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Expedition Deep Ocean - The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans (Hardcover)
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Expedition Deep Ocean - The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans (Hardcover)
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The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the
bottom of all five of the world's oceans - the ultimate frontier of
our planet. Humankind has explored every continent on earth,
climbed its tallest mountains, and gone into space. But the largest
areas of our planet remain a mystery: the deep oceans. At over
36,000 feet deep, these areas closest to earth's core have remained
nearly impossible to reach-until now. Technological innovations,
engineering breakthroughs and the derring-do of a unique team of
engineers and scientists, led by explorer Victor Vescovo, brought
together an audacious global quest to dive to the deepest points of
all five oceans for the first time in history. Expedition Deep
Ocean tells the inside story of this exploration of one of the most
unforgiving and mysterious places on our planet, including the site
of the Titanic wreck and the little-understood Hadal Zone. The
expedition pushed technology to the limits, mapped hidden
landscapes, discovered previously unknown life forms and began to
piece together how life in the deep oceans affects our planet-but
it was far from easy. Vescovo and his team would design the most
advanced deep-diving submersible ever built, able to withstand the
deep ocean's pressure on the sub of 8 tons per square inch-the
equivalent of having 292 fueled and fully loaded 747s stacked on
top of it. The hurricane-laden ocean waters and the byzantine web
of global oceanographic politics only heightened the challenges.
Expedition Deep Ocean reveals the marvelous and other-worldly life
found in the ocean's five deepest trenches, including several new
species that have posed as of yet unanswered questions about
survival and migration between oceans. Then there are the newly
discovered sea mounts that cause tsunamis when they are broken by
shifting tectonic plates and jammed back into the earth's crust,
something that can now be studied to predict future disasters.
Filled with high drama, adventure and the thrill of discovery,
Expedition Deep Ocean celebrates courage and ingenuity and reveals
the majesty and importance of the deep ocean.
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