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...sorely depressed fishing industry, an impressive new structure overlooks the harbor. It is the $6,500,000 concrete-and-glass home of the New England Aquarium, which has finally opened its doors after more than a decade of planning and problems. The wait was worth it. Boston's undersea museum may be the prototype aquarium of the future. At the very least, it is a stunning symbol of man's vastly increased interest...
...huge simulated reef. The visitor can peer into the tank either through a vatlike opening at the top or through the glass walls as he walks down the curving ramps that surround it. The layout is so unorthodox that it seems more like an undersea version of Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral-shaped Guggenheim Museum in New York than the traditional aquarium of low-slung rectangular tanks...
...After years of debate, scientists have finally become convinced that the earth's huge land masses are really moving. As they see it, lava is pouring out of a 47,000-mile-long chain of volcanically active ridges that cut through the oceans. The lava spreads from the undersea rifts and carries the continents along with it (TIME...
Love and Oil. The single most spectacular success story is that of Lieut. General Ibnu Sutowo. He heads Pertamina, the government-owned oil monopoly, which is currently harvesting a fortune in fees from foreign firms for exploration of what may prove to be a huge reservoir of undersea oil off Indonesia's coastline. Pertamina goes its own way, and a very quiet way it is. It does not disclose figures on its operations but hands out lavish financial aid for army-encouraged projects. It also does very well by its own. On a salary of less than...
Missing Deposit. More subtle clues came out of the ocean depths, although few scientists at first recognized their importance. By 1959, Columbia University's marine geologists had completed charting a mysterious 47,000-mile-long chain of undersea mountains and ridges that twist through the middle of the major oceans like the seams of a giant basketball. Strangely enough, the water temperatures near these ridges are considerably higher than those elsewhere in the ocean. In addition, there are ocean-floor fault lines or cracks that were apparently caused by movement of the seabed itself. Although the oceans are billions...