02793nam 2200709Ia 450 991095797010332120200520144314.0978067426688906742668899780674042940067404294810.4159/9780674042940(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(OCoLC)568023320(Perlego)1146931(EXLCZ)99100000000078701120040804e20082005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFathoming the ocean the discovery and exploration of the deep sea /Helen M. Rozwadowski1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press2008, c20051 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780674027565 0674027566 Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-262) and index.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.Underwater explorationOcean bottomResearchOceanographyHistoryUnderwater exploration.Ocean bottomResearch.OceanographyHistory.551.46NU 1500rvkRozwadowski Helen M1014523MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957970103321Fathoming the ocean2364464UNINA