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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Bill Bryson and Ian Frazier comes this fascinating examination of our past, present, and future beneath the waves. In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty, and inspiration. Bill Streever--a longtime deep-sea diver himself--has masterfully woven together the science and history of Earth's last remaining frontier: the sea. In...
83) Polar shift
Author
Series
Kurt Austin adventures volume 6
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
An anti-globalization activist learns how to artificially trigger a polar shift. He plans to use the event to jolt industrialized nations into corrective action. Unfortunately, unless NUMA Special Assignment Team can stop him, his "wake-up call" could annihilate the entire population of the world.
86) Vostok
Author
Publisher
Next Century Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct...
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Join the Octonauts as they journey to Antartica to prevent a group of penguins from falling into an ice chasm. Come along with Captain Barnacles as he teams up with his niece and nephew, Ursa and Orson, to rescue walrus pups. And when the Octonauts explore a hidden lake sealed by ice for millions of years, Shellington discovers microscopic creatures still living under the ice.
90) Ocean odyssey
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Blending state-of-the-art digital graphics with real footage, Ocean Odyssey is a breathtaking underwater adventure that fully immerses you in the beauty and dangers of the deep.
91) Dive Bermuda
Series
Publisher
International Video Projects Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Explores the coral reefs and underwater shipwrecks off the coasts of Bermuda.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An anti-globalization group plans to give the worlds industrial nations a jolt by using an artificially triggered "polar shift." But the scheme goes awry when the shift cannot be reversed and the NUMA Special Assignments Team is called into action. Available in a Premium Edition.
94) Under the sea
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Transports you to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea, and others in the Indo-Pacific region and allows you to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Includes fourteen of the best episodes focused on Cousteau's river adventures, including Danube: Charlemagne's Dream, Mississippi: Friendly Foe, Blueprint for Amazonia, and Journey to a Thousand Rivers. Ideal for the river lover and adventurous traveler!
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the 1934 dive of a bathysphere, or "sphere of the deep, " in which two explorers, William Beebe and Otia Barton, set the world depth record and saw mysterious creatures of the deep ocean.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic bioluminescence, a scientific frontier in our last earthly one, and with little promise of funding or employment she took a leap into the darkness. On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental...