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NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 abel 
rules of oceanography is that you should photogranh'a new piece of apparatus be- 
fore you lower it in the ocean, because that is the last you may see of it. Data 
must be gathered at all hours of the day anc night, and sometimes the process 
takes most of a day. Some samples must be analyzed. immediately and others proper- 
ly stored for later analysis ashore. 
But data alone is not science, It is not enough to do something that hasn't 
been done before == to sail to an unknown spot on the ocean just because no one 
else has got there yet. The critical need in oceanography, as in all branches 
of science, is for keen analytical minds to make useful summaries of data and 
draw meaningful inferences. 
Without people of this sort, our national oceanographic effort can become 
constipated with data. So far, however, provisions for education of oceanograph- 
ers are the smallest part of our budgetary thinking. It is to be hoped that this 
will not continue to be so. : 
Joel W. Hedgpeth 
