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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean’s surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious abilities inspired Nestor to seek out the secrets of this little-known discipline. In Deep, Nestor embeds with a gang of extreme athletes and renegade researchers who are transforming...
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English
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Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men — John Chatterton and John Mattera — are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. At large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth century, Bannister should have been immortalized in the lore of the sea — his exploits more notorious than Blackbeard’s, more daring than Kidd’s....
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Publisher
North South
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When two unlikely friends build a vessel capable of taking them to the bottom of the ocean find a missing treasure--the truth turns out to be far more amazing"--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xix, 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 32 cm
Language
English
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"From the creators of the Academy Award-nominated documentary My Octopus Teacher, an immersive journey into the underwater world that inspired it--and holds transformative lessons for us all"--
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English
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A true tale of adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery and make history themselves. For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
388 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Sealab is the underwater Right Stuff: the compelling story of how a US Navy program sought to develop the marine equivalent of the space station — and forever changed man’s relationship to the sea. While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the US Navy launched a series of daring experiments to prove that divers could live and work from a sea-floor base. When the first underwater “habitat” called Sealab was tested in the early 1960s,...
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