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On Cruise C a party of physiologists will be embarked, and emphasis 

 will be placed on obtaining live Latimeria for physiological study. 



U. S. COAST GUARD 



During May I96I, the U. S. Coast Guard Icebreaker EAST WIND, returning 

 from a trip to the Antarctic with oceanographic observers from the 

 Hydrographic Office aboard, occupied a line of hydrographic stations 

 from Fremantle west to 78°E, and then north to h°N, Her track is shown 

 in Figure 15 . 



U. S, NAVY 



Survey vessels of the U. S. Navy have occupied hydrographic stations 

 in the Persian Gulf and Andaman Sea, as shown in Figure 15 . 



The research vessels CHAIN of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 

 ARGO of Scripps Isntitution of Oceanography, and CONRAD of Lamont 

 Geological Observatory are owned by the U. S. Navy, and their operations 

 are supported by the Office of Naval Research. The Office of Naval 

 Research also supports part of the operations of the VEMA and HORIZON. 

 The Navy is also providing one R5D aircraft for use in the Woods Ho3.e 

 Oceanographic Institution meteorological program and is supplying a 

 NOMAD weather station. Support has been given to the National 

 Oceanographic Data Center for research on data processing for the NOMAD 

 buoy observations. 



U. S. WEATHER BUREAU 



Four planes of the Weather Bureau Research Flight, normally based 

 in Miami, Florida, in hurricane observation, will operate in India from 

 May to July I963 and again in January and February I96U. The Weather 

 Bureau is also assigning two professional meteorologists to the 

 International Meteorological Center at Bombay. Radiosonde equipment 

 is being loaned by the Weather Bureau for installation on the ANTON 

 BRUUN and ATLAMTIS II. 



BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES 



The research program of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the 

 Indian Ocean has the following objectives: 



1. To study the distribution and abundance of adult tunas 

 in relation to the circulation during the two monsoon 

 seasons . 



2. To study the relation of the apex predators (tunas, 

 marllns, sharks, etc.) to the food-chain, standing 

 crops and productivity. 



