卫星、数字计算机、微电于技术、声响系统在科学家面前展现出更宏伟的前景。二百多年来,海洋学一直是少数科学家们的王国。他们只带些有塞瓶、温度计、标本桶便出海去探索世界洋流的浩瀚漩涡了。如今,海洋学正在迅速成为一门“重要科学”,它拥有巨额财政预算、研究团体和国际联合科研项目。 Satellites, digital computers, microelectronics in technology, and sound systems are presenting scientists with more ambitious prospects. For more than two hundred years Oceanography has been the kingdom of a few scientists. They only brought some bottles, thermometers and specimen buckets to explore the vast whirlpool of ocean currents in the world. Nowadays, oceanography is rapidly becoming an “important science,” with a huge budget, research groups and joint international research projects.