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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating. Streever celebrates the daring pioneers who tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water as he traces both the little-known history and exciting future of how we travel and study the depths. He covers seventeenth-century leather-hulled submarines, their nuclear-powered descendants, and robots capable of roving unsupervised...
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
Saltwater crocodile: A giant saltwater crocodile wanders into freezing waters so the Octonauts try to return the predator to its warm water home -- Decorator crab: When important objects go missing from their ship, the Octonauts stake out the thief who turns out to be a decorator crab, stealing their things to decorate his shell -- Giant spider crab: Kwazii is frightened when he spots a giant underwater spider, but it turns out to be a very old spider...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Join the Octonauts as they embark on not one, not two, but twelve rescue missions! From attempting to dive deep into the abyssal zone, to encountering a school of toothy barracudas, to Barnacles seeking guidance from a mysterious sea turtle--it's time to sound the Octo-alert!
126) Galapagos
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Share in the discovery of new species when scientists take a submersible 3,000 feet beneath the Galapagos.
127) This is the reef
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
This is a celebration of the Great Barrier Reef and the significance it has on the marine life forms that it feeds, sheltures and protects. Written in beautifully crafted poetic prose, this is the perfect introduction to a beautiful and fragile marine wilderness.
129) Young Captain Nemo
Author
Series
Young Captain Nemo volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Seventh-grader Gabriel Nemo, the famous Captain Nemo's descendant, and his friends Peter and Misty save sinking ships, face mutant sea creatures, and more while eluding the Navy and Peter and Misty's parents."--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
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 ... On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental diving suit that took her to a depth of eight hundred feet, she turned off the suit's lights and witnessed breathtaking explosions...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Alvin Submersible, a deep-sea vessel that can sink miles below the surface, takes readers on a tour of the ocean floor where they will explore underwater volcanoes, discover lost hydrogen bombs, hear about storied shipwrecks and meet hundreds of new species living far beneath the waves.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Using 3-D computer illustrations that present a level of detail you simply can't find elsewhere, this book takes you on a world tour of the waters that cover 70 percent of our planet. You will see the fish, invertebrates, and other animals that call the ocean home and learn how their anatomy and behavior is adapted to deal with a watery habitat. You can discover what survives in the frozen Arctic Ocean, as well as see coral reefs teeming with life....
133) Undersea archaeology
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988
Description
Discusses the use of new technology in efforts to retrieve artifacts from the ocean floor, the exploration of shipwrecks such as the Vasa, Mary Rose, and Titanic, and the recovery of the Challenger spacecraft.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Appears on list
Description
A gorgeously illustrated reference book with exactly 1000 things that are found in our oceans, from colorful fish and coral reefs to submarines and shipwrecks. Every picture is labelled with its name, and there's an index of all the names at the back of the book. A wonderful way to discover the wildlife and ecology of different ocean habitats.
136) Contact/ Sphere
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Contact: Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
Sphere: Officials find a spaceship that plunged into the Pacific 300 years ago.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Dr. Robert Ballard leads a team of experts and four World War II veterans to Midway Island where the U.S. and Japan fought one of the fiercest battles of the war. They're in a race against time to find at least one of the downed aircraft carriers including the U.S.S. Yorktown.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"What would it be like to live sixty feet below the ocean waves? Author Ken Mallory and photographer Brian Skerry found out. They spent a week in the Aquarius underwater laboratory on a coral reef off the Florida Keys. They lived in cramped quarters. They went scuba diving every day to study the fish of the reef and to use the underwater outhouse. They slept in bunks with the constant crackle of snapping shrimp coming through the shell of their underwater...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Seen from space, Earth is a swirl of blue and white. The blue is Earth's oceans, which cover 70 percent of its surface. Yet the ocean is the most unexplored region of our planet. From Shore to Ocean Floor is the story of how humans went from building the first boats to discovering the secrets of the deep. Marvel at incredible scientific discoveries, be dazzled by some of the most exciting new species, and admire the incredible people who took the...
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