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...California proved to be great fun with a lot of flying to be had. I logged almost 12 hours of air time in less than 2 1/2 weeks. My traveling companion Rich Graham and I spent the first two weeks in the San Diego area, flying mostly at Torrey Pines, but did some flying inland at Lake Elsinore and Big Black Mountain outside of Ramona, Calif. Our stay in Torrey Pines culminated with a 11/2 hour moonlight cruise over the entire six miles of cliffs at about 400 ft. above the terrain. There were just two of us flying around...
...reason why oilfields and fisheries cannot coexist. Long and extensive oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has not harmed fishing; indeed, oil workers there often catch sizable fish from the drilling platforms. Nor have oil spills at sea hurt fishing. The fishing recovered quickly from the 1967 Torrey Canyon spill off the coast of England; studies by marine biologists reveal that last year's massive Argo Merchant oil spill, which occurred in midwinter when high winds were able to disperse the oil, caused little damage to Georges Bank...
Fortunately, major accidents involving tankers have been infrequent, but those that do occur are spectacular. The Liberian ship Torrey Canyon spilled over 30 million gal. of oil when it went aground off England's Cornwall coast in 1967. The Metula dumped about 16 million gal. of Persian Gulf crude when it grounded in 1974 in the Strait of Magellan, polluting an area where Charles Darwin had gone ashore more than a century earlier to study animals and plants. The Jacob Maersk lost or burned some 26 million gal. when it exploded off Portugal...
...effects of such spills remain to be fully determined. Little long-term damage seems to have resulted from the Torrey Canyon disaster; indeed, the most serious effects on marine organisms have been blamed not on the oil but on the detergents used to disperse it. Spills closer to shore can have much more dramatic effects. Large numbers of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and marine worms were killed almost immediately when a barge capsized and spilled over 200,000 gal. of oil into Buzzards Bay, off Falmouth, Mass., in 1969. Eighteen months later, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported that...
...coast of southwest England. They rarely lacked subjects. As Novelist John Fowles argues, this patch of ocean "may well be the most terrible ten square miles in maritime history." Some 2,000 British seamen drowned there one night in 1707; the most celebrated recent victim was the oil freighter Torrey Canyon, which was reduced to catastrophic flotsam in 1967. The Gibsons' pictures (the earliest dating from 1872) all capture the ruined beauty of such ships: "As tragic," Fowles writes, "as the vanished masterpieces of great sculptors...