Tag: Ocean

The Bathysphere Book Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C4BGHPB7 | 2023 | 6 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 359 MB
Author: Brad Fox
Narrator: Lee Osorio

A wide-ranging, philosophical, and sensual account of early deep-sea exploration and its afterlives, The Bathysphere Book begins with the first ever voyage to the deep ocean in 1930 and expands to explore the adventures and entanglements of its all-too-human participants at a time when the world still felt entirely new. In the summer of 1930, aboard a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, marine biologist Gloria Hollister sat on a crate, writing furiously in a notebook with a telephone receiver pressed to her ear. The phone line was attached to a steel cable that plunged 3,000 feet into the sea. There, suspended by the cable, dangled a four-and-a-half-foot steel ball called the bathysphere. Crumpled inside, gazing through three-inch quartz windows at the undersea world, was Hollister’s colleague William Beebe. He called up to her, describing previously unseen creatures, explosions of bioluminescence, and strange effects of light and color.

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A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean A Bicycle Journey Through the Northern Dominion of Oil


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English | August 4, 2020 | ISBN: 1643134469 | 256 pages | MOBI | 11 Mb
In the face of widespread misinformation and misunderstanding, a climate scientist ventures into the vast heart of America’s new oil country on just two wheels.

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Mourning and Resilience in Indian Ocean Life Writing (EPUB)


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English | ISBN: 3031463447 | 2024 | 216 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The two motifs that run through the chapters – mourning and resilience – are theoretical frameworks that have so far not been brought into conversation in this way. The combination of trauma studies and autobiographical analysis sharpens the focus of the discussions on Indian Ocean life writing, privileging an Indian Ocean imaginary that is transnational and cross-oceanic in its orientation and pointing to networks of connections that transcend the nation state, which is often the origin of trauma in the first place. Filling a gap in Indian Ocean studies in its close readings of trauma and resilience, the book also broadens perspectives on postcolonial life writing since little attention has been paid so far to Indian Ocean autobiographical literary products. By the same token, the volume also enriches the field of Indian Ocean literary studies by incorporating life writing as an aesthetic strategy which helps to configure Indian Ocean subjectivities.

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Algorithms in Ocean Chemistry


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2020 | 64 Pages | ISBN: 8831688626 | PDF | 5 MB
Breathe in, breathe out…like a giant lung, oceans absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, and release it once again as cold water currents reach warmer areas of the globe. Indeed, CO2 solubility varies with temperature, together with other factors such as salinity and pressure.Chemically speaking, why does seawater so readily absorb carbon dioxide, thereby buffering the anthropogenic emission of this gas ?Oceans cover about 71% of the earth’s surface and the gaseous exchange occurs through the ocean’s surface, but the answer to this question lies deeper, in what is a widely underestimated fact: the pH (acidity level) of seawater is substantially alkaline, ranging from 8.0 to 8.7. This means that the balance of positive and negative ions is reached through a higher concentration of hydroxide ions (OH -) compared to hydrogen ions (H+).

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The Ocean in a Drop Navigating from Crisis to Consciousness


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English | September 12, 2023 | ISBN: 0750999691 | 320 pages | PDF | 3.87 Mb
"Roz is a born storyteller. This is a haunting, moral, knee-buckling compilation of how humans have utterly lost their way, an astounding deconstruction of homo moderna, a unique species that has learned to destroy its home. In sixteen chapters, she rows across the ocean of our fading planet. When her story finally hits sacred land, the reader will never be the same. I will read it twice." -Paul Hawken, international bestselling author of Regeneration and Drawdown

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Indian Ocean Futures


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English | ISBN: 1443894923 | 2016 | 307 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Rapid change in trade, demographics, culture and environment around the Indian Ocean demands a revaluation of how communities, sustainability and security are constituted in this globally strategically important region. Indian Ocean Futures: Communities, Sustainability and Security raises awareness of threats and opportunities beyond popular notions of communities through an examination of issues of concern to local, national, regional and transnational communities around the Indian Ocean Rim. This edited book is organized into three broad areas: the heritage and identity of communities, their sustainability and their security. The first section examines how heritage and identity are negotiated in establishing the basis of communities and public discussion of their futures. The second part explores different practices, technologies and communities of sustainability; from technologies being developed for sustainable coastal regions to the adoption of traditional practices for food management. The final section canvasses the changing landscapes and seascapes of the Indian Ocean in relation to the broad concerns of food, environmental and political security. As such, this volume offers the reader valuable engagement with the complex relations of communities and environments and key discourses shaping understandings of the future of the Indian Ocean region.

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