The determination of the continuous spectral contribution for a stratified ocean acoustic model can be a difficult and expensive numerical task. A uniform asymptotic technique has been used to calculate the pressure field for the Pekeris model. It is uniform in the sense that it is valid as a mode passes through cutoff. The basic idea of the technique is to exploit the effect of the various singular points of the integrand representing the continuous spectrum. This idea has been further exploited to describe the continuous spectrum contribution for a general stratified ocean. Numerical examples show that this technique is both accurate and fast.