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...Hatteras, N.C., ten months after the historic 1862 standoff with its Confederate counterpart, the C.S.S. Virginia.* Since then more than 100 artifacts have been recovered from the wreck, including wine bottles and a 1,300-lb. anchor. Despite the Monitor's designation in March as the country's first undersea National Historic Landmark, scientists and Government officials have been unable to decide whether the ship itself can be salvaged. Last week, after a 14-day expedition led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they had a preliminary answer. Said NOAA Project Coordinator Ed Miller: "It is doubtful we will...
...cable will be able to handle the equivalent of 40,000 simultaneous telephone conversations, more than twice the number of transatlantic phone lines now available on the three operating copper-core cables. Together with a $700 million transpacific fiber-optic cable scheduled to be completed in 1989, the new undersea phone lines should provide better connections and lower prices for millions of U.S. consumers and businesses who regularly reach out and touch someone across an ocean...
Callers will hear a noticeable improvement in transmission quality, AT&T promises. The current undersea cables are often overcrowded and frequently suffer from static. And satellite connections, which now carry about 60% of transatlantic phone calls, typically produce an echoey sound and an annoying half-second delay because signals must be sent 22,300 miles up to a communications satellite and back down again. Fiber-optic technology, by contrast, delivers a comparatively pure sound. The ultrathin glass fibers in the cable carry information on laser beams of light, which travel with virtually no susceptibility to electronic interference. Long-distance telephone...
...million hockey rink where Superstar Wayne Gretzky practices with the Edmonton Oilers. The center's Waterpark sports a 600-ft. water slide and a 2.5-acre artificial lake featuring a replica of the Santa Maria and four yellow, 40-ft. submarines that take tourists on $4 "undersea" adventures...
...Gorda Ridge off the coast of California and Oregon. Descending to 13,000 ft., it will enable scientists to get a close-up look at nodules of manganese and other metals that build up near geologically active breaks in the earth's crust. In the future, even more versatile undersea craft will be used to mine these minerals and bring them to the surface...