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Here is an exciting and informative guide to the natural history, geology, and exploration of the world's vast oceans. Superb, color photographs of incredible submersibles, realistic models of the sea floor, and the remarkable animals and plants that make up marine life offer a unique "eyewitness" view of the ocean's hidden wealth. See a sea spider crawling on the ocean floor, ocean research vessels in operation, a cuttlefish disappear in a squirt of ink, inside a decompression chamber, and an octopus escaping a predator by jet propulsion. Learn how a monitoring buoy measure temperature,…

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Editions

8 editions · 3 languages
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    Dorling Kindersley Limited · 9780756643546
  • Other · English · 2008
    DK Pub. · 72 pages · 9780756637767
  • Other · English · 2004
    DK Pub. · 72 pages · 9780756607104
  • Other · English · 2000
    Dorling Kindersley · 63 pages · 9780789466112
  • Other · English · 1995
    Dorling Kindersley · 64 pages · 9780751360561
  • Other · English · 1995
    A.A. Knopf · 63 pages · 9780679873310
Juvenile literatureOceanMarine animalsOcéanoLiteratura juvenilGeographyNatureNonfiction