Seven-Tenths
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Ambush, HMS 1
American Indians 1
amniotic fluid 1
Amphion, HMS 1
Andrea Doria 1
Angle Shades (moth) 1
Antillia (Seven Cities) Is. 1, 2
aquarium fish 1, 2
Aquino, Corazon 1, 2, 3
Aral Sea 1
Argand, Emile 1
Arizona, USS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Armstrong, Warren 1 n
asdic 1, 2, 3, 4
Atlantic Telegraph Co. 1, 2
Atlantis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Audubon, John J. L. 1, 2
auks 1, 2, 3
Avery, John (‘Long Ben’) 1
‘azoic’ theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Baarslag, K. 1 n
Babcock, W. H. 1 n
Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1, 2, 3
Bajau 1
Baker, Henry 1
Ballantyne, R. M. 1
Ballard, Robert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Bangladeshi pirates 1
Barrow, John D. 1 n
Barton, Otis 1
basnig 1
Bathurst, Bella 1
Bathybius haeckelii 1
bathyscaphe 1
bathysphere 1, 2
bats 1
beachcombing 1
Beacon, HMS 1
Beagle HMS 1
Bedouin 1, 2, 3
Beebe, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Bering Sea 1, 2, 3
BGN/ACUF 1
bioluminescence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bismarck 1
Blackbeard 1
Blackburn, Lt-Cdr John 1
‘black smokers’ 1 n, 2, 3
bleach (illegal fishing) 1
Bligh, Capt. William 1
‘blinders’ 1
bootleggers (liquor, West Virginia) 1
Boracay Is. 1
Bournemouth 1
Bowfin, USS 1, 2, 3
branchial clefts 1
Brasil Is. 1, 2
buccaneers, homosexual 1
Buchanan, John 1
Buckland, William 1, 2, 3
Budge, E. A. Wallis 1 n
Buffon, Comte de 1
buli-buli 1
Bulldog, HMS 1
Burg, B. R. 1 n
Burgess Shale 1
Bush, George 1 n
Buss Is. 1, 2, 3
Café de Paris, bombing of 1 n
calenture 1
Camp, L. Sprague de 1 n
Campion, Mary 1 n
‘cannon test’ 1, 2
Carrington, Richard 1 n
Carson, Rachel 1 n
Carter, Howard 1
Central America, SS 1
cetaceans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Challenger, HMS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
‘Channel Fever’ 1
Channel Tunnel 1, 2
Chanticleer, HMS 1
chivalry, humbug of 1
Cicero 1
Cinnabar moth 1
Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone 1
Clarke, Arthur C. 1
Cleodora 1
Cod War 1
coelacanth 1 n, 2
Columbus, C. 1, 2
compressibility of seawater 1
Conrad, Joseph 1, 2, 3 n, (254), 4, 5, 6
continental drift, theory of 1, 2, 3
‘continuity of chalk’, theory of 1
convergent evolution 1
coral 1et seq., 2 n
coriolis force 1
Cousins, Mark 1 n, 2 n
creationism 1, 2, 3
Crowhurst, Donald 1 n
‘cucumber solution’ 1, 2
cyanide (illegal fishing) 1
Cyclops, HMS 1
Daily Times (New York) 1 n
Dallorto 1
Daly, R. A. 1
Dampier, William 1
Danube 1
dark, the 1, 2
Darling, Grace 1
Darwin, Charles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
‘Davy Jones’ 1
Deacon, Margaret 1
decommissioning 1
decomposition 1, 2, 3, 4
Deep Scattering Layer (DSL) 1, 2, 3
density of seawater, maximum 1
depths, record 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Desceliers, Pierre 1
