TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rozwadowski,Helen M.
AU  - Earle,Sylvia
TI  - Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea
SN  - 9780674042940
AV  - GC65 
U1  - 551.46 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Underwater exploration
KW  - Ocean bottom-Research
KW  - Oceanography-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle -- 1 Fathoming the Fathomless -- 2 The Undiscovered Country -- 3 Soundings -- 4 A Sea Breeze -- 5 Dredging the Moon -- 6 Small World -- 7 Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - By the middle of the 19th century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed--of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction--is the story that unfolds in this book
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