Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1931, Page 38

DIRECTOR REPORTS | ON OGEAN SURVEYS Coast and Geodetic Service Progresses in Decade, Patton Declares. ’ The 100th annual report of the Coast ! #nd Geodetic Survey today was placed in the hands of Secretary of Commerce | ont Between the covers of the thick vol- | ume Director R. S. Patton reviews the growth of the seryice from the time it was started, in 1807, during the ad- ministration’ of President Thomas Jet- | ferson, and the delays whereby fleld | work was not started until 1916, -nd; stresses the foundation program insti- | tuted by Ferdinand Hassler, the first | director. Tells of Vicissitudes, “During the past_century,” Director Patton informed _Secretary Lamont, “the Coast and Geodetic Survey has had its vicissitudes. Adequate per- | formance of the main task wssigneu to it has been rendered difficult by the fact that over the greater part of the gertod this Nation as a whole has not een ship-minded. With the passing of the clipper ship era and the subsequent concentration of the Nation's energies on the developmeni of our great in- terior domain, the national vision of the American flag upon the high seas, of | ‘American commerce carried in American bottoms, became obscured to an extent from which recovery is not yet com- plete. “This popular sttitude made the bu- reau’s task an uphill struggle. in which progress was usually less than the situ- ation required, Our territorial waters contain far teo many rocks snd shoals named for unfortunste vessels which were wrecked on them because this bureau has not gone there earlier with the surveys which would have located them in a far more orderly and eco- nomical manner. Fortunately, the past decade has witnessed a marked im- provement in this respect, and the sit- vation today is better than at any time curing the latter half of the century.” Sea Soundings Easier Now. The director said application of re- cent innovations in methods, based on the utilization of the velocity of sound in sea water, permits a surveying ves- sel while mwehng at full speed to gather a continuous profile of the bot- tom. Visibility of land or weather conditions are non-essential. Work can be earried on during a far greater por- | tion of the time than is possible with the jmmemorial method of measuring | the l.lw\lm o( llne paid out in lowerlng e botLom. elopmenc ol the airplane, the | la, 125 caused a heavy de- the bureau for air maps. They are as essential to the pilot as | the nautical chart is to the mariner, he explained. | Strip maps, limited to_the terrain along established airways, Director Pat- | ton reported, were found unsatisfactory | with most of the flying off the com- mercial lanes. 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