Devil’s Is. 1, 2
discards 1, 2, 3
diving (free) 1, 2, 3
dodo 1
Dogger Bank 1, 2
domestic animals, ecological damage by 1
Doña Marilyn 1, 2
Doña Paz 1, 2
Donati, V. 1
Donne, John 1
Dougherty Is. 1
Dover, white cliffs of 1
Doyle, Conan 1, 2
drift nets 1, 2, 3
Dunwich 1
Dutton, Thomas 1, 2, 3, 4 n
dynamite (illegal fishing) 1, 2, 3
E49 (submarine) 1
Earhart, Amelia 1
Earthtrust 1 n, 2
Eddington, Sir A. 1, 2
Eden, Garden of 1, 2, 3, 4
EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
electricity (illegal fishing) 1
elephants 1
elephant seals 1
Ellis, John 1, 2
Ellrich, A. 1 n
Emmanuel 1
Enderby Is. 1
Erebus, HMS 1
Eskimos (Inuit) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
euphotic zone 1, 2, 3
Eve (‘Mitochondrial’) 1
Ewing, Winnie 1
‘extremophilia’ 1, 2
fans (river and submarine) 1
Farnella, R/V Ch. 1 passim, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Fawcett, Lt-Col Percy 1
feral children 1
Field, Cyrus W. 1
Finwhale, HMS 1
‘First law of travel’ 1
Fish Commission (US) 1
Fisher, Robert L. 1
‘Flat Earthers’ 1
foetus, ‘breathing’ of infants in utero 1
Forbes, Edward 1
Forth Bridge 1
fossils 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Franklin, Sir John 1
Freud, Sigmund 1, 2
Frobisher, Martin 1
fulmars 1, 2
‘Gaia’ hypothesis 1
Galilee, Sea of 1
gannets 1, 2, 3
Garnier, Charles G. T. 1
GEBCO 1
geodetic points 1
Gaddafi, Col. 1
ghost net 1, 2
giant squid 1
glaciation 1
GLORIA Ch. 1 passim, 1, 2
gold 1, 2
Golding, William 1
Goode, G. Brown 1 n
Gosse, Edmund 1 n, 2
Gosse, Philip 1, 2, 3, 4
Gould, Stephen Jay 1 n, 2 n
GPS (Global Positioning System) 1, 2, 3
gravimeter 1, 2
Gray, Edwyn 1 n
‘Green’ movement 1
Gulf of Sirte 1
Haeckel, Ernst 1
Hallam, Arthur 1
Halobates 1, 2
Harty, Sir Hamilton 1
hatchet fish 1
‘heat death’ of universe, theory 1
Heyerdahl, Thor 1
Hirschfeld, Magnus 1 n
Hjort, Johan 1
Homer 1, 2
homosexual pirates 1
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1
horror vacui 1
Huggett, Quentin 1, 2
Hughes, Hector 1
‘Hump Day’ 1
Hunter Is. 1
hunting 1, 2
Huxley, Thomas Henry 1, 2
ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) 1
imaginary voyages 1
incompressibility of water 1 et seq.
Industrial Revolution 1, 2
infrared ‘vision’ 1
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (former) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 n
Isabella, HMS 1
Îles du Salut 1
James, M. R. 1
Jasper, USS 1
Jeans, Sir J. 1, 2
‘Jenny Haniver’ 1, 2
Johnson, Amy 1
Johnston, George 1 n, 2 n, 3
Johnston Is./Atoll 1, 2, 3, 4
Johnston, Keith 1
JOIDES 1
Jonah (Hebrew prophet) 1, 2
Jones, R. V. 1 n
Jordan, Paul 1 n
Kababish 1
kakapo 1
Kaye, Emily (murder victim) 1 n
Kelvin, Lord 1
Kermadec Deep 1
Keulen, van 1
Kingsley, Revd Charles 1, 2
knowledge (and light) 1
(loss of) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Kon-Tiki 1
Kostelanetz, André 1
Kraken 1, 2, 3
krill 1.
