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Investigates colossal ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100 feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories; waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a number of ships have vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something was brewing in the planet's waters. They found...
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A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In recent decades we've learned more about the ocean than in all previous human history combined. But, even as our knowledge has exploded, so too has our...
4) Oceans
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Creative Education
Pub. Date
2016.
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24 pages cm.
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"A kindergarten-level introduction to oceans, covering their climate, plant and animal life, and such defining features as their salty water"--
5) Ocean life
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Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
2008
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1 DVD (ca. 26 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bill Nye, the Science Guy goes underwater to talk about ocean ecosystems and the importance of small organisms such as coral, kelp and plankton. Amazingly, these latter organisms are the food of huge whales, which gather them by straining thousands of tons of sea water through their mouths.
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2010
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xiii, 319 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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Presents a collection of essays by leading experts examining the current condition of the world's oceans and their inhabitants and emphasizing the need to preserve them from the threat of pollution, overfishing, dead zones, and global warming.
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"In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks...
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Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
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Answers questions about the ocean, including how water gets to the ocean, what causes waves, and how rubber duckies helped ocean scientists learn more about how the ocean's waters move.
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Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 DVD (49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tells the story of a team of high school students taking part in the International Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition that chellanges participants to advance deep sea technologies for autonomous ocean exploration.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
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266 pages ; 24 cm
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"While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious abilities inspired Nestor to seek out the secrets of this little-known discipline. In Deep, Nestor embeds with a gang of extreme athletes and renegade researchers who are transforming...
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