitt, and R. L. Fisher. 
Bottom-sampling, hydrographic casts, 
heat-flow measurements. 
VEMA 16 Itinerary Figures 3 and 4 
27 December 59 Left Cape Town 
22 January 60 Arrive Mauritius 
25 January 60 Left Mauritius 
22 February 60 Arrive Fremantle 
26 February 60 Left Fremantle 
14 March 60 Arrive Adelaide 
16 March 60 Left Adelaide 
31 March 60 Arrive Wellington 
Under the direction of C. Fray, as Chief 
Scientist, VEMA made the passage from Cape 
Town to Mauritius and from Mauritius to Fre- 
mantle. More than 8300 miles of topographic 
track was recorded with a precision depth re- 
corder in the southern Indian Ocean. The ex- 
istence of a mid-ocean ridge and associated 
rift valley was verified by six crossings of this 
topographic feature. A towed magnetometer 
produced a continuous plot of the totai intensity 
of the earth's magnetic field along the ship's 
