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...been bringing, wildcatting has taken on a new frenzy. Much of the world's unexplored oil wealth lies largely offshore, and this winter hundreds of hopeful gamblers are working round the clock in the freezing storms of the Canadian continental shelf. TIME Correspondent James Wilde recently visited one rig 96 miles southwest of Halifax, N.S. His report...
...into the sea bottom 340 ft. below. Already the drill is bringing up samples from 2,000 ft. below the shelf. The samples are carefully analyzed for hints of oil, but the drill may have to bite as deep as 17,000 ft. to find a real gusher. The rig itself costs upward of $20 million to build and more than $45,000 a day to operate...
...barge's 20-man drilling crew, which work twelve-hour shifts, are a rugged bunch, mostly from Canada's maritime provinces. They make $4.60 to $7 an hour, spending two weeks on the barge followed by one week off. Nearly every aspect of oil-rig life is designed to speed the race for oil, from plentiful food (four steaks for some at midday dinner) to strictly enforced rules (no booze on board...
...does not play favorites. Tabarly, a navy commander, was barely halfway to Capetown when his titanium mainmast collapsed. By radio, Tabarly ordered a new spar. Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...
ROAD MOVIE is a pitifully clumsy yarn about a couple of truckers (Robert Drivas, Barry Bostwick), the hooker they pick up for relaxation (Regina Baff), and the interstate agonies of owning a rig and trying to haul your freight to Chicago on time - before the gas crisis. Director Joseph Strick has made several other films (The Balcony, Ulysses), although it is not apparent here. Road Movie is a shambling hour and a half padded out with highway footage photographed from the truck's cab. The woman's character is the most interesting in the film, though there...