Seven-Tenths (42 page)

• 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
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  5
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  6
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  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
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  5
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  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
  ,
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  6
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  7
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  8
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  9
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  10
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  11
  
• Thomson, K. S.
  1
  n
  
• time, and the sea Ch. 4,
  passim
  ,
  1
  ,
  2
  
• Titanic
  , RMS
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
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  5
  ,
  6
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  7
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  8
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  9
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  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
  1
  n,
  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
  

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© James Hamilton-Paterson, 1992, 1998
Preface © James Hamilton-Paterson, 2007

‘Sea Burial’ previously appeared in
Granta
61, April 1998

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