Kropotkin, Peter 1, 2
landscape and the parental 1
(loss of) 1
Law, R. 1 n
Lear, Edward 1
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1
Lightning, HMS 1
light (under water) 1, 2, 3
(in space) 1
Lim Ah Hong 1
limen 1, 2
Linnaeus, Carl 1, 2, 3
Linton, Edwin 1 n
‘living fossils’ 1, 2, 3
Livy 1
Loch Leven Castle 1
Loch Ness Monster 1
Lockerbie 1
Lophelia pertusa (cold water coral) 1 n
Lord Howe Is. 1
Lovelock, James 1
Lusitania 1
Luther, Martin 1
Lyell, Charles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Macy’s Is. 1
Maeterlinck, Maurice 1 n
Magellan, Ferdinand 1
magnetometer 1
Mahon, Patrick 1 n
manganese nodules 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mao Tse-Tung 1
Marcos, Ferdinand 1, 2
Marianas Trench 1
Mary Celeste 1 n
Marine Society, the 1
Marsigli, L-F 1
‘Martha’ (last passenger pigeon) 1
Mary Rose 1, 2
Masters, Brian 1 n
matelotage 1
Maury, Matthew Fontaine 1, 2, 3, 4
Mawken 1
Maxwell, Robert 1 n
Mayda Is. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
McConnell, Anita 1 n
Mérimée, Prosper 1
Mickleburgh, Edwin 1
Miller, Glenn 1
‘missing link’ 1
MNLF 1, 2
monsoons 1
monsters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
monuments 1, 2
moon landing, as hoax 1
More, Sir Thomas 1
Moscow Institute of Oceanology 1
Moscow Institute of the Physics of the Earth 1 n
Murray Fracture Zone 1
Murray, John 1, 2
Musicians Seamounts 1
Musil, Robert 1 n
Musimu, Patrick 1 n
Nabokov, Vladimir 1
Narborough, Sir J. 1
NASA 1, 2 n
Necker Ridge 1
Nelken, M. 1
Nelson, Richard 1, 2
Nemo, Capt. 1
Nilsen, Dennis 1
Nimmo, H. Arlo 1
Noah/Noah’s Flood 1, 2, 3
‘North Atlantic Boing’ 1, 2
Objets trouvés 1
Oblate Fathers 1
Okinotorishima Is. 1, 2
Oliver, Tim 1 n
Omphalos 1, 2
Onslow, Lord 1
oppositions 1, 2
orientation (in humans) 1
Orr-Ewing, Ian 1
Palmerston, Lord 1
pampano 1
Panama Canal 1
pandas 1
Panmure, Lord 1
‘Parallax’ (pseudonym) 1
Paramount, Mt. 1
parrotfish 1, 2
passenger pigeon 1
Pasteur, Louis 1
Payne, E. J. 1 n
Pearl Harbor 1
Penguin, HMS 1, 2, 3
penguins, as fuel 1, 2
Perec, Georges 1
perfect pitch 1
Permian extinctions 1
Pet Travel Scheme (PETS) 1 n
Peyssonnel, J-A. 1
pheromones 1, 2 n, 3
Phipps, William 1
phosphorescence: see bioluminescence
photosynthesis 1, 2, 3
phytoplankton 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Piccard, Auguste 1, 2
pilgrimage 1, 2
pistol shrimp 1
pit viper 1
plate tectonics 1, 2, 3
Plato 1
Plutarch 1, 2
Podestà Is. 1
pollution, of N. Sea 1 of Pacific 1
of research bases in Antarctica 1
of space 1
Porcupine, HMS 1
Poseidon 1
Power, Adm. Sir A. J. 1
pressure, effects of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
pressure stocks 1
prison islands 1, 2
‘prochronic’ theory 1
Ptolemy 1, 2
Puerto Galera 1
Pyrrho 1
Raffles, Sir S. 1
Reagan, Nancy 1 n
Reagan, Ronald 1, 2 n
Réaumur, R. A. 1
Reclaim, HMS 1
Red Underwing moth 1
Rice, A. L. 1 n
Richard Montgomery 1
Robinson Crusoe 1
Rockall 1, 2, 3
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1
Ross, Sir James Clark 1
Ross, Sir John 1, 2
Rothman, Brian 1 n
Rowbotham, S. B. 1
Ruskin, John 1
Russell, Bertrand 1
