Word: plankton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water (not more than a quart a day) plus fluids pressed from raw fish can supply the body's need for water without harm to the system. He also concluded that fish contain all the nutrients necessary to health except vitamin C, which can be obtained from plankton. Bombard saw no reason why a man equipped with fishing tackle and fine-mesh nets for gathering plankton could not obtain from the sea enough food and water to stay alive-and even healthy -for weeks at a time. Determined to prove his theory, he set out from Tangier one morning...
...Frenchman named Alain Louis Bombard, 28, he told open-mouthed passengers and crewmen. He had set out on the raft from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands in mid-October. Since then, he had lived solely on food and drink gathered at sea: fish, sea birds, barnacles, plankton (minute animal and vegetable life floating at the surface), sea water, rain and dew. He had endured his epic voyage, he said, to prove his theory that victims of shipwreck can survive at sea indefinitely if they have the necessary knowledge and equipment, and do not fall into panic or despair...
...turned east over Boston Harbor and headed straight for home and eggs. Ahead, by the shortest route, lay nearly 3,300 miles of the North Atlantic. Puffinus, if he followed the custom of his species, rested occasionally on the water or stopped in a likely spot to refuel with plankton, small water creatures found just below the ocean's surface. But Puffinus wasted no time. He finished the homing trip in 12 3/4 days, averaging about 250 miles...
...typical chapter is Miss Carson's biography of the surface waters. Here is the snake-mackerel, up from the depths, first seen in living form by the Kon-Tiki expedition; here the uncountable creatures called plankton, a community of minute animals and plants. In the ocean food cycle, plankton is eaten by such small fish as the herring, small fish by larger ones like the tuna, larger ones by squids, and all of these by whales. To survive, sea creatures assume remarkable disguises: the Sargasso Sea slug has a soft, shapeless body, exactly like the vegetation in which...
...race. Neither science nor technology nor all the deterministic doctrine inspired by them, nor the despotisms that have tried to force that doctrine upon mankind, have succeeded in producing a world that can function without our individual powers of reason, imagination and conscience. We are not mere sponges or plankton afloat on a tide . . . We are rational beings, capable of charting the tide and navigating it, and even diverting and directing it . . . There is no dialectical or technological substitute for the creative individual...