The deep oceans are the last great frontier remaining on Earth.
Humans have conquered the vast wilderness of the terrestrial
surface, from the searing deserts and dark forests of the tropics
to the icy polar regions. Today, anyone with enough ambition and
money can travel upriver into the heart of the Borneo jungle, climb
Mount Everest, or spend the night at the South Pole. But the oceans
beyond the continental shelves remain forbidding, beyond the reach
of science, adventurism, and commerce.
Not long ago, scientists viewed the ocean floor as a vast,
featureless plain, an ancient repository of detritus eroded from
the surface of an unchanging Earth. Light never reached the
seemingly lifeless depths. The ocean basins were only of marginal
scholarly interest. This all changed with the Herculean quest to
discover what lay on the world's ocean floor -- a quest that
inspired the continental drift-plate tectonics revolution and
overturned prevailing scientific notions of how the Earth's surface
was created, rearranged, and destroyed.
Upheaval from the Abyss spans a 130-year period, beginning with
the early, backbreaking efforts to map the depths during the age of
sail; continuing with improvements in research methods spurred by
maritime disaster and war; and culminating in the publication of
the first map of the world's ocean floor in 1977. David M. Lawrence
brings this tale to life by weaving through it the personalities of
the scientists-explorers who struggled to see the face of the deep,
and reveals not only the facts of how the ocean floor was mapped,
but also the human dimensions of what the scientists experienced
and felt while in the process.
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