02860nam 22007215 450 991077816170332120210108103008.00-674-26688-90-674-04294-810.4159/9780674042940(CKB)1000000000787011(EBL)3300071(SSID)ssj0000153726(PQKBManifestationID)11152440(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153726(PQKBWorkID)10405452(PQKB)10604437(DE-B1597)457751(OCoLC)1049618696(OCoLC)1054879496(OCoLC)979742733(DE-B1597)9780674042940(MiAaPQ)EBC3300071(MiAaPQ)EBC7186202(Au-PeEL)EBL7186202(EXLCZ)99100000000078701120190708d2009 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrFathoming the Ocean The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea /Helen M ROZWADOWSKICambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]©20051 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-674-02756-6 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle -- Chapter One. Fathoming the Fathomless -- Chapter Two. The Undiscovered Country -- Chapter Three. Soundings -- Chapter Four. A Sea Breeze -- Chapter Five. Dredging the Moon -- Chapter Six. Small World -- Epilogue -- Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- IndexBy the middle of the nineteenth 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 Fathoming the Ocean.Electronic books. -- localOcean bottom -- ResearchOceanography -- HistoryUnderwater explorationUnderwater explorationResearchOcean bottomHistoryOceanographyElectronic books. -- local.Ocean bottom -- Research.Oceanography -- History.Underwater exploration.Underwater explorationResearchOcean bottomHistoryOceanography551.46NU 1500rvkROZWADOWSKI Helen M, 1014523DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910778161703321Fathoming the ocean2364464UNINA