This collection includes calendars, diaries, correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, photographs, blueprints, memoranda, speeches, maps, awards, medals, and a biographical file of Willard N. Bascom. Correspondents include Nelson Rockefeller, Merle Tuve, Jimmy Doolittle, Henry Kissinger. Subjects documented in this collection include: the Capricorn Expedition; Bascom's company Ocean Science & Engineering, Inc.; diamond dredging in Africa; the Waves Project at University of California, Berkeley; the Mohole Project and other work for the National Academy of Sciences; marine archaeology; treasure hunting; nuclear tests; Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP); publications and speeches, including material on Waves and Beaches", "A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" and Bascom's autobiography, "The Crest of the Wave: Adventures in Oceanography"; and Bascom's friend and colleague John Dove Isaacs.