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Abyssal plain, 15
Bathysphere, 173, 175
Agar, 65, 68
Beam trawl, 36
Agulhas Current, 147, 150
Beaufort Scale, 133, 134
Aircraft:
Beaufort, Sir Francis, 133
anti—submarine, 204, 205
Beebe, William, 173
carriers, 185
Beetle, 177
Albatross, 17
Belgica, 17
Aleutian Trench, 132
Bellamy, David, 218
Algae, 28
Bends, 161
harvesting, 64
Benguela Current, 150
Alginates, 65
Ben Franklin, 157
Alginic acid, 65
‘Bifocal’ sonar scanner, 35
Aluminaut, 173, 179
Bikini Atoll, 220
Aluminium, 113, 114, 129
Biological cycle, oceanic, 31
Alvin, 174, 175, 176, 179
Bismarck, 184, 185
American desalinatîon programme, 92
Blake, 17
Anaphylaxis, 67
Blake’s Plateau, current over, 147
Anchovy, 30, 33, 151, 228
Blue—green alga, 68
catch, Peruvian, 214
Blue Water 2, 108
Anderson, W. R., 211
Blue Whale Units, 46
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Anodic effect, 37, 38
Bond, George F., 163, 166
Antibiotics, 42, 68, 69
Bore, 140
and sh rearing, 56
Boron, 129
Aqualung, 159
Botulinum toxin, 66
‘Aquatic’ mice and dogs, 170
Bow:
Archimède II, 173
bulbous, 191
Ardtoe, 58
ram, 191
Ark Royal, 184, 185
Brazil Current, 150
Articial fertilization of sea lochs, 55
Breakwaters, inuence on waves, 135
ASROC (Anti—Submarine Rocket), 204
Breathing mixtures of gases, 162
Aswan High Dam, 95, 97
Breton, E. J., 82
Atlantis, 18
Brine shrimps, 55
bulk cultivation, 57
Bacterial sh spoilage, 43
British Antarctic Survey, 154
Ballast system, variable, in Alvin, 174
British Commercial Oceanology Study
Barrages, 97, 98
Group, 19
Barrier Dam, 98
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British desalination programme, 92, 93
Barton, Otis, 173
Bromine, 119
Basket trap, 37
extraction, Dow process, 120, 121
Bathyscaphe, 173
With tetraethyl lead in petrol, 119
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