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...system lies deep beneath the waves, little is known about how its activity affects the formation of mineral deposits, changes the ocean floor and even causes the slow movement of entire continents. During the next three months French and American scientists hope to learn much more about the mysterious undersea area by prowling the depths some 200 miles southwest of the Azores. Their goal: the exploration of a small section of the great volcanic rift valley that cleaves the Atlantic Ocean bottom almost all the way from the Arctic to Antarctica...
Inky Darkness. The expedition is part of Project FAMOUS (for French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study), and is the climactic phase of a three-year international program. It will involve some 60 dives in three of the world's most extraordinary undersea ships: the U.S. Navy's tiny Alvin,* operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the French deep-diving submersibles Archimède and Cyana...
...example from the famous Shadow Over Innsmouth will suffice. The plot concerns a doomed Massachussetts fishing town whose population is obscenely corrupted by intermingling with a race of fiendish undersea creatures. Learning all this, the narrator attempts to flee. On the outskirts of town, he looks back and sees his pursuers "in a limitless stream-flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating, surging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare...
...usually roil in a fit of rage, the skies are oppressively gray, and the fog hangs on for weeks. Yet visitors are flocking to the sea's cold coastline as if it were the Riviera. They are coming to join the world's most frenetic rush for undersea oil and gas. No fewer than 350 companies and consortiums have begun putting up money for the search, investments expected to total $12.5 billion over the next ten years. Their ranks include such American giants as Exxon, Texaco, Mobil, Gulf and Phillips...
...extracting about $1.2 billion a year in taxes from private producers operating in its area of the sea-in addition to its interest in the profits of British Petroleum, which is 48% owned by the crown. Norway will have to export the oil from its area, since the undersea terrain makes building a pipeline to Norway impossible. Two weeks ago, the Norwegian Parliament approved a proposal to pipe oil from its Ekofisk fields to Britain and gas to Germany. By 1980, sales of North Sea oil could be providing the equivalent of $100 annual income for every Norwegian. The Oslo...