---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 715"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "715"
heading: "Oceanographic research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/715"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Establishment, Powers, Duties, and Administration"
  - "Chapter 7 — Cooperation"
---

# §715. Oceanographic research


The Coast Guard shall conduct such oceanographic research, use such equipment or instruments, and collect and analyze such oceanographic data, in cooperation with other agencies of the Government, or not, as may be in the national interest.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 87–396, § 1, Oct. 5, 1961, 75 Stat. 827, § 94; renumbered § 715, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 106(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4203.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 94 of this title as this section.