Sublime

INTRODUCTION

an alteration of ocean circulation patterns

For every dollar the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spends on ocean exploration and research, NASA gets a hundred and fifty. We lavish billions on the prospect of colonizing Mars, a barren dust ball. The ocean’s inner space is a harder sell, because humanity has the unfortunate habit of ignoring and fearing what it can’t see.

Yet another factor in the GN’s success in weathering the financial storm was Hill’s ability to open new markets and add new tonnages to his trains.

The next month, Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, taking out the island’s power grid, water system, and communications. It also exposed the parlous state of affairs in the United States’ largest remaining colony. Although Luis Muñoz Marín’s strategy of using tax loopholes to draw mainland corporations to the island had dramatically improved

Every now and then a whale composes a new hit, which other whales throughout the ocean adopt.

1 A muscular “tease”:

shores of Africa.