eight Ocean Station vessels will be undertaken and is ex- 
pected to be completed by July of 1964, 
The EVERGREEN (CG) will continue International Ice 
Patrol surveys in the northwest North Atlantic. Special 
oceanographic surveys will be undertaken in Baffin Bay and 
the Laborador Sea at the request of the International Com- 
mission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (ICNAF). These 
will involve standard oceanographic sections plus plankton 
and productivity studies. Ocean Station Bravo (56°30'N, 
51°OO'W) will be specially equipped for surface water 
physical measurements and for collecting plankton during 
these ICNAF surveys. 
Additional Coast Guard oceanographic survey operations 
may be carried out from an icebreaker in the East Greenland 
Sea, and a Coast Guard Cutterwill take part in EQUALANT II 
Of SECITA, 
After taking part in EQUALANT I of ICITA in February- 
April, the EXPLORER (C&GS)will carry out hydrographic surveys 
around Puerto Rico. In July she commences Raydist-controlled 
combined hydrographic, magnetic, and other oceanographic 
surveys Off Cape Hatteras. Included will be current measure- 
ments, standard oceanographic stations, and bottom photog- 
raphy. The ship will also carry out bottom biological 
observations in cooperation with the Duke University Marine 
Laboratory and bottom sediment sampling in cooperation with 
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