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Diamond M Requests

Title XI For 2 Jackups

And 1 Semisubmersible

The Maritime Administration has received a Title XI request filed by Diamond M Drilling Com- pany, Houston, Texas, to build two "jackups," costing $37.1 million for both rigs. Levingston Ship- building Company, Orange, Texas, will construct the jackups.

Diamond M has also applied for construction loan and mortgage in- insurance for one semisubmersible drilling rig—to cost about $30.3 million—to be built by Alabama

Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., Mo- bile, Ala.

Prof. Ewing Receives

Offshore Conference

Achievement Award

William Maurice Ewing, Cecil

H. Green Professor of Geophysics and head of the Earth Planetary

Sciences Division at the Marine Bi- omedical Institute, University of

Texas Medical School in Galveston, was the recipient of the 1974 Off- shore Technology Conference Dis- tinguished Achievement Award

For Individuals. Professor Ewing was honored during the Awards

Luncheon at the Sixth Annual Off- shore Conference, May 6-8, 1974, at the Astrohall in Houston, Texas.

Professor Ewing was cited for his pioneering work in the acquisi- tion and interpretation of ocean- ographic data that has resulted in much of the knowledge and tech- nology used today in offshore pros- pecting. The citation accompany- ing his award reads "William Mau- rice Ewing, scientist, inventor, teacher, experimenter, organizer of research projects, author of scien- tific publications, and interpreter of the history and structure of the earth. For offshore technology ac- complishments in geology and geo- physics, for important scientific publications, and in recognition of the , many scientists he has taught and trained."

Prior to his present position with the University of Texas at Galves- ton, Professor Ewing served as professor of geology at Columbia

University. While at Columbia, he also founded and directed the La- mont-Doherty Geological Observa- tory, a leading institution in the geophysical study of the oceans.

Professor Ewing's earliest experi- ments with seismic refraction es- tablished the basic structure and lithology of the continental shelves and provided a stimulus for sub- sequent successful efforts to ex- plore for oil offshore. During his years at Columbia, Professor Ew- ing played a leading role in the development of accurate re- cording Fathometers that could op- erate in the deep ocean, making possible the detailed mapping of features such as the mid-Atlantic

Ridge. In the late 1940s, Professor

Ewing initiated a deepsea coring program on such a widespread scale that—prior to the Glomar

Challenger expeditions— the La- mont scientists had taken more than half of the total core samples retrieved from the ocean floor. Pro- fessor Ewing and his associates also contributed to the field of seis- mology with the identification of types of surface waves from earth- quakes and the development of a mathematical theory to interpret such data.

During his wartime service at the Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution, Professor Ewing car- ried out fundamental studies on sound transmission in the ocean, developed a bathythermograph which made it possible to predict sonar transmission characteristics, and conceived a new approach to long-range sound transmission (SOFAR) which developed into an air-sea rescue network. SOFAR brought Professor Ewing the Na- vy's highest civilian honor—the

Distinguished Public Service

Award. In addition to the Navy award, Professor Ewing has been the recipient of 26 other awards and eight honorary degrees from professional and scientific societies and universities throughout the world. Professor Ewing is also a former president of both the Amer- ican Geophysical Union and the

Seismological Society of America.

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