Pacific Research
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Studying The Ocean Pacific Research Goes On
Jnobtrusively, research in ly fields goes on in the ific, often unknown to its nds inhabitants. ugust, the US Scripps Institu m of Oceanography’s 200-ton search vessel Stranger dropped Honolulu bound for the China n a two-year expedition. Dr.
F. Bruun, director of science tpenhagen University, was in i of the scientific party, which icludes Thai and Vietnam re ers. part of a continuing project Bishop Museum of Honolulu ;he means by which insects nimals spread throughout the s, Stranger had fine-mesh et in her rigging to trap In -if any—during the trans ; voyage. By frequently exam the nets, it is possible to de te the distance that such In ;an fly or be wind-borne from mid-November, one of the 3 two “bathyscaphs” dived to feet off Guam as part of a ea photographic survey. The i craft was manned by Pro- J. Picard, of Switzerland (son veteran balloonist and deep- Auguste Picard) and Dr. A. B. itzer. This bathyscaph is I Trieste. The other, FNRS-3, by the French Navy, made lives off Japan last year, i consists of a steel sphere diameter with walls 3i in. with small glass portholes, capable of holding two men. iphere hangs below a 50-ft ioat. Ten tons of iron pellet : is carried —held by electro ns. This is jettisoned at the f a ton per 3,000 ft and con the speed of descent. The :ing is designed for a maxi dive of 20,000 feet.
"Sounding"
NZ, the former Fiji Govern vessel Viti completed a cruise ir to the NZ Oceanographic ite in November. She had been ing, sampling, collecting e life, and checking ocean its at various levels within 150 of both coasts of the North may again be chartered next meanwhile she has returned ' seasonal work of transportproduce from Tas - to the Australian mainland, n Japan, it was reported that
the government’s 17-months-old, 1,200-ton fishery research vessel Koyo Maru, of the Shimonoseki Fisheries Institute would be in South Pacific waters in December-January.
The 17,000-mile three-months voyage commenced on October 22.
On her first cruise south of the Line, Koyo Maru is commanded by Captain Shiro Minami and has a crew of 40, and 47 university students aboard. The trainees under go the practical side of their course at sea before graduating as fish ing-vessel officers. The present cruise includes calls at Singapore, Fremantle, Sydney, Wellington, Auckland (January 12-16) and per haps some Islands ports on the run home.