INTRODUCTION 



Under contract Nonr-04.501, a survey of the Tongue of 

 the Ocean in the Bahs-^rs between Fresh Creek, i^ndros and the 

 western end of New Provi'5ence was undertaken. 



During the latter p^rt of June, July and the ear].y 

 part of August 1950, the auxiliary ketch Mother Goose II was 

 engaged upon this work. Sixteen dredge and twenty-seven 

 hydrographic stations were occupied in depths to 1350 meters, 

 Sixty-two plankton samples in depths to 154-0 meters were 

 obtained. Photographs of the bottom (figs. 9-25) were ob- 

 tained in depths to 2?00 meters and cores were taken in 

 depths to 203-4 meters. In addition to the forty-one 

 soundings obtained in the course of the photography and 

 coring operations, twenty-seven soundings were made to 

 depths of 1070 meters with only the lead on the wire. 



METHODS and EivUIPMENT 



A 12,000 foot length of 1/8" diameter aircraft cable 

 was carried on a drum belt driven from th.e main engine. 



The metering wheel had been cut to a circumference 

 of 1/4 fathom by simply turning it up in a lathe until a 

 marked piece of vrire just fit around a groove when held 

 by hand. The final calibration was made hy comparing the 

 meter vrheel values, corrected for wire an^le but not for 



