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Ship Sails From Port To Probe Ocean’s Secrets
Following a familiarization cruise up
the Houston Ship Channel from Galveston
last month, the Oceanographic Research
Vessel ALAMINOS docked at the
Port of Houston Turning Basin for two
and one-half days of public tours and
inspeetion before returning to her duties
as Texas A. & M. University’s major
oeean-going ship for scientific research
into the secrets of the deep.
The ALAMINOS, 180-foot sister-ship
of the ill-fated PUEBLO seized by North
Korea in 1968, ’had as guests on the familiarizafion
trip U.S. Congressmen Bob
Casey of Houston and Olin E. Teague of
College Station, as well as State Representalivc
t{av Lemmon. chairman of the
Texas Legislature’s newly-formed Interim
Study Committee on Oceanography,
and Texas A. & M.’s president,
Earl Rudder.
Other distinguished guesls included
Clyde H. Wells. president of A. &. M.’s
Board of Directors; Robert Mderdice,
exceutixe director of the Interim Study
Committee on Oceanography; Dr.
Sammy Ray, director of the Marine
Laboratory at Galveston; Dr. James
The Oceanographk Research Vessel ALAMINOS
is shown as she docked at the Port of Houston for
a weekend-long open house for tours and inspection
by the general public following her first
research cruise in the Gulf of Mexico for 1970.
Observing procedures used by Texas A&M oceanography scientists in examining sea floor cores are,
from left, State Representative Ray Lemmon of Houston, chairman of the Texas Legislature’s Interim
Study Committee on Oceanography; Earl Rudder, president of A&M University; Frank Chmelik, assistant
chief scientist aboard the R/V AI.AMINOS; and U.S. Congressmen O~in Teague of College Station
and Bob Casey of Houston.
Sharp, president of Gulf [ niversities Research
Corporation; Dean John C. Calhoun,
Jr. of A. & M.’s College of Geoscience;
Dr. Richard A. Oeyer, head of
A. & M.’s Dcpamnent of Oceanography;
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Captain Henry Rowe, head of Galveston
Communil~ College’s Marine Science
l)epartment; and I)r. Arnold H. Ihmma.
chief scientist for the first ocean research
Irlp in 1970. made by the 4LA-
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