Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent study of ocean currents and nitrous oxide levels in different areas of the Pacific Ocean indicates that aqueous nitrous oxide may be coming primarily from one side of the earth, McElroy said...
...Senate has already passed an offshore-oil bill that Suffolk County Executive John V.N. Klein feels is "about as good as we can get legislatively." The bill places strict limits on the amounts of oil drillers could leak into the ocean during routine operations and provides compensation for fishermen whose nets and equipment are damaged...
...meteorological satellite was aborted on launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1968, and the nuclear package was recovered intact. As Apollo 13 returned from an unsuccessful moon flight in 1970, the three astronauts had to jettison their unused moon lander, and its power pack plunged into the Pacific Ocean near Australia...
...from Norway that is capable of deep ocean drilling. At the same time, Peking has asserted its sovereignty over vast reaches of the Asian continental shelf. That could mean trouble, since these claims conflict with those made by nearly all of China's neighbors, including Japan and the Philippines. Though South Korea and Taiwan have granted exploration rights in the Yellow and East China seas to several U.S. companies, including Gulf and Amoco, the U.S. Government has cautioned American companies to keep their research craft away from the disputed areas for fear that China might seize...
...increasing numbers of Russian and Cuban advisers, ragtag battalions of tribesmen bloodying each other with modern weapons supplied by outside powers. Now the battlefield is Ethiopia and the high-stakes pawn is the strategic Horn of Africa, which commands the shipping routes through the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean...