The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing a buoy developing program and although their buoys are usually designed to serve as markers, they have embarked on an energetic modification to accommodate environmental sensing units. Their present program of constructing offshore towers will also lend assistance to operating buoy systems.

A number of small buoys have been designed by industry to meet a variety of oceanographic requirements. Some of these are sophisticated units containing complete data recording and telemetering instrumentation, but in general, they are either tracking or location devices designed to operate free floating, with or without a drogue attached, or on the end of a mooring line. This latter type usually offer the options of DF, telemetering radio and lighting equipment.

(Inquiry also was made of Dr. Hornig of research and survey ships constructed since 1960 and completed, the number conversion of which has been completed during that period, the number presently under construction, and the number authorized but on which construction has not commenced.

(Dr. Hornig's office advised that such a breakdown would be included in testimony of Dr. Leland J. Haworth, Director of the National Science Foundation. The committee has not had an opportunity to hear Dr. Haworth.

(The Office of Science and Technology did supply, in response to a request from the committee, a breakdown of contract funding to industry by agencies participating in the oceanographic research and survey program. The table follows:)

Contract funding to industry by participating agencies 1

1

1 Smithsonian Institution has not engaged in contract funding in support of its oceanographic program. ? This includes contractors who apply fees to their contracts. It excludes nonprofit research institutions which only recently added fees to their contracts.

3 Incomplete.

4 Includes $100,000 spent on equipment subcontracts by a nonprofit prime contractor.

5 Includes $34,000 spent on equipment subcontracts by a nonprofit prime contractor. Includes $31,000 spent on equipment subcontracts by a nonprofit prime contractor.

7 Includes $22,000 of contributed funds.

Includes contract funding to nonprofit institutions.

9 Includes ship construction, but not contract funding to nonprofit institutions.

(The following information was supplied in response to the inquiry pertaining to ships of the research and survey fleets of Soviet Russia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan. The tables follow :)

8

11

12

1,600

13

2, 540

31

7

9

88

2 labs for oceanographic and acoustic research;
BT, oceanographic and acoustic research observa-
tions.

2 labs-200 square feet; plankton hauls, hydro-
graphic casts, bathymetry, bottom sampling,
coring, dredging, seismic work, acoustic surveys,
magnetic, etc.

5 labs-chemical, biological, electronics, winch
wet, workship and auxiliary winch; temperature
of sea and air, geomagnetic, wind, seismic
surveys.
No labs; trawling observatory; special shallow-
draft design for working in MacKenzie Delta
and other inshore regions.

1 lab with electrical outlets, freshwater tap and
sink; meteorological office: oceanographic casts
to 4,000m, horizontal and vertical plankton hauls
and BT observations. 195

2 Meteorological office from which radiosonde meas-
urements are made; primarily for ocean weather
station service makes twice-daily BT observa-
tions.

1 lab; hydrographic casts, bathymetry, bottom
sampling, plankton sampling, magnetic re-
cording, seismic surveys, and turbulence re-
search; deep freeze facilities.

10

8.6

500

1

1-2

7,900

43

2

14

49

Stonetown.

1943

164

580

1944

286

1,368, 5

7,900

43

Whitethroat.

4,000

26

8

127

135

Dalrymple..

1945

286

1,600

14

19.5 10,000

135

Dampier.

1945

286

1,600

14

19.5

10,000

135

Discovery (new).

1962

260

2,800

Extended

10

15,000

40