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Atlantic conducting bathymetric survey opera- 

 tions. LITTLEHALES will conduct limited 

 acoustic and oceanographic surveys in the Tongue 

 of the Ocean. Contract vessels ARCTIC SEAL and 

 ATLANTIC SEA, will operate in the North 

 Atlantic and Mediterranean in support of the 

 Marine Geophysical Sin-\ey Program, and 

 TOWHEE will conduct bathymetric surveys in 

 the North Atlantic. Navy airborne magnetic 

 surveys will continue with primary effort directed 

 toward SEAMAP sinxeys. The aerial ice recon- 

 naissance program in the Arctic will continue as 

 in past years. 



Pacific Ocean 



REHOBOTH and KANE will operate in the 

 North Pacific conducting oceanographic and 

 bathymetric surveys in support of the ASW- 

 USW Oceanographic Survey Program. KANE, 

 scheduled for deli\'ery in December 1966, will 

 operate in the North Pacific conducting ocean- 

 ographic and bathymetric programs. BERTHA 

 ANN and SEA SCOPE, Marine Geophysical 

 Survey contract \essels, will conduct ocean- 

 ographic operations in the Pacific Ocean, and the 

 Navy will contract for two additional vessels to 

 augment these sinveys during this fiscal year. 



Continental Shelf 



Recent operations on shelf areas adjacent to 

 Key West, Newport (Rhode Island), San Diego, 

 and the Hood Canal (Puget Soiuid), have con- 

 tributed to the general pool of shelf information. 

 Surveys now underway will be in areas adjacent 

 to Pascagoula (Mississippi), Key West, and Port 

 Arguello (California). FY 1967 plans call for con- 

 tinuing :he Port Arguello survey. 



DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 



Environmental Science Services Administration 



Coast and Geodetic Survey 



FY 1965-$ 8,827,000 

 FY 1966-110,598,000 

 FY 1967-$1 1,370,000 



Coastal nautical charting siu'veys. the current 

 smveys, and the tidal program are all part of the 

 traditional mission-oriented surveys of the 

 Environmental Science Services Administration 

 (ESSA). 



ESSA's new ships, OCEANOGRAPHER and 

 DISCOVERER will be delivered in FY 1967. 

 Although the laying up of PIONEER removes 

 from service the only ship that has devoted full 

 time to Project SEAMAP, the assignment of 

 OCEANOGRAPHER and DISCOVERER to SEA- 

 M.AlP will constitute a major step in the prosecu- 

 tion of this program. Furthermore, with the avail- 

 ability of the Navy Navigation Satellite System, 

 the operation of SEAMAP survey ships at sea will 

 no longer be limited to areas of Loran-C coverage. 



Ship Operations 



Atlantic Ocean 



WHITING, HYDROGRAPHER, and MT. 

 MITCHELL will make hydrographic and oceano- 

 graphic sin^eys on the continental shelf. In the 

 same area EXPLORER, PEIRCE, OCEANO- 

 GRAPHER, and DISCOVERER will operate, at 

 least in part, on the continental shelf. They will 

 perform geomagnetic as well as hydrographic and 

 oceanographic surveys. DISCOVERER will oper- 

 ate on a trans-Atlantic underway section for 

 Project SEAMAP. MARMER will conduct current 

 surveys on the continental shelf. It will operate 

 in Block Island and Long Island Sounds, and then 

 progress southward. 



HILGARD, WAINWRIGHT, RUDE, and 

 HECK will carry out wire drag operations in the 

 Florida Keys and Chesapeake Bay. 



Pacific Ocean 



OCEANOGRAPHER, after it completes its 

 SEAMAP operations in the Atlantic, will be trans- 

 ferred to the central Pacific. SURVEYOR will 

 operate in the North Pacific to complete the sur- 

 veys of the area between the Aleutians and the 

 Hawaiian Islands (SEAMAP). 



PATHFINDER will continue its nautical chart 

 surveys in the Hawaiian Islands and in Cook Inlet, 

 Alaska. Eight other ships will also condtict nautical 

 chardng operations off the coast of Alaska. They 

 are: BOWIE, HODGSON, LESTER JONES, 

 PATTON, McARTHUR, DAVIDSON, FAIR- 

 WEATHER, and RAINER. 



