In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves Audiobook (Free)

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

In a day and time of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain mainly unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty, and inspiration. Costs Streever-a longtime deep-sea diver himself-has masterfully woven together the science and background of Earth’s last remaining 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 divers able to reach 300 ft on a single breath; technicians and researchers who uncovered the secrets of decompression; teens who built their own diving gear from discarded boilers and backyard hoses in the 1930s; saturation divers who lived under drinking water for weeks at a time in the 1960s; and the trailblazing guys who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at stresses sufficient to cause insanity.

Tracing both little-known background and interesting future of how exactly we travel and study the depths, Streever’s captivating journey includes seventeenth-century leather-hulled submarines, their nuclear-powered descendants, a workshop where luxury submersibles are designed for billionaire clients, and robots with the capacity of roving unsupervised between continents, revolutionizing usage of the sea.

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