Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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thalassophobia the ocean...
...overeating?all the time rationalizing that the trouble is in her glands (which it almost never is). Another deliberate anxiety builder is the slogan, "Why grow old?" It introduces a prescription containing a teaspoonful of wisdom, such as the values of exercise and a balanced diet, diluted in an ocean of nonsense about wrinkle erasers and pep medicines. Actually, the less anxiety is associated with the inevitable aging process, the better are people's chances of growing old gracefully and with a sense of fulfillment...
...since the Jumblies set to sea in a sieve had a less likely vessel ridden the ocean waves. Her name was the Cuss I, after Continental, Union, Shell and Superior oil companies. Squat and grey, she was 260 ft. long, lay low in the water and was crowded with stacks of pipe from stem to stern. Like a misplaced obelisk, a 95-ft. oil derrick sprouted amidships over an open well. But as the Ctiss I was towed out of San Diego harbor last week, the importance of her mission belied the oddity of her looks: when she gets...
...easiest place to start drilling would be on land, but unfortunately the crust under the continents and the oceanic islands is too thick (up to 20 miles) to be penetrated. Under many deep parts of the ocean the crust is only three miles thick-and for this reason the leaders of Project Mohole decided that the drilling should be done from a special ship floating in three miles of water. The ship cannot be held over the drill hole by anchor cables extending sideways. Such cables hang in curves and would yield too much to changes of pull from winds...
Belly & Head. The essentials of this system, plus a specially designed drill rig, got their first big test last fortnight when Cuss I, owned by Global Marine Exploration Co. and originally designed to drill oil wells in much shallower water, stationed herself off La Jolla, where the ocean is 3,140 ft. deep. Four outboard propellers driven by 200-h.p. engines churned the water fore and aft, but, according to plan, the ship did not move. Buoys moored 1,000 ft. away carried transponders to repeat sonar waves sent to them underwater. Pilot Ernie Cantu watched a sonarscope showing...