Into the Great Wide Ocean

Description

Into the Great Wide Ocean
by Sönke Johnsen

ISBN: 9780691181745
Hardcover, new

Brief Description:
A seagoing scientist explores how life thrives in one of the most
mysterious environments on Earth The open ocean, far from the shore and
miles above the seafloor, is a vast and formidable habitat that is home to
the most abundant life on our planet, from giant squid and jellyfish to
anglerfish with bioluminescent lures that draw prey into their toothy
mouths. Into the Great Wide Ocean takes readers inside the peculiar world
of the seagoing scientists who are providing tantalizing new insights into
how the animals of the open ocean solve the problems of their existence.
Sönke Johnsen vividly describes how life in the water column of the open
sea contends with a host of environmental challenges, such as gravity,
movement, the absence of light, pressure that could crush a truck, catching
food while not becoming food, finding a mate, raising young, and forming
communities. He interweaves stories about the joys and hardships of the
scientists who explore this beautiful and mysterious realm, which is under
threat from human activity and rapidly changing before our eyes. Into the
Great Wide Ocean presents the sea and its inhabitants as you have never
seen them before and reminds us that the rules of survival in the open
ocean, though they may seem strange to us, are the primary rules of life on
Earth.