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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Streever, Bill, author.     Subjects     Oceanography.     Underwater physiology.     Deep diving -- History.     Underwater exploration -- History.     Submarines (Ships) -- History.     Submersibles -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Streever, Bill, author.       by title:      In oceans deep : cou...         MARC Display

In oceans deep : courage, innovation, and adventure beneath the waves / Bill Streever. by Streever, Bill, author. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. Subjects Oceanography.   Underwater physiology.   Deep diving -- History.   Underwater exploration -- History.   Submarines (Ships) -- History.   Submersibles -- History. ISBN:  9780316551311 (hardcover) : 0316551317 (hardcover) Description:  xi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Descent -- On a breath -- Under pressure -- Saturated -- Submerged -- The robots -- An ocean in need. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 Oceans Deep celebrates the daring pioneers who tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water: free divers able to reach 300 feet on a single breath; engineers and scientists who uncovered the secrets of decompression; teenagers who built their own diving gear from discarded boilers and garden hoses in the 1930s; saturation divers who lived under water for weeks at a time in the 1960s; and the trailblazing men who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at pressures sufficient to trigger insanity. Tracing both the little-known history and exciting future of how we travel and study the depths, Streever's captivating journey includes seventeenth-century leather-hulled submarines, their nuclear-powered descendants, a workshop where luxury submersibles are built for billionaire clients, and robots capable of roving unsupervised between continents, revolutionizing access to the ocean. In this far-flung trip to the wild, night-dark place of shipwrecks, trapped submariners, oil wells, innovative technologies, and people willing to risk their lives while challenging the deep, we discover all the adventures our seas have to offer-and why they are in such dire need of conservation."--Dust jacket. 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 between continents. Discover all the adventures our seas have to offer-- and why they are in such dire need of conservation. -- adapted from jacket   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 551.46 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 551.46 Streever Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 551.46 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 551.46 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 551.46 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahala P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 551.46 Streever Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 551.46 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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