Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wingate also reports a bright spot amid the goo. The Bermuda cahow, a rare marine bird supposedly doomed by pesticides flushed into the ocean, is apparently staging a comeback. This year the world's last 24 pairs of cahows have produced twelve healthy chicks. A likely reason, Wingate thinks, might be that the rising tide of floating tar is at least temporarily absorbing the harmful pesticides...
...sentence, Cavett asked Groucho: "Do you have the feeling Truman is dominating this conversation?" The rebuke silenced Groucho for only five seconds. Even when he is off the air, Cavett is on. To a waitress who brings him a well-prepared fish dish, he says: "My compliments to the ocean." Spotting Alec Guinness' name on a marquee, he instantly visualizes an apt anagram: GENUINE CLASS...
Britain will also keep three communications and refueling bases in the Indian Ocean, partly to keep watch over what Heath sees as a growing Russian threat in the Indian Ocean. They are among the loneliest, most remote spots on earth, and the loneliest of all is Gan, a dot of coral only 1¾ miles long in the Maldives, 700 miles southwest of Ceylon, 42 miles below the equator, and 2,200 miles east of Africa. For a view of that farthest-flung outpost of a vanishing empire, TIME Correspondent John Blashill recently visited Gan. His report...
Bacteria keep the ocean clean and fertile by degrading dead plants and animals into essential nutrients...
...concentration of pollutants needed to inhibit the chemotaxis of bacteria may reasonably be found in nature. Fogel concluded, Chet and Mitchell speculate that pollutants might concentrate in small areas of the ocean and prevent bacteria from finding food or purifying the water...