Word: ocean
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With long-range navigational aids (LORAN), ships at sea can plot their locations to within one nautical mile. Under clear skies on a calm ocean, a good navigator can take an equally accurate fix with a sextant. But nothing does the job as well as the Navy's all-weather Transit satellite navigational system, which can pinpoint a ship's position to about 300 ft. Until now, Transit has been classified because it guides the Polaris missile submarine fleet, but last week the Government released it for use by any U.S. merchant ship...
...much larger numbers than now. Britain plans to base recently purchased U.S. F-111 jet fighter-bombers both in Singapore and in Australia. So far, there is no change in its plan to establish "staging bases" with the U.S. on tiny atolls such as Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. It is, however, giving up much of its remaining naval striking power; it plans to retire its four remaining aircraft carriers by the mid-1970s...
...have made the Torrey Canyon bill about $6,000,000. Because less foam is required with the Esso technique, it could further reduce the expense of oil dispersal to about $1,300 per hundred tons-plus the cost of application and collection-if it proves successful on the open ocean...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Deep Frontier" examines the tools and methods man is using to investigate ocean depths. Taking part are Jacques Yves Cousteau, Jon Lindbergh and Scott Carpenter. Repeat...
...Second Synch. The basic element in the system is electronic measurement of the distance between aircraft, each of which must carry an atomic timepiece synchronized to a network of ground-based master clocks. In places where master-clock stations are not feasible, such as remote ocean areas, one plane would take over as the master clock, and all other planes in the sector would synchronize with it. The whole system would operate at dazzling speed: 196 converging aircraft, all of whose clocks were completely unsynchronized, could sort themselves out and synchronize in 30 seconds...