Ocean Discovery

"An Ocean Life" is a gripping odyssey brimming with twists in cinematic prose into a harrowing fight for life and self-discovery. "An epic ocean voyage unlike any other" Following years of grappling with financial challenges, Mark at last secures the vital funding required to sustain his ailing company. Filled with a profound sense of relief and newfound optimism, Mark decides to celebrate by treating his family to a long-awaited vacation—a chance to temporarily escape the pressures that have weighed heavily on them for so long. He also yearns to reignite the spark in his marriage. ...

What if the last great frontier wasn't space—but the depths below? Meet Theodore. Explorer, scientist, dreamer. With two master’s degrees—one in bioscience and one in mechanical engineering—and a PhD in oceanography, he's not just prepared for adventure; he was born for it. In Theodore The Explorer: Born To Discover, follow a man whose heart beats to the rhythm of curiosity and whose compass points toward the unknown. From lost civilizations beneath the sea to untold tales whispered by the wind, Theodore journeys across jungles, deserts, ruins, reefs, and into the hearts of people ...

AN AUDIBLE BEST AUDIOBOOK OF 2025 Award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a powerful call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this habitat is for the survival of humanity and the earth's...

""Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and...

Twenty kilometres beneath Europa’s ice, a probe finds something that should not exist, and the one person who wanted this discovery most is the one who now has to protect it from her own species. Mara has spent eighteen months alone at Calypso, a four-module habitat drilled into the ice of Jupiter’s moon, watching a probe named Orpheus creep downward at three metres a day toward an ocean no instrument has ever touched. Then, on an ordinary afternoon, the pressure readings drop to zero. Orpheus has broken through, into water that has been sealed in darkness for longer than complex life ...

If your child loves ocean animals and exciting stories, this book turns real ocean science into an unforgettable adventure. Unlike fact-heavy textbooks, this is a story-driven STEM adventure where science is woven naturally into the plot, dialogue, and discoveries. Kids join Max, a curious explorer, and Atlas, his friendly robot guide, as they dive into coral reefs, explore ocean zones, meet deep sea creatures, and learn simple ways to protect the ocean.

David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles his most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research, and mid-ocean stamina and courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, plus the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies. Combining the adventuring derring-do of Indiana Jones with the precision of a scientist, The Shipwreck Hunter opens an illuminating porthole into the shadowy depths of the ocean.

A Tail Could Tell a Tale Locklyn Adair has never fit in. The legs she inherited as a result of her great-great-grandmother’s curse make it impossible for her to belong under the sea. When her niece is also born without a tail, Locklyn is determined to save her from similar rejection by sending...

Off the jagged coast of Maine, a remote community keeps its secrets buried deep—until the bodies refuse to stay down. When insurance investigator Nate Halpern arrives to audit a string of suspicious maritime claims, he expects to uncover a mundane financial scam. Instead, he finds a town bound by a blood-soaked pact. For two centuries, a powerful local family has protected a horrifying lineage, masking brutal massacres as tragic boating accidents and collecting the payouts to fund their silence. But the sedation protocols are failing. The chains are breaking. And as a catastrophic storm ...

Read by the authors. Includes an exclusive bonus song, “Ocean’s World,” written for the book! Join Ocean and Kingston as they explore the ocean, discover wildlife, and learn fascinating marine facts in Ocean's World, an action and adventure story for kids! Ocean and his little brother...

Three centuries ago, captain Gideon Rake buried a staggering fortune on an uncharted Atlantic outpost before leaving a frantic warning about the massive beasts that forced him to flee. Now, historian Dr. Tessa Vale has decoded Rake's lost notes and led a salvage team to the exact coordinates. She hopes to document a biological impossibility and secure her academic legacy. The heavily armed rival crew tracking her wake simply wants the gold, and they are willing to slaughter anyone standing in their way. As a massive hurricane traps both teams, they are forced to navigate a labyrinth of ...

In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for...

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes—from an award-winning science writer “Sing Like Fish is that rare book that makes you see the world differently.”—Mark...

The ocean remembers. After surviving the unimaginable discoveries beneath the Pacific, marine explorer Jack Sullivan thought he understood the secrets hidden beneath Earth's oceans. He was wrong. When an unmapped trench deeper than any known abyss is discovered, Jack and his team descend into a forgotten world erased from every map in history. Even the mysterious Watchers refuse to enter. Ancient civilizations left no records of what lies below. Instead, they left only one warning. Do not awaken what sleeps beneath the Devil's Trench. As impossible creatures emerge from the darkness and ...

The Aldens have joined Dr. Iris Perez as she investigates legendary creatures around the world. In this adventure, the children investigate what might be living in the deep trench off the coast of Puerto Rico. From manatees to mermaids to sea monsters, creatures of the sea have been attracting...

For fans of Ilona Andrews and Sarah J. Maas, a modern mermaid story with teeth. Real-life mermaids don’t live in a fairy tale. They are terrified young women, scared to death of being found out. They learn from harsh experiences that people who are different get treated like prey. To survive, mermaids have to grow up tough or die. Bobbi Watson has spent years hiding the most dangerous secret imaginable: she’s a mermaid. So are her two best friends, Chloe and Ruby. Living in Brisbane, they’ve built careful human lives, a chain of pubs, a pop music career, a university research position...

Jeremy Wright Brady, five foot eight, middle child, a few fair-haired curls hidden away under a well-worn Texas Rangers ball cap. A teenager, born into an average size family with strong roots in the East Texas community of Cinder Veil, he thrives on the remote aspects of water as an all around angler. Hobbies include fishing the river, fishing the stock tank, fishing in the lake, and soon to be a deep-sea fisherman. Not a momma’s boy or in a daddy’s shadow, he takes his lead on the water from his wise Gramps. When his Gramps passes away, an unsettling stirs the experiences and memories...

ALIENS ON EARTH The Terrifying Creatures Hidden in Our Oceans You don’t need to search the stars to find alien life. The most terrifying creatures on Earth are already here—lurking in the deepest parts of our oceans. Far below the sunlight, where pressure can crush steel and darkness never ends, strange lifeforms survive in ways that seem impossible. Fish with transparent heads. Squid with glowing eyes. Worms that eat bones. Creatures so bizarre they look like they came from another planet. In Aliens on Earth, descend into the mysterious world of the deep sea and discover the real ...

The year is 1492 — and the world is about to change forever. Jayme de Marchena is a man living in the shadows. Of Jewish heritage in an Spain consumed by the Inquisition, he walks a razor's edge between survival and ruin. When the noose of suspicion tightens, a desperate gamble takes him...

EDITORIAL REVIEW Dark Oxygen is a masterfully crafted Documented Terror that transforms a real scientific mystery into a breathtaking journey of suspense, discovery, and existential dread. Combining deep-sea exploration, unforgettable characters, escalating mystery, and an awe-inspiring finale, Ted Lazaris delivers a page-turning thriller that keeps readers questioning what may be hidden beneath our world. Equal parts scientific intrigue, oceanic horror, and epic mystery, Dark Oxygen is a haunting and unforgettable adventure that lingers long after the final page. DARK OXYGEN A True ...