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National Geographic : 1964 Jun
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Tomorrow on the Deep Frontier By EDWIN A. LINK The wet world-three-quarters of our planet-awaits us. A pioneer of the depths describes our exciting future undersea. HE SINKING of the Thresher sent out ever-widening ripples-ripples that will not be stilled. This disaster changed the course of our study of the ocean, greatly in creased its impetus, and dramatized the need for a new science: oceanology. Oceanology is a recently coined term. It embraces both the established fields of ocean ography-the understanding of the seas-and the challenging new field of ocean engineer ing-their use. Ripples from the lost submarine reached me in Monaco harbor. I had just docked my research ship Sea Diver after a two-week cruise when I saw my friend Rear Adm. Charles Pierce, director of the International Hydrographic Bureau in Monte Carlo, pacing the pier. A veteran of the U. S. Coast and Ge odetic Survey, he bore urgent news. "Admiral Stephan has been trying to reach you from Washington. He wants you on the phone right away." I was puzzled-and intrigued. Rear Adm. E. C. Stephan then headed the United States Navy Oceanographic Office. Could his urgent 778 call concern the Thresher? Aboard Sea Diver Crewmen of a disabled nuclear giant scramble to safety aboard a miniature submarine: a tech nique proposed by the U. S. Navy's Deep Submer-
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