Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gaposhkin will talk on any subject, the bigger the better. He expands on universal peace and love, on a letter he wrote to President Nixon: "I said we should take all the biggest bombs, and drop them in the biggest ocean." Before technological progress gave birth to Space War, stargazing seems to have had a pacific influence...
...company has also developed techniques to decrease costly "bounce" dives-twelve hours of on-deck decompression for every half-hour on the ocean floor. Descending in a pressurized diving bell, an Oceaneering diver can work underwater shifts of four hours or more with only four days off out of every 15 for decompression. Another innovation: an experimental suit that encases a diver in normal atmospheric pressure at great depths, thus eliminating the need for decompression altogether...
Handelman has made the future he sought; with Oceaneering stock trading at about $10 over the counter, his 346,479 shares are worth $3.5 million. At present, it seems that the only way his business can go is up. Today, about 20% of the world's oil and gas comes from beneath the ocean floor. By 1985, according to some economists, undersea wells will account for 45% of the supply of those fuels...
...location of the Palmdale bulge has added to scientists' concern. The swelling lies along a stretch of the 600-mile San Andreas Fault, a deep fracture that runs from below the Mexican border to about 100 miles north of San Francisco, where it meets the Pacific Ocean. The fault is actually the boundary of two tectonic plates, huge sections of the earth's outer layer that are sliding in opposite directions. A western sliver of California, on the Pacific plate, is moving northwest. The remainder of the state is being carried by the North American plate toward...
Columbia was floundering in its "Gem of the Ocean" role and eventually finished some six lengths behind the Crimson...