 In 1960, "Explorer" transferred to the United States East Coast, where she spent the remainder of her career, focusing mainly on oceanographic research.In 1963, she participated in the EQUALANT I and EQUALANT II subprojects of the International Cooperative Investigations of the Tropical Atlantic (ICITA) project, the first international cooperative oceanographic/meteorological project in which a United States Government scientific agency took part.The Coast and Geodetic Survey retired "Explorer" in 1968.