Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loftiest quarterdecks. Morison quotes the German statesman-naturalist Alexander von Humboldt: "There are three stages in the popular attitude toward a great discovery: first, men doubt its existence; next, they deny its importance; and finally they give the credit to someone else." Author of Admiral of the Ocean Sea and other books about Columbus, Morison does all an old salt can to set the log straight about those before and after his favorite explorer...
Continental Drift. The new idea stems from discoveries that in the past few years have drastically revised classical geophysical theories. Although it was once thought that the ocean floor has remained stationary and relatively unchanged for billions of years, scientists are now certain that it is continually spreading and being renewed with fresh material welling up from a 47,000-mile-long chain of volcanically active undersea ridges. As this new rock from deep within the earth's mantle moves slowly away from the mid-ocean ridges, it carries the continents along, thereby providing the mechanism for continental drift...
...past two months, mysterious explosions have sunk three tankers off the coast of Africa. Last week four crewmen were killed when a Swedish tanker blew up in a Hamburg drydock. Loaded, the Europoort carries enough oil to pollute beaches from Holland to Spain, though Esso strictly bans any ocean discharges except in dire emergencies. Empty, the ship is as potentially explosive as nitroglycerin, with a rich mixture of oxygen and oil fumes in its massive tanks. To prevent inadvertent explosions, a Japanese company has designed an automatic system that forces inert, nonflammable gas into emptying tanks, thus displacing oil fumes...
...York City is at the end of the land, and I like being near the ocean. At the edge. I have sympathy for the outlaw, the deviant. I am attracted by something extreme. I like to see real crazy people. That's why I live in New York. It is kind of a boil. You can really see the sickness there. As an artist, who must deal with these things, I am a little proud to have existed through all this. I'm a little bit crazy myself...
...answer, claims the ad, is that one SST moving at 1,780 m.p.h. "will emit no more pollutants per mile than three compact automobiles traveling at 60 m.p.h." As for sonic boom, the craft will be banned over land. At sea, the ad contends, the boom effect on the ocean surface will be "comparable to the impact of a fisherman's spinning lure hitting the water...