The Navy, because the ocean Is its daily operating 

 environment, is spending over half the FY 68 Federal 

 oceanographic budget of 462 million dollars. It not only 

 makes good economic sense, but seems essential, that the 

 oceanographic information and technology for which the 

 Navy spends your money should do double duty by being 

 made available to all other agencies and industries. 



In any case there is no real separation anymore 

 between national defense and national, and even inter- 

 national, welfare. The United States cannot be indefi- 

 nitely safe in a hungry world anymore than we can be 

 safe without a credible strategic deterrence. Our 

 efforts in space should not detract us from devoting 

 increased efforts and resources to the seas. Not only 

 our welfare but our very existence may depend upon it. 



The Renaissance was an age of geographical explora- 

 tion and an age of science. It was also an age of hope 

 in Europe after centuries of instability and violence. 



We are living in a new age of exploration--of both 

 outer space and undersea.s--which is dependent upon new 

 scientific discoveries, sophisticated technology and 

 advanced engineering. ¥e also live in a divided world-- 

 politically, militarily and economically--whlch offers 

 promise of great hope to the well-off but fears of hunger 

 and despair to the poorer. 



The exploration and exploitation of the oceans are 

 vital to our military security, and that of our allies, 

 until a more stable world framework evolves. Perhaps 

 more Important in the long-range, is that oceanography 

 in the broad sense offers avenues of satisfying certain 

 basic human needs essential to stability in future 

 decades. It offers both avenues of world-wide coopera- 

 tion and a challenge to American leadership, governmental 

 and private, to devote our scientific, technological and 

 management skills in furthering joint efforts. 



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