Title from container. "HD." "Light." "Blackstone Publishing." Read by Jay Snyder. Previously released by Hachette Audio, ℗2019. Release date supplied by publisher. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Summary:
"In Oceans Deep celebrates the daring pioneers who tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water: free divers able to reach three hundred feet on a single breath, engineers and scientists who uncovered the secrets of decompression, teenagers who built their own diving gear from discarded boilers and garden hoses in the 1930s, saturation divers who lived under water for weeks at a time in the 1960s, and the trailblazers who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at pressures sufficient to trigger insanity. Tracing both the little-known history and the exciting future of how we travel and study the depths, Streever's captivating journey includes seventeenth-century leather-hulled submarines, their nuclear-powered descendants, a workshop where luxury submersibles are built for billionaire clients, and robots capable of roving unsupervised between continents, revolutionizing access to the ocean. In this far-flung trip to the wild, night-dark place of shipwrecks, trapped submariners, oil wells, innovative technologies, and people willing to risk their lives while challenging the deep, we begin to realize all the adventures our seas have to offer -- and why they are in such dire need of conservation."-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.