Russell, E. S. 1
Rutherford, Ernest 1
Rymsdyk, Jan van 1
Saint-Exupéry, A. de 1
Samal 1, 2, 3, 4
Sama sellang (King of the fishes) 1
Sarah Ann Is. 1
Savage, V. R. 1 n
Scapa Flow 1
Schlee, Susan 1, 2 n
Schliemann, H. 1
science fiction 1, 2, 3
Scorpion, USS 1, 2
Scott, Capt. Robert Falcon 1
Scott, Sir Walter 1
Scripps Institute of Oceanography 1 n, 2
scuba gear 1, 2, 3
‘Sealand’ 1 n
sea lions 1
seals 1, 2
seasickness 1
sea whips 1
Selkirk, Alexander 1
sensory deprivation 1
Shakespeare, W. 1
sharks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Sharp, Bartholomew 1
sheep, as fuel 1
Shelford, W. O. 1
Shroud of Turin 1
Soloviev, S. L. 1
Somerville, Boyle 1, 2, 3, 4
sonar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
sounding 1, 2, 3, 4
souvenirs 1
Soviet Academy of Sciences 1
Soviet Atlas of the Pacific Ocean 1
space 1, 2, 3
space motion sickness (SMS) 1 n
spear gun 1, 2, 3, 4
Spilsbury, Bernard 1 n
St. Brandan Is. 1, 2, 3
Stevens, Wallace 1 n
Stewart, USS 1
St Francis of Assisi (body odour of) 1 n
Stokes, William (death and burial of) 1
Stommel, H. 1 n
‘streamer’ (hydrophone) 1
Suez Canal 1
superstitions 1, 2
Swain’s Is. 1
swim, fishermen’s inability to 1
Swiss Family Robinson, The 1
Tabernacle, the 1
TAC (total allowable catch) 1
Takuyo, R/V 1 n
Tausug 1, 2
Tennyson, Alfred Lord (131), 1, 2
, 3, 4
Teo, S. S. 1 n
Terror, HMS 1
Theophilus of Antioch 1
thermocline 1, 2
The Times Atlas of the World 1
Thomson, d’A. W. 1 n
Thomson, C. Wyville 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Thomson, K. S. 1 n
time, and the sea Ch. 4, passim, 1, 2
Titanic, RMS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
toadfish 1
‘Topological Mourning Syndrome’ 1 n
Traherne, J. E. 1 n
trawling 1, 2, 3, 4
Trieste (bathyscaphe) 1
trilobites 1, 2
tripang (194), 1, 2
Tuan, Yi-fu 1n, 2
Tutankhamun 1, 2
Tyrrhenian Sea 1
Udintsev, Glebb 1 n, 2
UFOlogy 1
ultraviolet vision 1, 2
US Fish Commission 1
US Geological Survey (USGS) 1, 2, 3, 4
US National Marine Fisheries Service 1 n
Ussher, James, Archbishop 1
Utah, USS 1
utopias 1, 2
Vance, Jack 1
Vangoudy, Robert de 1
Vector, M/T 1
vent communities 1 n, 2, 3
Venter, E. L. 1
Vietnamese ‘boat people’ 1
Voltaire 1
Webster, W. H. B. 1, 2
Weddell, James 1
Wegener, Alfred 1, 2
Welwitschia mirabilis 1
Wheeler Field, Oahu 1
wild, the 1
wilderness 1
Woods Hole 1, 2, 3
Woolf, Virginia 1
Wreckers 1
Yakuza 1, 2
Yamamoto, Soji 1
year class 1
Yellow Underwing moth 1
zetetics 1
zoophytes 1, 2
About the Author
James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of Gerontius, winner of a Whitbread Prize; Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds; Playing With Water; and most recently, of the wild comic trilogy Cooking With Fernet Branca, Amazing Disgrace and Rancid Pansies.
Copyright
This ebook edition published in 2010
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© James Hamilton-Paterson, 1992, 1998
Preface © James Hamilton-Paterson, 2007
‘Sea Burial’ previously appeared in Granta 61, April 1998
The right of James Hamilton-Paterson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988