Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently Icelandic naval vessels were sent out to harass British fishing trawlers by dragging the waters with a device that cuts the fishing-net towlines. Enraged British fishermen demanded government protection, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson reluctantly dispatched three Royal Navy frigates and three ocean tugs to fishing areas near Iceland to run interference for the trawlers...
...case, given the North Atlantic's chronic wintertime high winds and rough waters, such naval games of chicken were bound to produce collisions. A fortnight ago the confrontation grew more serious. While seeking shelter from a gale two miles off Iceland's coast, the unarmed British ocean-going tug Lloydsman was fired on by the Thor. Iceland says the Thor fired one shot, which struck the British vessel; Britain says the Icelandic boat fired three shots that missed...
JAWS. The great white shark brought in $150 million, promoted a lot of jokes about ocean swimming and made, not incidentally, a vastly entertaining thriller directed by Steven Spielberg...
SHIPWRECK by John Fowles. Photographs by the Gibsons of Stilly. Little, Brown. $7.95. Four generations of the Gibson family have photographed dramatic shipwrecks off the Cornish coast of southwest England. They rarely lacked subjects. As Novelist John Fowles argues, this patch of ocean "may well be the most terrible ten square miles in maritime history." Some 2,000 British seamen drowned there one night in 1707; the most celebrated recent victim was the oil freighter Torrey Canyon, which was reduced to catastrophic flotsam in 1967. The Gibsons' pictures (the earliest dating from 1872) all capture the ruined beauty...
Wilder knew his limits as few members of the Lost Generation knew theirs. A onetime archaeology student, he took the long view. From Julius Caesar's Rome in his novel The Ides of March to Grover's Corners, N.H., in Our Town, it was "the ocean-like monotony of the generations of men" that fascinated him. He had a Roman mind and an American heart. He saw "the absurdity of any single person's claim to the importance of his saying, 'I love!' 'I suffer!' " But his democratic passion was writing about...