The project concerns the origins and growth of oceanography in the United States, and examines the development and expansion of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Interviews conducted by Calvert with oceanographers and administrators. Interview subjects: Robert Abel, Dayton L. Alverson, Gustaf O. Arrhenius, T.S. Austin, Karl Banse, Clifford Barnes, Sir Edward Bullard, Wayne Burt, John V. Byrne, John C. Costlow, Butler K. Couper, Robert Dietz, Kenneth O. Emery, James Faughn, Felix Favorite, Richard H. Fleming, Richard Geyer, Earl E. Hays, Joel W. Hedgpeth, J.R. Heirtzler, Clarence P. Idyll, John Isaacs, F.D. Jennings, Martin Johnson, Alan Kohn, Dale Keipper, Gordon Lill, Carl Lorenzen, John Lyman, Conrad Mahnken, Arthur Maxwell, Hilary Moore, Walter H. Munk, William Aaron Nierenberg, Boyd D. Olson, W.C. Pearcy, Willis Pequegnat, Russell Raitt, Al Redfield, Joe Reid, Roger Revelle, Marson C. Sargent, Waldo L. Schmitt, George G. Shor, F.G. Walton Smith, Edward Snyder, Fred Speiss, Athelstan Spilhaus, Henry B. Steinback, Hank Stomell, Thurman K. Treadwell, Allyn Vine, Richard C. Vetter, R.P. Von Herzen, and Ferris Webster.