Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into the frigid ocean...
Freelandia could revolutionize air travel. Flying commercially these days on America's glittering cattle cars entails a succession of headaches, frustrations and a substantially lightened wallet. Nobody has to be reminded about Cambridge winters, and around this time of year it's not hard to envision a warm ocean, naked white beaches and a peeling nose. Freelandia could be the answer...
...whether my prize for conservation does any good or not. It is just a drop in the ocean. I think money invested in a company that gives employment to people and good merchandise at a reasonable price is better invested than it would be in charities. I think people want jobs more than they want charity. If I am remembered at all, it will be because I created a lot of jobs for a lot of people...
WHEN THE SKY is very clear over Ambleteuse, you can see Dover's cliffs over the Channel. But when the fog rolls in off the ocean every night, there is one hour of limbo when no one can see anything. The fog comes in with the high tide, which is often with the dusk...
...alongside us. I climbed to the top of the house and out onto the widows' walk. The house is built into a cliff and it dominates the town: We can see for miles around us, into the town and onto the beach. The fog was creeping in. Already the ocean, the beach and the seawall were covered in fog. He has gone to find those people from the beach, I thought, and panicked. The tide comes in in the evening with an incredible speed and Francois can barely walk along the slippery rocks down to the now-covered sand bars...