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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English

IN OCEANS DEEP

Bill Streever

Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves

A thrilling exploration of the science and history of the deep sea.

Full of mystery and danger, the deep sea has long been a symbol of the great unknown. In this dramatic and thrilling account, acclaimed biologist and deep sea diver Bill Streever shows us the incredible adventures happening in earth's almost incomprehensibly vast oceans.

From the bottom of the Challenger Deep (the deepest known point in the ocean), to the earliest submarine technologies and exploratory deep dives, into the world of competitive breath-hold divers and the riskiest thrill seekers on the planet, In Oceans Deep is a human history, and a natural history of the earth's last true frontier. With treasure ship wrecks, the echoing pings of trapped submariners, and the vast expanse of otherworldly robots and oil rigs that dominate the oceanic landscape, In Oceans Deep is a rare and fascinating trip to the wild, strange, night-dark place that lies beneath the waves.

Bill Streever is the bestselling and award-winning authors of And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind, Cold, and Heat. As a biologist, he has worked on issues ranging from climate change to the restoration of Arctic tundra to underwater noise to the evolution of cave crayfish. With his wife and co-captain, he splits his time between Alaska and their cruising sailboat, currently in Central America.

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Book Published 2019-07-02 by Little, Brown
Book Published 2019-07-02 by Little, Brown

Comments

Bill Streever has written a gripping and important book about the sea, its science, and the technologies we've invented to begin to experience it, but also about our own humanity - and our future. I loved following him on this extraordinary deep dive into the largest and still most mysterious realm of this incredible planet we all share.

The oceans and seas have called to us for eons, they are in our DNA, but they can be more mysterious than outer space. In Oceans Deep is that rarest gift, a beautifully written and thrilling exploration of humanity's place in the depths by a master interpreter who has spent a lifetime face-to-face with the shipwrecks, animals, machines, daring souls, and enduring mysteries that populate this gorgeous, hidden world.

Mr. Streever's book is subtitled "Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves," and that's an accurate description of his survey of envelope-pushing initiatives to investigate the 71% of our planet that is submerged and eternally beckoning. If you read it back to back with Jill Heinerth's Into the Planet, you're in for a memorable underwater double feature. Mr. Streever's writing is lucid on subjects ranging from gas chemistry to dredging to underwater robotics, though it's best when it's most candid. A broad-spectrum examination of underwater adventuring from the first submarine voyage in the Thames River in 1620 to autonomous subsea robots and next-generation research on the possibility of augmenting a diver's blood with oxygen-storing nanoparticles. Read more...

Bill Streever takes us on an entertaining and richly informative journey into the marine frontier. I recommend this book to anyone who may wish to be awed, and perhaps disturbed, by the depths to which humans will go to explore it.

The ocean's deepest trenches are no farther from the surface than a jog around Central Park, yet we know almost nothing about them. Streever, an accomplished diver in his own right, follows the history and risks of going deep, from the earliest attempts hundreds of years ago to free-diving, helmet-diving, SCUBA, submarines, and robots. He straps himself into a submersible and peers through a tiny viewport 1500 feet below the coast of Honduras; flies an underwater drone down a Bahamian blue hole, and explains how humans struggle to breathe in that cold, dark, highly pressurized realm. Exquisitely researched and written, I highly recommend In Oceans Deep.