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Full Fathom 5000 - The Expedition of the HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea (Hardcover)
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Full Fathom 5000 - The Expedition of the HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea (Hardcover)
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The deep sea covers more than half the surface of the Earth, but
until the circumnavigation made by the HMS Challenger almost
nothing was known about the animals that live there. Full Fathom
5000 gives an account of the remarkable discoveries that were made
during the voyage and describes the strange and bizarre creatures
that live in perpetual darkness a kilometer or more below the
surface of the sea. Until the early 1870s, very little was known
about the creatures lurking in the depths of our oceans. People had
found a few things trapped in fishing gear or caught on the anchors
of ships, but those who tried to venture to the bottom of the
seafloor often died before they made it there. The first systematic
investigation into life in our oceans was made during the
circumnavigation of the HMS Challenger. Scientists credit this
voyage as the beginning of modern oceanography, and the story of it
is full of twists and turns. It led to the discovery of a whole new
fauna previously unknown, which Full Fathom 5000 describes for the
first time in one place for readers. In this book, Graham Bell
takes readers through the voyage station by station, following the
progress of the expedition and introducing some of the new and
strange animals that were hauled up from the depths of the ocean
and seen by human eyes for the first time. You will meet, among
others, the ugliest fish in the world, flesh-eating clams, dwarf
males, sea devils, and an octopus that wears lipstick. The book
begins with a description of the first attempts scientists made to
explore the deep sea, leading up to the plan for a voyage around
the world on the HMS Challenger. The chapters take readers from
station to station, though all of the world's oceans, visiting
every continent and crossing the Equator five times. Bell details
what was discovered during hundreds of stops to take samples, and
he describes around a hundred stations where remarkable animals
were hauled from the sea. The book ends with a description of what
came after the end of this journey, explaining what they did with
the animals that were collected and what became of the scientists
and sailors who planned the voyage and traveled together around the
world.
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