Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN THE EMIGRANTS first sight the ocean, it ripples in a shimmering vision of release. On board, however, new catastrophes begin to recur, and Troell must hit the same balance as before. There is scurvy and lice and stink. But there is also the beauty of a calm sea and sunstroked sails, and a joyous on-deck dance. In America, new wonders and horrors are evoked: the awesome countryside and native paraphenalta, the strangeness of the language and the relative social freedom. And slowly, the Swedes become a small community. Old prejudices fade before new awareness and necessity. The whore...
...sewage-treatment plants, each branded with blue-and-white "clean water" emblems, that dot the shore line. To build them takes money, and it has been forthcoming. San Diego alone has spent $51 million since 1960 to scrub its wastes. Moreover, the sludge does not end up in the ocean but goes back to the land, fertilizing flower beds and lush recreational facilities. Yet even this model scheme is not enough to satisfy the new fervor for clean water. California's water resources control board has adopted a plan so tough that San Diego will require another $21 million...
...last in a series of spectacular ventures, does cause a "nostalgic sadness" in laymen and scientists alike. But as an oceanographer, I firmly believe that now is the time for down-to-earth, technologically complex marine projects to receive a vigorous shot in the arm. The ocean industry is far from having reached its full potential, and if given a boost could absorb at least some of the unemployed space workers. The overriding consideration, however, is the soaring pop ulation growth on our planet, with its obvious food, space and energy needs-and serious pollution problems...
...Cocos Islands, a glistening coral archipelago, lie midway between Australia and Ceylon in the Indian Ocean. The main island, with a population of 500, has been ruled more or less benevolently like a feudal fiefdom for the past 145 years by descendants of a Scottish sea captain named John Clunies-Ross. He settled in the coconut-growing islands in 1827, imported Malay workers from Java to harvest the copra for export, and in 1886 his grandson obtained a grant in perpetuity to the islands from Queen Victoria...
...owned at age two. There are also bull's-eye descriptions of the exquisite boredom of kindergarten, and a fine malevolent parody of children's picture books called The Lonely Island ("Sometimes rain came to the island...but then it went away...The island dreamed "of an ocean with many islands...The island woke up. It saw...another island and...another island...