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By G. K. HOD ENFIELD -
ARLINGTON, Va.„(AP) - To
Vio Adift. C. B. Momsen all this
emphaaii on space is a little bit
ridiculous. - Man's future, he in-
sists, is right on this- planet—in
and below the ocean.
The retired admiral, who has
studied the sea for years, can
foresee the day when:
Submarines carrying hundreds
of passengers will speed from the
United States to Europe at 225
miles per hour, quietly, cheaply,
safely.
Cargo subs will cross the top
ot the world under the North Pole
at 70 miles per hour. Behind them
will tfail a mile-long chain of
sausage-like rubber containers
filled with 12 million gallons of
oil.
Fish farms in the ocean depths
will supply the bulk of the world's
food
The force of the ocean's tides,
currents and waves will be con-
verted into electricity in giant un-
derwater power plants.
Submarine "mining camps" will
sweep the ocean floor, harvesting
a fabulous wealth of minerals. Ex-
tracting plants will process the
limitless acres of sea water for
gold, oopper, magnesium and doz-
ens of outer essential elements.
Vaet reservoirs of oil and n t-
ural gas beneath the ocean floor
will be tapped.
Sea water will be converted to
fresh water, pumped inland, and
used to transform vaet desert re-
gions into garden spots.
Science fiction? Not at all All
these things ere feasible, says the
admiral, and will come about just
n soon as man is willing to put
forth the time, money and effort.
The oceans, their power and
their resources are Mom sen's
business, and have been for 36
yrawi
He was graduated from the U.S.
Naval Academy in 1919, and two
years later went into the subma-
rine aervice. He stayed with the
underwater ships until his retire-
ment in 1999. Since then he has
served as a consultant to a num-
ber of U.S, firms interested in
underwater travel or resources.
If his name eounds familiar', it's
probably because he gave it* to
the famed "Momsen Lung," which
he helped develop as an individual
escape apparatus for men trapped
in' sunken submarines. The device
is still in use today by navies all
over the world. He,also had a
big hand in developing the diving
bell which saved the lives of 33
men trapped in the submarine
"Squalus" off Portsmouth, N.H.,
in 1939.
When the atomic-powered Nau-
tilus sailed under the North Pole
last August, broad new vistai
were opened in the field of under-
water commerce.
Here was a route that would
cut nearly 5,000 miles off the
11,200-mile Journey from London to
Totyo. Here was a possible new
way to carry oil from the fields
on Canada's Hudson Bay to the
factories of Europe and America.
U.S. Rubber, one of the firms
for which Momsen is a consultant,
has been developing rubber con-
tainers for the transport of liquids
for more than 15 years. The. com-
pany visualizes the day when car-
goes will be hauled around the
world by submarines towing a se-
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ries of containers, 20 feet in di-
ameter and 400 feet long. Each
container would hold a million
gallons, and each submarine could
haul a chain of them 5,000 feet
long.
There are about 75 different
liquids—acids, oils and alcohols—
that could be transported this
way, plus a great variety of such
items as dry lime, grains, fertil-
izers.'-
The top speed of the U.S. atom-
ic-powered submarines is still a
military secret, although it has
been announced as being in excess
of 20 knots (about 23 miles per
hour).
Now in the process of develop-
ment, says Momsen, is a plastic-
type coating designed to cut down
(the drag which any ship encoun-
ters in going through the water.
Submarine speeds of 70 miles per
hour will be entirely possible, he
sitys. That is more than twice the
speed of the S.S. United States,
the world's faitest ocean liner.
"But" that's not the limit, by
far," the admiral declares. "This
ooating, plus expected improve-
ments in poWer plants, can boost
the speed of submarines up to 225
miles per hour."
"Passenger subs could operate
ori definite schedules. The wildest
surface storms couldn't wash out
the trip. A traveler could journey
from New York to London and
not know about a North Atlantic
storm until he read about it in a
newspaper." o
Passenger and cargo-towing sub-
marines aren't on the drawing
•board now, and won't be until
there is a demand for them. That
demand, Momsen believes, will
oome first from the military. And
he notes with satisfaction the in-
creased interest sinoe the devel-
opment of the Polaris missile,
which can be fired from a sub-
merged submarine.
Momsen is the, first to concede
that catgo-towing submarines may
not be economically practical
right now. But he makes this
point:
"In World War II. 14 million
tons of Allied shipping were sunk
in (he Atlantic, 9 million tons more
in the Pacific. If we could have
built the cargo nibs then, they
would have been economically
practical because they would have
been necessary.
"How badly you need something
determines whether you can af-
ford it."
The same holds true for the
vast riches of the sea, the ad-
miral say*.
"We know that in every cubic
mile of sea water there are ap-
proximately 20 million tons of
minerals—including 90 million dol-
lars worth of gold and 400 tons of
magnesium. And we know there
are more than 300 million cubic
miles of this sea water."
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.)., Vol. 56, No. 84, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 8, 1959, newspaper, April 8, 1959; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330511/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.