Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long after he finished Harvard Law School, James Draper St. Clair made his reputation as a superbly skilled trial lawyer in a 1954 dispute-over cranberries. His client, Cape Cod Food Products, Inc., sued the National Cranberry Association, now Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., charging attempted monopoly. Typically, St. Clair not only immersed himself in the legal issues but also diligently learned everything about cranberries, including how weather and flooding affect them. In court he meticulously demolished the association's case. St. Clair won treble damages of $525,000 for his client and rare praise in court from Judge Charles...
...remains, the team has pieced together portions of video tape to confirm that the Monitor's broken hull lies upside down in the water, partly buried under 3½ ft. of sediment. But the ruins of the ship are so fragile that attempts to lift them from the ocean depths would probably cause the 112 year-old vessel to fall apart, and for now it will have to remain at rest in the deep...
...disasters that have struck a fleet of 17 boats competing in the year's most grueling sporting event-the first round-the-world sailing race. Since they tacked out from Portsmouth, England, last September, the competitors have rounded the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the storm-tossed Indian Ocean to Australia, and completed the dreary, dangerous, downhill passage round Cape Horn to reach Rio de Janeiro. This week they will weigh anchor to begin the final leg to Portsmouth, where the winner* will collect no cash-just a modest silver trophy, some medals and the satisfaction of winning...
With no boat claiming a monopoly on trouble, Sayula II recovered from her dunking in the Indian Ocean well enough to take the lead going into Rio. She is a production-line Swan-65, skippered by Mexican Millionaire Ramon Carlin. Adventure, a British navy cutter that has changed crew in every port of call to give more sailors "adventure training," is a distant second...
...been known since Magellan's time, and that he can do it solo, since Slocum's. The boats now competing cost a fortune, and the race has cost three lives. Having exacted entry fees of .?150, Whitbread has at least shown that it can get an ocean of publicity for a pannikin of small change...