Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hull designs have made small concessions to the years; they are built for simplicity and safety, for ease of maintenance and sea-kindliness, and the comfort of their crews. Near by, their neighbors wait for an afternoon sail to a convenient cove, a chase around the buoys or an ocean thrash that will strain the speed and strength of modern racing machines. But these are purely cruising boats. Their skippers are cruising men, more concerned with the unchanging requirements of the sea than with the changing compromises of racing-handicap rules. They are satisfied with what are essentially old-fashioned...
...congestion began late last summer, after the U.S. agreed to sell Russia 733 million bushels of grain, putting an unexpected strain on railroad facilities. The situation worsened when delays in transferring the grain from railroad cars onto ocean carriers held up Russian shipments until November -just in time to coincide with one of the biggest grain harvests in U.S. history and an unprecedented demand by European countries for American produce. The big surge of new orders further clogged U.S. harbors with ships, delaying unloading of grain-laden hopper cars even more. Then Mother Nature stepped in, sending the Mississippi over...
Schwarz-Bart sets the foundations for his novel far away from Guadeloupe, in the West Africa of the Diolas. They live "in a calm and intricate estuary landscape, where the clean water of a river, the green water of an ocean, and the black water of a delta channel mingled -- and where, so it is said, the soul was still immortal." Their culture is joined to the elements of nature which allow them to live, and their history follows a seasonal cycle. Ancestors are perpetually reborn, and the traditions they established are honored. The community is so constant...
...belief, is not accidental spillage or the breakup of supertankers like Torrey Canyon. Most of this pollution is actually caused by routine tanker operations. Before entering harbor to take on a new load of crude oil, sea water used as ballast on the return trip is flushed into the ocean; it includes a small amount of crude oil (usually about one-half of 1% of the tanker's capacity) left over from the previous load. In this manner, the world's tanker fleets annually dump an estimated 1,000,000 tons of oil residue into the oceans...
Best of all, RAG1 cannot harm other life in the ocean. "We took the bacteria from nature," says Gutnick. "They are there and they are fastidious about what they like and do not like." When the bacteria run out of oil, they conveniently die and are themselves eaten by fish...