. Allan Hancock Atlantic expedition. Scientific expeditions -- Atlantic Ocean. GEOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT AND STATION RECORDS OF VELERO III IN ATLANTIC WATERS IN 1939 (Plates 1-28) John S. Garth Allan Hancock Foundation INTRODUCTORY REMARKS For nearly a decade, while the Velero III cruised up and down the Pacific coast of Central and South America, it had been in the mind of Captain Hancock to make a voyage of exploration into Atlantic waters. For, with the exception of the day necessarily consumed in the transit of the Panama Canal, the east coast of South America is as accessible from Balboa as th
. Allan Hancock Atlantic expedition. Scientific expeditions -- Atlantic Ocean. GEOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT AND STATION RECORDS OF VELERO III IN ATLANTIC WATERS IN 1939 (Plates 1-28) John S. Garth Allan Hancock Foundation INTRODUCTORY REMARKS For nearly a decade, while the Velero III cruised up and down the Pacific coast of Central and South America, it had been in the mind of Captain Hancock to make a voyage of exploration into Atlantic waters. For, with the exception of the day necessarily consumed in the transit of the Panama Canal, the east coast of South America is as accessible from Balboa as the west coast. Up until 1939, however, the tendency to return to familiar scenes of endeavor had served as a deterrent to any departure from Pacific exploration, no matter how readily accomplished. The occasion for the new venture presented itself in April of 1939, when it was decided to forego another visit to the coasts of Ecuador and Peru in favor of the Atlantic coast of Colombia and Venezuela. Thus, the geographical objective became the Pitch Lake of Trinidad in place of the brea pits of Santa Elena. The scientists, of course, had other objectives. The opportunity of obtaining east coast material to compare with the already large west coast collections was eagerly seized upon by those of the staff whose entire collecting experience had been restricted to Pacific waters. Others with previous collecting experience at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and at the Tortugas laboratories in Florida regarded most highly the opportunity to visit a portion of the Atlantic coast along which little marine biological work had been done. This was particularly true of the bight leading to the Gulf of Darien, a region seldom seen by travelers on the commercial vessels that shuttle between Cristobal and Cartagena by the most direct route possible. Since the history of the Expeditions and the description of the Velero III have been thoroughly covered by Eraser (Vol. 1, No. 1), they need not be repe
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