Ocean Technology

The Culture -- a human/machine symbiotic society -- has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly...

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust...

A lonely place to die. At the center of the Pacific Ocean lies Point Nemo—the most remote location on Earth. A place so isolated that the closest humans are astronauts orbiting above it. For decades, it’s been used as a dumping ground for dead satellites. A graveyard in the deep. But after the crash landing of a Chinese space station, something else is now waiting there… The world’s superpowers are mobilising. Fleets are deployed. Weapons are primed in the race to possess it— A relentless blend of science, suspense, and high-stakes adventure—perfect for fans of Michael Crichton,...

How sabotage and disorder threaten the fragile network of undersea cables and pipelines that makes modern life possible—and how it may already be drawing the world into an all-out underwater war. The world depends on a tangle of underwater tubes on the ocean floor. Every day undersea cables...

The New York Times bestselling Culture novel. . . The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years...

What if the greatest UFO mystery on Earth is not in the sky, but beneath the waves. For more than a century, sailors, fishermen, military crews, and coastal communities around the world have reported encounters with objects that move effortlessly through the ocean, defy known technology, and transition seamlessly between sea and sky. These objects leave no wake, no debris, and often no official explanation. They are known today as USOs, unidentified submerged objects, and they represent one of the least explored frontiers in the UFO phenomenon. UFOs Under the Waves Part 1: USOs, Oceans, and...

The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. Yet despite its centrality to our world, the port and the story of its making have been neglected in histories of the United States. In A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth, historian James Tejani corrects that significant omission, charting the port's rise out of the mud and salt marsh of San Pedro estuary.

The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world’s oceans – the ultimate frontier of our planet. Humankind has explored every continent on earth, climbed its tallest mountains, and gone into space. But the largest areas of our planet remain a...

Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author’s exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea’s abyssal depths. Scientist and fisherman Carl Safina takes readers on a global journey of discovery, probing for truth about the world’s changing seas, deftly weaving adventure, science, and political analysis.

Ocean animals' special features help them survive in all parts of their watery homes, from the deep dark depths to busy coral reefs. Learn all about the amazing adaptations of ocean animals.

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 ...

Sealab is the underwater Right Stuff: the compelling story of how a U.S. Navy program sought to develop the marine equivalent of the space station - and forever changed man's relationship to the sea. While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the U.S. Navy launched a series of daring experiments to prove that divers could live and work from a sea-floor base.

This book explores the concept of water, and why living things - i.e., animals, humans, and plants - need it.

Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the mystery of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, and changes the world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment. Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. He's been a consulting oceanographer for multinational firms and a lead scientist on international research expeditions, but he's never held a conventional academic appointment.

As a young boy, the author took part in collecting specimens for his father. Fifty years later, he was asked to join a team from the same institution studying the state of sea life in the Bahamian waters where he grew up, as measured against his father’s benchmark. The first of the sea changes presented in this eloquent book stems from climate change and is the drastic transformation of ocean life due to global warming - but there are more.

Plastic is everywhere...even in our oceans! But how did it get there, and why does it matter? Max Axiom and the Society of Super Scientists are on a mission to find out. Using their superpowers and super-smarts, the team will break down this complex environmental issue into an exciting, fact-filled adventure so young listeners can learn about the causes and effects of plastic pollution and discover steps we can all take to clean up Earth's waters.

Dive into the captivating world of waves with "Waves in Action," a thought-provoking exploration of the integral roles sound and light play in our everyday lives and the very fabric of the universe. From their basic nature to their far-reaching applications, this book unfolds the intricate tapestry of waves that incessantly shape our world. Start with an introduction that brings to light how waves surround us, both seen and unseen. Unravel the mysteries of sound waves as we dissect their creation, anatomy, and the phenomena of frequency and amplitude. Journey into the dual nature of light, ...

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Twenty-seven divers are missing beneath the ice of Callisto. The colony they left behind cannot remember that they ever existed. Four months after the disaster at Hestia Station, signal archaeologist Dr. Sera Vale follows a forbidden Atlas coordinate to Nereid, a city suspended above a lightless alien ocean. Its engineered reef predicts deadly currents by reading human memory. Every safe route has a hidden price, and the people of Nereid have already paid more than they know. When Sera discovers empty dive racks, erased marriages, and heartbeats buried inside the reef, she realizes the ...

Discover the origins of water on Earth...with a talking comet! In this audiobook, an enthusiastic comet speeds through the universe, from the far reaches of space to planet Earth. Along the way, this rocketing rock reveals how our precious blue planet became, well, blue! This laugh-out-loud nonfiction book will have listeners young and old thirsty for more science.