Summary of Catherine Musemeche's Lethal Tides

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#1 In December 1941, marine biologist Mary Sears was sent to Peru to help save the country’s guano industry, which was threatened by a lack of birds to eat the fish that made up its primary source of income.

#2 In December 1941, marine biologist Mary Sears was sent to Peru to help save the country’s guano industry, which was threatened by a lack of birds to eat the fish that made up its primary source of income. She was a planktonologist, but she had never gone on an expedition.

#3 Mary Sears was a planktonologist who was sent to Peru in December 1941 to help save the country’s guano industry, which was threatened by a lack of birds to eat the fish that made up its primary source of income. She was unable to collect any specimens because the men on the boat did not want to let her go to sea.

#4 In December 1941, marine biologist Mary Sears was sent to Peru to help save the country’s guano industry, which was threatened by a lack of birds to eat the fish that made up its primary source of income. The prohibition on women sailing on oceanographic vessels grew out of ancient taboos that originated in myths and legends.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350001402

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#1

Marine biologist Mary Sears, working in the warm waters off the western coast of South America in Pisco Bay, Peru, in 1941, collected samples of the tiniest of organisms. She collected them and marked the date and location on each one, completely immersed in the research that had brought her to this foreign land.

#2

The El Niño was affecting the lower chain of the ocean food supply, and Vogt knew that plankton feeds off of anchovies, an indicator species that serves as a measure of the health of marine life. He knew that anchovies feed off of plankton, and he wondered if the El Niño could be affecting the lower chain of the ocean food supply.

#3

The exclusion of women from marine science was strange during the 1930s, but Sears was fortunate to have landed any job at all. She was trapped in an immutable time warp that cruelly capped her potential as a scientist.

#4

The all-male domain at sea existed for hundreds of years, and was perpetuated by the fact that a female body carved into the bow of a ship would bring good luck on a voyage. But not every woman was willing to adhere to this absurd restriction. In the 1600s, botanist Jeanne Baret went to sea disguised as a man on a French ship.

#5

The sexist restrictions at Woods Hole were finally eradicated in 1959 when oceanographer Betty Bunce was awarded funding for an expedition. She was the first woman to lead an expedition, and the first female chief scientist in the Deep Sea Drilling Project.

#6

In 1941, Sears was invited to go to Peru to help with the research, but she declined because of the risks. She was eventually on board the Peruvian trawler Don Jaime, scooping plankton out of Pisco Bay, harvesting anchovies and performing autopsies on 3,500 fish to assess their stomach contents.

#7

Sears was a woman who had very little experience with the ocean, but she was willing to adapt to the conditions on