In the spirit of Bill Bryson and Ian Frazier comes this fascinating examination of our past, present, and future under the waves.

In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: filled with mystery, danger, beauty, and inspiration. Costs Streever-a longtime deep-sea diver himself-has masterfully woven collectively the science and history of Earth’s last staying frontier: the ocean.

In Oceans Deep celebrates the daring pioneers who about In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Under the Waves tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water: free of charge divers able to reach 300 foot about the same breath; designers and scientists who uncovered the secrets of decompression; teenagers who built their very own diving equipment from discarded boilers and backyard hoses in the 1930s; saturation divers who resided under drinking water for weeks at a time in the 1960s; as well as the trailblazing males who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at stresses sufficient to cause insanity.

Tracing both little-known history and exciting future of how exactly we travel and research the depths, Streever’s captivating journey contains seventeenth-century leather-hulled submarines, their nuclear-powered descendants, a workshop where luxury submersibles are built for billionaire clients, and robots capable of roving unsupervised between continents, revolutionizing usage of the sea.

In this far-flung trip to the wild, night-dark host to shipwrecks, trapped submariners, oil wells, innovative technologies, and folks willing to risk their lives while challenging the deep, we discover all of the adventures our seas need to offer-and why they are in such dire need of conservation.