FOREWORD 



The installation of the Texas Towers off 

 the east coast of the United States provides new 

 facilities for measuring oceanographic parameters 

 heretofore difficult to perform aboard a pitching 

 ship. The Ifydrographic Office recognizes the 

 potentialities of these stable platforms and plans 

 to exploit them to the maximum extent by coordi- 

 nating the efforts of all government agencies to 

 obtain data and knowledge from the oceans. This 

 publication is a preliminary evaluation of the 

 tower as an observational platform and the adapt- 

 ability of various instruments. 



Additional reports will be published as 

 this program develops. 



H. C. Daniel 



Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy 

 Bydrographer 



