Word: oceaneering
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...have come with a device that imitates the sound of water flushing - presumably to disguise any other sounds emanating from the bathroom. But the newer model has a sound system that accommodates an SD memory card, and comes preprogrammed with 18 soundscapes. Some of them - the pounding of the ocean, the Lite FM jazz - appear to be designed to promote meditation. Others - classical music, running water, classical music played over running water - appear to be inspirational. Still others - there's a sort of marching tune in there - are more of the get-on-with-it variety...
Sail Away. Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2 will depart her dock on New York City's West Side at 5 p.m. on Oct. 16 to make her final transatlantic voyage to England. Due to become a floating hotel in Dubai, she will meet her sister ship, Cunard's ocean liner Queen Mary 2, at the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor at 6:15 p.m. After a send off by tugboats and NYC Fire Department boats, the two ships will sail to England in tandem. Good viewing points are along Hudson River Park and Battery Park...
...flame, exploded as she felt rather than smelt the heavy aura of manure and wet straw and damp flesh burst into and flood the hall. He had come. Yes. He had conquered. A wave of liquid fire consumed her body: the first. Again, a wave. It was an ocean that begged to be released. Her bosom, her legs, her whole being was aglow. Another. Another. Yes. Yes. The waves burst forth from her breast, shrieking like wild horses or a chorus of whores:—Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes.They whispered in, hissed in, licked the whorl...
...something happens in our final year. As Harvard begins to clamp their umbilical cords, seniors suddenly find themselves to be small fish in a big tumultuous ocean. Of course they can’t cure cancer just by having worked in a Med School lab for a year! Of course they can’t win the Pulitzer for reporting on war crimes in Chechnya just because they were on The Crimson! As this dreadful cynicism creeps in, Harvard students begin to abandon their dreams of helping New Orleans or children in Ghana; all they really hope...
...Last Secrets, Brad Matsen tells the story of wreck divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler and their search for the truth about the Titanic's sinking in 1912. More than just a tragic iceberg crash, the story the divers uncovered is one of bad management, shoddy construction and an ocean liner that sank so quickly that most passengers didn't know what was happening until it was too late. Chatterton and Kohler talk to TIME about deep sea diving, investigating shipwrecks, and the allure of the Titanic...