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Show ; - ; , , v ',! - , " ' r jr " ' - -i x' - ' " yh tff4'$tf$ ' ' AWroaching a 45 degree angle, FLIP is half way to reaching its vertical position to record underwater sounds. The 355 foot vessel was built for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, under the sponsorship and financing of the Office of Naval Research. The ship's "flip" action will be shown in the new Bell System Science Series film, "The Restless Sea," over NBC-TV Friday, January 31. i Telephone Company Will Present The Restless Sea "The Restless Sea," the new Bell System Science Series program pro-gram on oceanography produced by Walt Disney Productions, will be broadcast over NBC Friday, JcVry 31' at 6:30 P-m" The htJI color broadcast is a wide-ranging wide-ranging report on that vast and mysterious "inner space" that covers nearly three quarters of the earth's surface the sea. "The Restless Sea" illustrates in filmed and animated sequence the fascintaing work of oceanog-raphers oceanog-raphers in searching out the complex and interwoven relationships rela-tionships of nature in the sea, integrating the marine applications applica-tions of many sciences including physics, biology, meteorology, geology, chemistry and engineering. engi-neering. Combining exciting and unusual un-usual filmed action from above and below the surface of the sea, the program shows hurricanes hurri-canes and mountainous waves; marine life from the microscopic plankton to the largest mammals; mam-mals; modern instruments that enable scientists to go through layers of sediment on the ocean bottom and obtain a record of earth through the geologic ages; and the latest oceanographic equipment from underwater TV cameras to the FLIP (a research vessel that literally flips on end to record underwater sounds). Animation and diagramatic representations rep-resentations illuustrate movements move-ments of tides and currents; the composition of sea water; topography topog-raphy of the ocean floor with its great seamounts, submarine canyons and trenches; plus many other aspects of the far reaching science of oceanography. |