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100 1 Ballard, Robert D.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
n83073944
245 14 The eternal darkness :|ba personal history of deep-sea
exploration /|cRobert D. Ballard, with Will Hively.
264 1 Princeton, N.J. :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2000]
264 4 |c©2000
300 xii, 388 pages :|billustrations (some color), maps ;|c24
cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-374) and
index.
505 0 Depth -- Simple tethered sphere -- Bathyscaphs race to the
bottom -- Tragic dawn of the modern deep submersible --
Discovery -- Scientists begin exploring the deep --
Midocean ridge: Womb of the Earth -- Hydrothermal vents:
Exotic oases -- Black smokers: Recipe for a salty ocean --
Detachment -- Tethered eyeball races to find the Titanic -
- Recovering our past by remote control -- Should humans
continue to dive: Two paradigms.
520 Until a few decades ago, the ocean depths were almost as
mysterious and inaccessible as outer space. Oceans cover
two-thirds of the earth's surface with an average depth of
more than two miles -- yet humans had never ventured more
than a few hundred feet below the waves. One of the great
scientific and archaeological feats of our time has been
finally to cast light on the "eternal darkness" of the
deep sea. This is the story of that achievement, told by
the man who has done more than any other to make it
possible: Robert Ballard. Ballard discovered the wreck of
the Titanic. He led the teams that discovered hydrothermal
vents and "black smokers"--Cracks in the ocean floor where
springs of superheated water support some of the strangest
life-forms on the planet. He was a diver on the team that
explored the mid-Atlantic ridge for the first time,
confirming the theory of plate tectonics. Today, he is
exploring the ancient trade routes of the world in hopes
of launching a new field of research in deep-water
archaeology. In this book, he combines science, history,
spectacular illustrations, and firsthand stories from his
own expeditions in a uniquely personal account of how
twentieth-century explorers have pushed back the frontiers
of technology to take us into the midst of a world we
could once only guess at. Ballard begins in 1930 with
William Beebe and Otis Barton, pioneers of the ocean
depths who made the world's first deep-sea dives in a
cramped steel sphere. He introduces us to Auguste and
Jacques Piccard, whose "bathyscaph" descended in 1960 to
the lowest point on the ocean floor. He reviews the
celebrated advances made by Jacques Cousteau. He describes
his own major discoveries-- from sea-floor spreading to
black smokers -- as well as his technical breakthroughs,
including the development of remote -operated underwater
vehicles and the revolutionary search techniques that led
to the discovery and exploration of the Titanic, the Nazi
battleship Bismarck, ancient trading vessels, and other
great ships.
650 0 Underwater exploration|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
subjects/sh85139619|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/subjects/sh99005024
650 7 Underwater exploration.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
fast/1161098
650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235
700 1 Hively, Will.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
n99054638
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