Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignominious distinction of failing to hook a single fish. "It's just unheard of not to catch a fish all day," Zewinski says. Actually, the team was not completely shut out, since Zewinski caught a 6-in. sea robin and hauled in a large clam shell from the ocean bottom. The squad also spotted a female whale but decided not to give chase...
...University of Massachusetts in a non-conference tilt at 1:30. The Harvard contingent will be trying to avenge last year's loss to the Minutemen and notch their first win of this season after last week's disappointing defeat at the hands of Columbia, "The Germ of the Ocean...
...Astronomers Martin Ryle and Anthony Hewish in 1974, and for Ethologists Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch in 1973. But still unlikely to be considered for the Nobel Prize are pioneers in exciting new fields like plate tectonics, a unified geological theory that explains continental drift, earthquakes, ocean trenches and mountain formation...
...millions of tons of CO2 poured into the atmospheric sewer each day, about half apparently remains there. Still unclear is where the rest goes. The ocean provide a major natural "sink," soaking up much of its solution, as do the world's great forested zones, which sop up CO2 for photosynthesis...
...Atlantic City's new casinos. Although none of them knew it, at that same moment Texaco oilmen at sea on a drilling rig, which was moored in 432 ft. of water near the edge of the U.S. continental shelf, were playing for much higher stakes. Aboard the Ocean Victory, they nervously awaited the results of a test detonation 14,000 ft. below the ocean floor that could tell the outcome of their $30 million search for oil and natural...