Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incentives for undersea exploration extend beyond the historical and archaeological benefits. High-tech fortune hunters are locating sunken treasure ships and recovering their precious cargo. New remote-controlled vehicles are prowling the ocean depths, some dropping listening devices and scouting out potential hiding places for missile-firing submarines. Others are seeking mineral deposits and clues to the movement of the earth's tectonic plates, and charting the two-thirds of the earth's surface that until recently has been largely inaccessible...
Fisher, who had already had some success salvaging treasure from wrecks off Vero Beach, promptly moved to Key West. In 1970 he launched a 16-year, high- tech search for the Spanish ships...
...role in the recovery of wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger. Designed to operate at depths as great as 5,000 ft., the 7,000-lb. ungainly craft uses hydraulic thrusters to maneuver like an underwater helicopter. It has two mechanical arms and is loaded with high-tech equipment. Its three cameras and two sonar systems give controllers on the surface a sweeping view of the depths...
ROVs and other high-tech underwater equipment are no longer the exclusive province of oil companies and the military. Hydro Products of San Diego markets for only $35,995 a 56-lb. model equipped with a panning and tilting color- TV camera and capable of diving to 330 ft. Says Hydro Products Executive Bob McKee: "You can just throw it into the back of your pickup, run out to the site and throw it into the water." Prices are also dropping for such devices as side-scan sonar, which generates high-resolution images of the ocean bottom, and sub-bottom...
...programming could be disrupted, industry executives warned, so could the sensitive data transmissions of business, Government and the military. Although HBO and other broadcasters say they have taken precautions to prevent future disruptions, they were gratified by the grounding of Captain Midnight. "This was a great piece of high-tech gumshoeing," marveled Steve Tuttle, vice president of the National Cable Television Association. "Sherlock Holmes would have been proud...