Oceans: Exploring the Hidden Depths of the Underwater World
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520260287 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Around the world, under the sea This book is a companion to the BBC series of the same title (It has not been shown on U.S. television; not sure why?) The premise of this 21st century expedition reminded me of the premise of the 1996 Ivan Tors motion picture, "Around the World, Under the Sea". Adventurers, including a famous Cousteau, plus a very sexy female marine biologist comprise the "crew". The book is chock full of beautiful photographs and information. If you love the sea, diving, or even deep-sea fishing, it is good reading for young and old.. "I found this review from The Times on the internet in 2008. 5 stars for the review zero for the book." according to Mervyn techie Wreckie. When the rough cut for the first episode of Oceans dropped into the commissioning editor's DVD player, he must have cried the Pacific. It is titanic, sink-with-all-hands television and was spectacular in its empty nothingness. They must have shot an albatross on day one. This is a big, expensive co-production that has come back with film that looks like a second-marriage honeymoon from the Red Sea. The bar for underwater nature has been set pretty high by The Blue Planet and that mermaid lady who holds her breath and frots dolphins. Failing to get any aquatic film of interesting fish, they decided. Paul Rose is awesome Davo I'm very disappointed - there's not nearly enough photo's of Paul Rose in this book.How about some more photo's, like "Paul Rose looking in the mirror", or "Paul Rose posing for the camera", or even "Paul Rose looking at his picture in this book", or the ultimate "A front and side view of Paul Rose, to enable you to identify him on the street and worship him as the God-amongst-men that he truly is, and not mistake him for some other smelly little nonentity".But constructive criticism aside, if you are scanning the horizon for a truly astounding book on the world's oceans, buy "The Illustrated Ency
The oceans are the single most important feature of our planet. For Oceans, explorer Paul Rose and his team of expert divers filmed fluorescence in Red Sea corals for the very first time and explored the undisturbed waters of the Black Hole off the Bahamas. They witnessed rarely seen behavior in sperm whales in the Sea of Cortez and discovered a potentially unknown species below the arctic ice pack. They shape our climate, our culture, and our future. Yet their depths have remained a mysterious and unchartered expanse. This book, which accompanies a major BBC television series, draws on the most exciting stories from the fields of subaquatic archaeology, geology, marine biology, and anthropology to reveal an astonishing landscape of forgotten shipwrecks, submerged volcanoes, and hidden caves. Beautifully illustrated with more than 160 color photographs, Oceans unravels the mysteries of the deep and provides illuminating insights into this vast undersea domain."It is my sincere hope that this work will make more urgent the chorus of voices crying out to save the oceans."—From the foreword, by Philippe CousteauCopub: BBC . Undertaking thrilling and often dangerous dives, Rose and his team reveal the importance of the oceans to human existence—and at the same time trace the possible consequences of climate change on their delicate balance
The light tone and lack of a bibliography and further reading suggestions don't recommend this for academic libraries, but abundant beautiful photographs and extensive, well-written text will make this a good addition to public libraries (willing to deal with its large size, 29 × 23 cm) where there is interest in diving or the oceans.—Margaret Rioux, MBL/WHOI Lib., Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., MA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The emphasis here is on the team's experiences, rather than on the science in which they might be engaged, as they explore their filming locat