Ocean Expedition

Humankind has explored every continent on earth, climbed its tallest mountains, and gone into space. But the largest areas of our planet remain a mystery: the deep oceans. At over 36,000 feet deep, these areas closest to earth’s core have remained nearly impossible to reach - until now. Technological innovations, engineering breakthroughs and the derring-do of a unique team of engineers and scientists, led by explorer Victor Vescovo, brought together an audacious global quest to dive to the deepest points of all five oceans for the first time in history. 

""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...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets “An irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heart-stopping adventure writing, and...

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 ...

A true story of making a dream come true. An inspiring tale of risk, sacrifice, determination and achievement in an epic journey around the world. An extraordinary effort to rescue and restore a legendary yacht. A first hand account of a great sea adventure. A west to east circumnavigation against the odds through the traitorous Sothern ocean, around three great capes (cape of Good Hope, Leeuwin and Cape Horn) on a tiny 10-meter, 40-year old boat. Five ocean crossings and 38.000+ nautical miles sailed in two and a half years.

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...

Bloomsbury presents Race for the South Pole by Roland Huntford. read by David Thorpe For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words. In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his...

A devastating secret has been buried off the shores of Kilkee since 1982. Now, something colossal has awakened in the dark waters. When journalist Ryan embarks on a routine expedition aboard the Cuan Mara research vessel, he expects to uncover local myths. Instead, a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse disables their ship, leaving the crew stranded in the churning Atlantic. An ancient apex predator, armed with unimaginable destructive capabilities, is hunting them from the abyss. Trapped in a life-or-death struggle against an unstoppable marine entity, Ryan and the surviving crew must ...

Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter traveled over 65,000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within. In The Voyage of Sorcerer II, Venter and writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued.

Two miles beneath the surface, the truth is waiting to tear them apart. Eleven years ago, Nacre Dynamics claimed the research submersible Asterion suffered a catastrophic pressure failure. Marine systems engineer Tamsin Rook accepted the official implosion story to cope with the death of her sister. But that fragile peace shatters when a new sonar sweep discovers the vessel lying perfectly intact on the ocean floor. Driven by the need for answers, Tamsin joins a corporate recovery expedition to examine the wreckage. When she reaches the dark zone, the physical evidence is undeniable: the ...

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 ...

In 1870, a man took a bet. He said he could sail a twenty-foot yawl across the Atlantic. East to west. The hard way. Most men would have laughed. He didn’t. He just went. The Ocean Wager tells the true story of Captain Nikola Primorac, a quiet sailor from Dubrovnik who risked everything to cross the sea in a boat smaller than most lifeboats. No engine. No charts worth trusting. No backup. Just sails, salt, and the will to endure. This is not a tale of glory. There are no parades here. No medals. Just storms and silence. Just two men and a dog, soaked and half-mad, crawling across a grey ...

After a long and exalted military career, General Connor Gates thought he was finally ready to retire. He was wrong. When interstellar probes sent to Earth’s star system report back 40 years earlier than expected, the colonists learn that humans somehow survived the cataclysmic events of the past…but so did the enemy.

Seven hundred meters into the Atlantic abyss, Amara's sonar catches a fissure glowing like a heartbeat - and something ancient looks back through it. She's the only diver on her ship's crew who has ever gone this deep and come back. She's about to find out why no one else has. What her captain hauls up isn't wreckage. It's Olokun - the drowned Yoruba capital of the god of the deep seas, fully intact, exactly where legend swore it couldn't exist. Every reading the crew takes wakes the city a little further. The storms roll in within hours. The currents stop answering to the charts. Warning ...

In Beyond the Blue Horizon, best-selling science historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring mystery of the oceans, the planet’s most forbidding terrain. This is not a tale of Columbus or Hudson, but of much earlier mariners. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans has changed history, even before history was written.

Ines Roque lost her brother in the 2011 crossing. She has never said his name aboard. Now the Pelagia is anchored over the Tenney Seamount, laying Rook Ferreira's sensor net around a trench whose depth kills sonar and whose current has never been kind. Every mile of cable is a bet, and Ines knows what the sea does with bets. Priya Naicker has proof there is only one animal down there. Kit Saracen has a documentary deal contingent on more footage. Dr. Ilse Brandt of the Sanctuary Authority has a suspension order she has not yet served. Halden Voss, the fishing captain who once ran the coast ...

In a modern world, were communication and global reach is a given, staying stock in the middle of the arctic tundra, a group of scientists will face an evil, never before seen, by human eyes. the adventures and mysteries they will encounter will leave you breathless, and asking for more, the smell and flavor of human flesh will not be easily ignored. lost , in a trail. whiteout blizzards and blackout nights.

When Alex Carter, a seasoned underwater archaeologist, receives a mysterious invitation to a top-secret expedition off the coast of a remote island, he thinks it's just another chance to uncover a hidden treasure. The invite, however, is more than it seems—it's an urgent call from an anonymous source, warning Alex that the island holds a dark secret tied to a series of inexplicable disappearances. As Alex and his team descend into the depths of the ocean to explore the wreckage of a centuries-old shipwreck, they discover an ancient relic that seems to defy the laws of time and space. What...

“A gorgeous journey…You will be glad you’ve joined her.” —Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience that “captures rarely observed natural places” (San Francisco Chronicle) a woman and her toddler son follow...

The Bermuda Triangle has claimed ships, planes, and countless imaginations—but is the truth stranger than the legend? For over a century, stories of ghost ships, vanishing aircraft, and malfunctioning compasses have haunted the waters between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. Dubbed “The Devil’s Triangle” and “The Lingo of the Lost”, this region has become one of the most enduring mysteries on Earth. But how much of what we’ve been told is real—and how much is myth layered over myth? In Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved, author Eleanor Whitcombe takes you on an unforgettable ...