Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with sophisticated electronic gear lurked near by with obvious curiosity about what was going on. The Cachalot was dangled beneath the surface from a 100-ft. boom while Martin, insulated by a hooded wet suit, tried to focus on it. When a wave swell, of which he in the ocean depths was unaware, caused his target to heave up out of camera range, he swam up after it, only to swim even faster the other way when the ponderous bell descended...
Some 3,000 ft. below the surface of the Atlantic, off the northern coast of Florida, the creature peered inquisitively through the dark and murky waters, groping for the ocean bottom. Sweeping its searchlight back and forth like a baleful eye, it spotted a smooth black surface below. Touching down gently, it began to creep along on wheels, stopping occasionally to pick up chunks of black rock with its two 9-ft. arms. Finally, it slowly rose to the surface, its mission accomplished and its curiosity temporarily satisfied...
Bottom Ignorance. The discovery of valuable ore so close at hand is an ironic reminder of how little man knows about the oceans around him. Although scientists have photographed and successfully mapped the hidden backside of the moon, 240,000 miles distant, and made other great strides millions of miles away in space, they have taken only faltering steps in the nearby depths of the seas. No known point on earth lies more than seven miles beneath the surface of the ocean, yet not much more than 5% of the ocean bottom has been explored...
...longer afford the luxury of ignorance about the ocean bottom. Marine "farming" of fish and plant life may eventually be essential to feed the world's burgeoning population. As deposits of minerals, oil and gas are depleted, the virtually untapped resources lying on and beneath the ocean floor become increasingly attractive to industry. In 2,500,000 sq. mi. of offshore area, the U.S. alone has petroleum reserves estimated at 3.2 trillion...
...countries in the world that China has continued to cultivate scrupulously through the otherwise convulsive xenophobia of the Cultural Revolution is Tanzania on the Indian Ocean's western shore. China has even promised to spend $280 million and send the coolie labor to build a railroad connecting Tanzania and Zambia, a plan that the World Bank rejected as uneconomic. Such generosity might well contain the seeds of a quid pro quo: a Chinese monitoring and tracking station in Tanzania when Mao's rockets are ready to whoosh down the Indian Ocean range...