Word: bahamas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Concepción's history was tantalizingly familiar to rival treasure hunters. As the admiral ship of Spain's New World fleet in Mexico, it set off for the mother country in 1641 with a year's haul of gold and silver. Heading up the Bahama Channel toward Florida, it sailed into a hurricane that sank several of the ships in its fleet. The Concepción nearly capsized, but a desperate crew righted her by chopping off chunks of mast and rigging. Her gunpowder soaked, the ship was defenseless against pirates, so the admiral in command...
Even politicians go off the deep end, of course. Take Senator Lowell Weicker and Representative Bill Alexander, who began the August congressional recess with a three-day stay under water off Grand Bahama Island. The pair, both boosters of oceanic research, joined two scientists in the 16-ft. hydrolab operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Apart from a malfunction that sent the lab's temperature soaring to 90° at one point, the amateur aquanauts had little trouble adjusting to their watery environment, or to their spartan diet of soup, fruit, peanut butter and crackers. "Unlike...
...Viet Nam. Like the military's message bearers, TCOM's balloon, or aerostat (from the Greek words for "air" and "one that stops"), as its developers call it, is anchored by cable over a fixed spot on the ground. In a test now under way in the Bahamas, an aerostat floating 11,500 ft. over Grand Bahama Island is picking up TV signals from Miami 110 miles away and rebroadcasting them on a local channel-in effect, trebling the range of the Florida stations without resorting to a satellite, a boost in signal power, costly relay towers...
Seven days before the indictment was handed down, Hughes and a party of ten roared out of London, where he had lived at the Inn on the Park for nearly a year, and flew by private jet to Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island. Arriving at 4 a.m., the entourage moved into four top-floor suites of the Xanadu Princess Hotel. Among its attractions is that it is in a country that recently refused to extradite Financier Robert Vesco to the U.S. to stand trial on an indictment for using telegraph services to carry out a fraud-one of the violations...
...litmus test is provided by three refineries: Texaco Trinidad, Amerada Hess on St. Croix and Bahamas Oil Refining Co. (Borco) on Grand Bahama Island. Together they have a refining capacity of more than 1,000,000 bbl. a day, most of which is shipped to the U.S. Before the cutoff they depended on the Arabs for almost half their crude; if the embargo were fully effective, they should be cutting production drastically by now. Yet the Texaco refinery has reduced by only 60,000 bbl. a day-to 140,000 bbl.-the amount of petroleum products it ships...