SUGGESTED REFERENCES
Reading edition
Books
The Bountiful Sea, Seabrook Hull, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, 1964, 340 pp., $6.95.
This Great and Wide Sea, R. E. Coker, Harper & Row, New York 10016, 1962, 235 pp., $2.25 (paperback).
Exploring the Secrets of the Sea, William J. Cromie, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, 1962, 300 pp., $5.95.
The Sea Around Us, Rachel L. Carson, Oxford University Press, Inc., New York 10016, 1961, 237 pp., $5.00 (hardback); $0.60 (paperback) from the New American Library of World Literature, Inc., New York 10022.
The Ocean Adventure, Gardner Soule, Appleton-Century, New York 10017, 1966, 278 pp., $5.95.
Proving Ground: An Account of the Radiobiological Studies in the Pacific, 1946-1961, Neal O. Hines, University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington 98105, 1962, 366 pp., $6.75.
The Effects of Atomic Radiation on Oceanography and Fisheries (Publication 551), National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council, Washington, D. C. 20418, 1957, 137 pp., $2.00.
Oceanography: A Study of Inner Space, Warren E. Yasso, Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc., New York, 10017, 1965, 176 pp., $2.50 (hardback); $1.28 (paperback).
Booklets
Oceanography Information Sources (Publication 1417), National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council, Washington, D. C. 20418, 1966, 38 pp., $1.50.
A Reader’s Guide to Oceanography, Jan Hahn, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, August 1965 (revised periodically) 13 pp., free.
The following booklets are available from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402:
Undersea Vehicles for Oceanography (Pamphlet No. 18), Inter-agency Committee on Oceanography of the Federal Council for Science and Technology, 1965, 81 pp., $0.65.
Marine Sciences Research, AEC Division of Biology and Medicine, March 1966, 18 pp., $0.15.
Articles
Tools for the Ocean Depths, Fortune, LXXII: 213 (August 1965).
Journey to Inner Space, Time, 86: 90 (September 17, 1965).
Working for Weeks on the Sea Floor, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, National Geographic, 129: 498 (April 1966).
Nucleonics, 24 (June 1966). This special issue on the use of the atom undersea contains the following articles of interest:
Reactors: Key to Large Scale Underwater Operations, J. R. Wetch, 33.
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Undersea Role for Isotopic Power, K. E. Buck, 38.
Radioisotopes in Oceanographic Research, R. A. Pedrick and G. B. Magin, Jr., 42.
Motion Pictures
1000 Feet Deep for Science, 27 minutes, color, 1965. Produced by and available from Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Visual Communications Department, 3 Gateway Center, Box 2278, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230. This film describes the Westinghouse Diving Saucer, which is a two-man laboratory used for underwater research. This is the saucer that is used by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was featured in his motion picture World Without Sun.
Available for loan without charge from the AEC Headquarters Film Library, Division of Public Information, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C. 20545 and from other AEC film libraries.
Bikini Radiological Laboratory, 22 minutes, sound, color, 1949. Produced by the University of Washington and the AEC. This film explains studies of effects of radioactivity from the 1946 atomic tests at Bikini Atoll on plants and marine life in the area 3 years later.
Return to Bikini, 50 minutes, sound, color, 1964. Produced by the Laboratory of Radiation Biology at the University of Washington for the AEC. This film records the ecological resurvey of Bikini in 1964, 6 years after the last weapons test.
Desalting the Seas, 17 minutes, sound, color, 1967. Produced by AEC’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Describes various methods of purifying saline water through the use of large dual-purpose nuclear-electric desalting plants.
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PHOTO CREDITS
Page
2 U. S. Navy (USN)
3 University of Pennsylvania Museum—National Geographic Expedition
5 USN
6 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
7 Diagram, WHOI; photo, S. Hull
9 Top, Oregon State University (OSU); bottom, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
10 Lamont Geological Observatory of Columbia University
12 USN
15 SIO
19 R. H. Backus. Physics Today (November 1965), “Sound Reflections In and Under Oceans,” J. B. Hersey
20 U. S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory, Honolulu, Hawaii
22 USN
24 Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of Washington (LRB)
26 Jan Hahn
27 Franklin GNO Corporation
28 George D. Grice, WHOI
31 SIO
33 OSU
35 Monsanto Research Corporation
37 USN
38 Lane-Wells Company
39 Research Triangle Institute
43 USN
46, 47 & 48 Martin-Marietta Company
49 The Photo Mart
53 Top, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; bottom, Bechtel Corporation
55 U. S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Fish and Wildlife Service; inset, Brookhaven National Laboratory
56 Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo, Norway, courtesy The Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia
57 National Science Foundation
61 S. Hull
Cover photo courtesy James Butler, USN
Author’s photo courtesy General Dynamics Corporation
Frontispiece from Jan Hahn
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THE COVER
The ship on the cover is the trim Atlantis riding the waves about 200 miles south of Bermuda. The first craft built by the United States as an oceanographic research vessel, she traveled more than 1,200,000 miles across the seven seas for a period of 30 years. She “ran” over 6000 hydrographic stations and was used for innumerable dredging, coring, biological, physical, and acoustical research operations. After she was retired from active service at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, she was sold to Argentina, where she has resumed her role as an oceanographic research vessel.
THE AUTHOR
E. W. SEABROOK HULL is an experienced writer and editor in technical and engineering fields. He is the author of The Bountiful Sea, published in 1964 by Prentice-Hall, and Plowshare, another booklet in this Understanding the Atom Series. He is the editor of Ocean Science News and editor and publisher of GeoMarine Technology.
