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...rest, nobody is quite sure, and the waterlogged hulk of the R.L.S. is almost "transparent" to sonar blips used to locate submarines. But it seems likely that she lies in about 3,500 ft. of water-not deep enough to activate the fuses. Because the added pressure of a vessel passing overhead might detonate her, all shipping was ordered to keep clear. But early attempts to explode the lost ammo ship with bombs dropped by Navy Invader jets were in vain. The special fuses fitted to three 1,000-lb. bombs...
Buildings & Brides. Another coup came last year when Kroyer was called upon to salvage a 2,700-ton steamer that had sunk in Kuwait harbor and could not be raised by conventional pumping. Though he had never raised any vessel bigger than a test tube, Lab-lubber Kroyer had the answer. He shot the hull full of pea-sized, high-flotation, plastic-foam pellets until it bobbed to the surface, pocketed a handsome...
With former Book Week Editor Theo dore Solotaroff at the editorial helm, it is trying to steer a sprightly yet sober course-between being a vessel of the mad moment and a steady bearer of lasting literature. If it sometimes flounders in confusion, N.A.R., Number 1 is a more than welcome sight on current publishing waters, which are elsewhere choked with literary junks...
...pioneering work fresh in his mind, Williams flew to Manaus, Brazil, last month to fulfill a longstanding six-week commitment to serve as senior scientist aboard the Alpha Helix, a sophisticated research vessel operated by California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From Manaus, Williams headed the Alpha Helix upstream for the expedition's shore camp at the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Rio Branco. The Negro, at high-water level during this time of year, "looked like Chesapeake Bay," says Williams. Along the shore, trees and plants were steeped in 30 ft. of the river...
...annually to 453.6 million. Making this possible is Europoort's strategic location: five industrialized nations, with a total population of 168 million, are within 400 miles. Refined oil is loaded into trucks and rail cars, hauled inland by barge along the Rhine and Meuse rivers or transshipped by vessel. Crude oil can also be sent through a pipeline that cuts cross-country to Frankfurt. Next year a new pipe line to the Ruhr promises to pump 40 million tons annually, which will double the present line's capacity...