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Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement
She wrote pamphlets on conservation and natural resources and edited scientific articles, but in her free time turned her government research into lyric prose, first as an article "Undersea" (1937, for the Atlantic Monthly), and then in a book, Under the Sea-wind (1941). In 1952 she published her prize-winning study of the ocean, The Sea Around Us , which was followed by The Edge of the Sea in 1955. These books constituted a biography of the ocean and made Carson famous as a naturalist and science writer for the public. Carson resigned from government service in 1952 to devote herself to her writing.
The Rachel Carson Scuba Park offers an easy dive for beginners and experienced divers alike. The main attraction of the park is a World War II era TBF Avenger Torpedo Bomber that crashed in the lake during a training mission in 1943. (Photo at left shows the cockpit; see below for engine photo). The pilot, who was attempting to land on either the Wolverine or the Sable, missed the flight deck and belly-flopped into the lake. He was rescued, but his plane sank in 40 feet of water about a mile and half northeast of the 68th Street pumping crib.
In a television interview, Carson once stated that "man's endeavors to control nature by his powers to alter and to destroy would inevitably evolve into a war against himself, a war he would lose unless he came to terms with nature." She died from cancer in 1964 at the age of 57. The Fish and Wildlife Service named one of its refuges near Carson's summer home on the coast of Maine as the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in 1969 to honor the memory of this extraordinary woman.
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