Word: midocean
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...thickness of cable covering depends on location. Near shore, insulation is heaviest, up to 4 1/2 in. thick; in midocean, a cable is just over one inch in diameter. Though no cables have worn out their hazards are many-earthquakes, marine worms, icebergs, anchors, wars, fishermen. Finding damaged cables, picking them up is a comparatively simple matter for modern instruments. To keep cables in repair, 30 maintenance ships, strategically placed around the seven seas, go on trouble location at a cost of $1,000 a day, help bring the average yearly cost of upkeep to $300 per mile of cable...
...Bermuda sailed La Dahama, the yacht of Philadelphia Sportsman Albert R. G. Welsh, bound with a captain and crew of three for the Mediterranean. A 55-ft., two-masted auxiliary schooner, she had sailed to Bermuda from the U. S., seemed capable of going anywhere. But last week in midocean a 100-m.p.h. gale swept down upon her, snapped her foremast, pounded her with huge waves, filled her cockpit, flooded her engine, split enormous seams along her keel. Owner Welsh and his crew flew a distress signal, began frantic pumping and bailing...
Smallest boat (49 ft.) in the race-sighted last week in midocean by Captain Frisco-had a skipper of a different stamp. Stoertebeker's Ludwig Schlimbach, until he retired, used to captain Hamburg-American liners across the Atlantic. Grizzled, 59, amused at the elegance of his competitors, Captain Schlimbach arrived at Newport three days before the race, barely managed to lay in enough supplies, rearrange his rigging, borrow water lights and a code book to qualify. Joked he before the start: "Next time I come mitout a boat...
...Australian hero is Air Commodore Sir Charley Edward Kingsford-Smith. Co-pilot and navigator on most of his flights is a thickset, baldish onetime mail pilot named Capt. P. G. ("Bill") Taylor. Because of Capt. Taylor's uncanny ability to find dotlike islands in midocean, Sir Charles's comment after most flights consists of: "Bill's course, as usual, perfect...
...commercial aviation is that vast body of salt water which the ancient Greeks called Ocean. To conquer it has long been the goal of many nations. First step was taken by Germany in the South Atlantic with her Graf Zeppelin and mail planes refueled by a ship anchored in midocean. Next summer Germany will launch a North Atlantic shuttle for mail & passengers with tne Graf's big sister, Hindenburg (LZ-129), and Pan American Airways will send its giant super-clipper ships experimentally across the Pacific. But by last week it became evident that the first to launch...