Ocean Titans

Download or read book Ocean Titans written by Daniel Sekulich and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey into the world of merchant shipping from the shipyards in Korea, to a crossing of the North Atlantic in a ferocious gale, and into the boardroom of a wealthy ship owner in Monaco. Learn how a captain masters his craft, why a deckhand spends nine months at sea and how a ship is broken up on the shores of India. Daniel Sekulich is a masterful writer in the vein of John McPhee, with an observant eye and a gift for sparkling detail.

Download or read book Titans of the Seas written by James H. Belote and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two naval historians follow carrier warfare in the Pacific through Coral Sea, Midway, Easter Solomons, Santa Cruz and the climatic Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944.

Download or read book The Outlaw Ocean written by Ian Urbina and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.

Download or read book The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: Titan's Curse written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third book of the acclaimed series, Percy and his friends are escorting two new half-bloods safely to camp when they are intercepted by a manticore and learn that the goddess Artemis has been kidnapped.

Download or read book The Wreck of the Titan written by Morgan Robertson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eerily prescient novella from 1898 — 14 years before the Titanic disaster — tells of an "unsinkable" luxury liner's maiden voyage across the Atlantic and her disastrous collision with an iceberg.

Download or read book How Deep Is the Ocean ? written by Su Jun Wei and published by 台灣開放式課程發展協會. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ocean affects the global climate and weather, and also plays a critical role in the carbon cycle. Although the origin of the ocean is unknown, it is generally believed that it has existed since the Hadean and is the driving force for the origin of all living creatures. Sea water covers about 70% of the earth′s surface, with an average depth of about 3680 meters. In contrast, the average height of the global exposed surface is only 860 meters. The deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, is 11,000 meters deep, which is nearly 2,200 meters more than Mount Everest, which is 8,848 meters. Humans have laid their footprints all over the world′s land, but only 5% of the ocean has been explored. As a habitat for creatures, there are about 230,000 species currently identified in the ocean, and most of the abyssal sea remains unexplored. It is estimated that there will be more than 2 million marine species. Now, follow our lead to explore this beautiful and mysterious realm! First of all, let′s start from 1 meter below sea level…

Download or read book Illustrated World written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: