Word: corals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steady old Keith has also sealed a bargain with adventure. During a typhoon the yacht smashes up on a coral reef near Tahiti, and Janice's parents are killed. As the child's trustee, Keith pieces together the puzzle of her missing legacy: the box of "trinkets" contained ?27,000 in diamonds smuggled out of England to dodge currency restrictions. Keith's conscience will not let him rest until he gets a look at the wreckage on that distant coral reef...
...Cannes, skindivers soar around beds of jeweled coral-reds, violets, purples, yellows-in pursuit of sea bass and mullet. In Australia they prowl the caverns of the1,250-mile Great Barrier Reef, or play tag with the gregarious seals that frolic off Carnac Island. Near London, divers happily muddle through the ooze of a dank lake in Black Park...
...their lives, have been inspired to imaginative fantasies about life in the depths. One modern writer who has been there is Clare Boothe Luce, playwright turned diplomat. In a memorably lyrical series for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, she reported her experiences: "What fishes like flowers, what stones like trees. The coral reefs are a golden girdle of dead and living cities, which dwarf in their age and beauty all the cities of man." Says Ray Hoaglund. a 34-year-old electrician and one of the nation's 200,000 free divers (world total: 350,000): "We're looking for something...
...rich natural resources (nearly half the world's rubber, a fifth of its tin, a third of its copra) could handily pay for. But 95% of Indonesia's 90 million inhabitants, living in a subsistence rural economy that lies below the modern urban superstructure like the coral foundation of a South Pacific atoll, are undisturbed by the currency crises and budgetary storms that agitate the fringing reefs above...