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In Oceans Deep : Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves by Bill Streever is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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In this masterful account in the spirit of Bill Bryson and Ian Frazier, a longtime deep-sea diver masterfully weaves together the science and history of Earth's last remaining frontier: the sea. In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty, and inspiration. 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 300 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 trailblazing men who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at pressures sufficient to trigger insanity. Tracing both the little-known history and 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

Who reads In Oceans Deep : Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves?

Author

Bill Streever

Publisher

Little Brown & Company; Little, Brown and Company

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316551359

Category

science

Subjects

Science, History, Nature

Rating

4.6 / 5 (145 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14