Figure 3 
Elements of Fundamental Technology 
(a) Survey equipment and instrumentation 
(5-1-A) 
(b) Power sources (5-1-B) 
(c) External machinery systems and equip- 
ment (5-1-C) 
(d) Materials (5-I-D) 
(e) Navigation and communications (5-1-E) 
(f) Tools: diver and vehicle (5-I-F) 
(g) Mooring systems, buoys, and surface 
support platforms (5-I-G) 
(h) Biomedicine and diving 
(5-1-H) 
(i) Environmental considerations (5-1-1!) 
(j) Data handling (5-1-J) 
(k) Life support (5-I-K) 
(I) Coastal engineering (5-IV-B) 
(m) Extraction techniques (6-V1) 
(n) Services: certification, inspection, and 
recovery (5-I11-C) 
(0) Coastal ecology (control and modifica- 
tion) (5-IV-A and 5-V) 
equipment 
B. National Test Facilities 
The marine environment is not well known, 
and with today’s technology it is a hostile and 
difficult operating area. History has borne out that 
adequate testing is required to utilize a foreign 
environment effectively. Thus, in developing the 
capability to occupy and manage the offshore 
areas and explore and utilize the deep oceans, it 
will become evident that test facilities will be a 
national resource as important as any other single 
factor. 
There are two prime elements of the national 
test facility needs—(1) those to test systems, 
equipment, components, and fundamental de- 
velopments and (2) those to test man as a diver in 
the sea. (See Chapter 5, Section II for details.) 
C. National Projects 
A series of national facilities, programs, and 
projects, generically called National Projects, is 
recommended for consideration during the 10-year 
program to support technological progress in the 
oceans. These projects, many having strong inter- 
relationships, are listed in Figure 4. (See Chapter 7 
for details.) 
Figure 4 
National Projects 
National Undersea Facilities 
1. Fixed continental shelf laboratory 
. Portable continental shelf laboratories 
. Mobile undersea support laboratory 
. Seamount station 
. Deep ocean stations 
— Continental slope 
— Midocean ridge 
— Abyssal deep 
National Marine Programs 
6. Pilot buoy network 
7. Great Lakes restoration program 
8. Resource assay equipment development 
program 
9. Coastal engineering and ecological 
studies program 
10. Fisheries and aquaculture program 
National Marine Projects 
11. Experimental continental shelf sub- 
merged nuclear plant 
12. Large stable ocean platform 
13. Long-endurance exploration sub- 
mersibles with 20,000-foot capability 
14. Prototype regional pollution collection, 
treatment, and processing system 
15. Prototype harbor development project 
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