Carte Frontier Below Jeff Maynard

Frontier Below

The 2000 Year Quest to Go Deeper Underwater and How it Impacts Our Future

Autor: Jeff Maynard
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2023
Pagini
304
EAN
9780008532734
ISBN
0008532737
Enbook ID
38879843
Greutate
270
Dimensiuni
153 x 234 x 19

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Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet.We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two thirds of our planet. We only see the entrance to it. Beyond that entrance is a world hostile to humans, yet critical to our survival. The first divers to enter that world held their breath and splashed beneath the surface, often clutching rocks to pull them down. Over centuries, they invented wooden diving bells, clumsy diving suits, and unwieldy contraptions in attempts to go deeper and stay longer. But each advance was fraught with danger, as the intruders had to survive the crushing weight of water, or the deadly physiological effects of breathing compressed air. The vertical odyssey continued when explorers squeezed into heavy steel balls dangling on cables, or slung beneath floats filled with flammable gasoline. Plunging into the narrow trenches between the tectonic plates of the Earth’s crust, they eventually reached the bottom of the ocean in the same decade that men first walked on the moon.Today, as nations scramble to exploit the resources of the ocean floor, The Frontier Below recalls a story of human endeavour that took 2,000 years to travel seven miles, then investigates how we will explore the ocean in the future.Meticulously researched and drawing extensively on unpublished sources and personal interviews, The Frontier Below is the untold story of the pioneers who had the right stuff, but were forgotten because they went in the wrong direction.

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