Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been asked to speak this morning as we pause to honor Christopher Columbus, the admiral of the ocean sea, and the accomplishments and contributions of Americans of Italian descent to our nation, the positive benefits of those who followed Columbus to America. It was best to begin this presentation with that famous poem for it emphasizes the theme that will run through this entire speech this morning-one of perseverance...
...King John of Portugal, but was not granted any funds as King John thought Columbus mad. And yet he persevered. At last, he convinced Queen Isabella of Spain to finance his journey. With his three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, he crossed the Atlantic Ocean. It is interesting to point out that one-third of his crew was composed of teenagers, black and white, some as young as fourteen. The journey across the Atlantic is a long one. I have crossed that ocean, in a vessel much larger and stronger than any of Columbus' ships...
...Columbus sailed the ocean blue...
...women. Yet the most awesome aspect of this Dantean terrain is the inferno that may be hidden beneath it. After three recent expeditions to the Afar triangle, a Belgian volcanologist named Haroun Tazieff concludes that subterranean forces may slowly transform the area into a section of a large new ocean...
Free Power. Not all scientists are willing to accept the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden as embryonic oceans. But Ta-zieff's evidence is highly persuasive. For one thing, much of the rock that his expeditions gathered in the area is younger and heavier than typical land rocks, and bears other similarities to specimens found on the ocean floor. For another, the desert regions of the Afar triangle are covered with a thick layer of evap-orites, the salty debris left behind after seawater evaporates. Tazieff and his colleagues also found distinct traces of coral in the area...