Product Description

This informative text described how oceanography has developed as a science, and summarizes what is now known about the deep ocean environments and the organisms that populate them. It highlights the potentially vast species diversity and provides a view of this mysterious environment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #587144 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

The Open University Sciences
This is a really wonderful little book. Even the sea-cucumbers enthrall. Buy this book; you won't be disappointed.

Scuba World
'...a perfect overview of this still very much unchartered world.'

Ocean Challenge
'...you won't be disappointed.'

Customer Reviews

A superb book that opened my eyes to an alien world
A thouroughly absorbing read that unfortunately was over far too quickly. I've always been curious about what lies at the bottom of our oceans and this book presented me with the answers I'd wanted. It's written in a very easy to read style that anyone could understand and covers each of the vertical zones that make up our oceans. It made me realise how little we really know about the depths of our oceans. The book is filled with superb photography of some very strange creatures, some from enormous depths underwater. It just made me wonder how these creatures can survive in absolute darkness, immense pressures and near freezing temperatures, an environment totally alien to anything we normally encounter. The book goes on to try to explain the food chain of the deep ocean. Lots of suprising information. I'd recommend this book to anyone who has even a passing interest in the oceans. I just wish the book had been a little longer but as it was from the cover picture of a rat-tail fish at a depth of 16400 ft to the final line of text I was enthralled and filled with wonder.