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  1. Efficiency: Gliding Anchor

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    171
    NoS ID
    325725
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Increase your efficiency and you save time, money - and, probably, a lot of unnecessary stress and worry. A few suggestions: A totally new approach to the problem of holding things still at...

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  2. Underwater: WASP

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    205
    NoS ID
    325876
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: An offshore submersible which can best be described as a cross between a submarine and a diving suit. The Wasp, as it is called, is fully pressurised and has its own life-support system. Its...

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  3. Underwater: Underwater Parachute

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    205
    NoS ID
    325874
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: For all kinds of underwater recovery, a new system of using airbags has been pioneered. The bags are sent down with their own motor, attached to a sunken object by divers and inflated. This...

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  4. Hydraulic Research Station

    Date released
    Feb 1965
    Series name
    Parade
    Issue no
    17
    NoS ID
    327240
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: The study of hydraulic problems at a research station at Wallingford, near London, and research work on harbour construction and shipbuilding there.

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  5. Thermic Lance

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    74
    NoS ID
    351164
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A specially equipped lorry armed with this powerful tool gives the demolition expert a highly mobile weapon that cuts through concrete like a knife through butter - and an underwater lance...

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  6. Australian Offshore Platforms (1976 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. U-matic. col. 25 min.

    Documents the construction and placement of a steel oil platform designed to be permanently fixed on the sea floor up to 80 kilometres off the Victorian coast in the Bass Strait. The design had to last up to...

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  7. Underwater: Underwater Welding

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    205
    NoS ID
    325875
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: The flow of North Sea oil depends upon the drilling of huge production rigs. But how to protect these partially submerged structures from underwater corrosion? Underwater welding has been...

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  8. Understanding Weatherfax

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 37 minutes), $24.95 (+ p&p)

    The development of weatherfax has proved to be of immense usefulness as it enables the mariner to inspect satellite images and charts prepared by weather bureaux in order to locate favorable winds and avoid...

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  9. Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Marine Intelligence

    Date released
    19 Sep 1946
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    902A
    NoS ID
    014052
    Story no
    5 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Recovery of Pluto. DESCRIPTION: PLUTO RECOVERED - The pipe line which carried oil to the advancing troops in wartime Europe is being recovered for salvage. SHOTLIST: KS Pluto (Pipe Line...

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  10. Underwater: Deep Awake

    Date released
    1977
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    205
    NoS ID
    325877
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: With oil drilling now taking place at increased depths, research into the capaciy of divers working under immense water pressure is crucial. There are limits to this pressure, which will...

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