Word: seamount
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Klimley also discovered what may be the reason the hammerheads school year after year at an undersea mountain known as Espiritu Santo, 15 miles east of the Baja Peninsula. The metal-rich seamount, he found, has a particularly strong magnetic field. So do bands of ancient congealed lava that radiate from the seamount like spokes from a wheel. The hammerheads, he believes, can detect this magnetism and use it for navigation. The seamount is essentially a depot: the hammerheads gather there before going out to their feeding grounds...
...Jaws has produced a simple story that is longer on charm than chills. Paloma, 16, lives on an island in the Sea of Cortez (the Gulf of California) and mourns her drowned father. For comfort, she spends her days skindiving at the secret place he had shown her: a seamount, or underwater volcanic formation, where an astonishing variety offish gather and feed...
...decides, with his two companions, to cast his fishing nets there. She cannot stop them or prevent news of the find from reaching all the other fishermen in her village. But she bumps into an improbable ally: a giant manta ray that seems as interested in preserving the seamount as she is. Lest credulity be overstrained, a dust-jacket photograph shows Author Benchley riding on the back of a manta ray. If he can do it, so, presumably, can Paloma. Such authentication is really unnecessary. The Girl of the Sea of Cortez is an underwater morality play with a happy...
Hendrix, who by ironic coincidence published an article in the current issue of U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings titled "The Depths of Ignorance," dealing with the hypothetical stranding of a nuclear sub on a seamount in mid-Pacific, argues that the Navy not only has insufficient bathymetric data on bottoms in all oceans but lacks adequate communication and rescue devices for subs in distress as well. Scorpion, like more than 70 of her sisters in the U.S. nuclear-sub fleet, carried only two buoys mounted on cables fore and aft to mark her position in the event of disaster, plus...
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