He took a military leave in 1943 to serve in the U.S. Navy and returned to WHOI in 1946 as a hydrographic technician working to describe Gulf Stream meanders and ring formation.
His research attributions include disproval of the existence of the American Scout seamount,[4] measurements of deep currents in the western North Atlantic,[5] oceanographic measurements of the Caribbean Sea,[6] measurements of vertical water movement in the Cayman Basin,[7] confirming the existence of deep currents in the Labrador Sea,[8] confirming the existence of large cyclonic rings from the northeast Sargasso Sea,[9] a census of Gulf Stream rings,[10] and a census on the water masses of the world ocean.
The 860 page collection’s publication was paid for by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Paracandacia worthingtoni, found at that time only in the South Pacific, was described by biologist George Grice in the Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan in 1981.
[13] The classification was changed to follow the accepted genus and therefore became Candacia worthingtoni[14] Worthington died on February 10, 1995, in the Abaco, Bahamas at the age of 74.