01988cam a2200313 i 4500 385811445 TxAuBib 20190718120000.0 190520s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019015075 9780316551311 28.00 0316551317 28.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Streever, Bill. In oceans deep [BOOK] : courage, innovation, and adventure beneath the waves / Bill Streever. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. xi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. In Oceans Deep celebrates the daring pioneers who tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water: free divers able to reach 300 feet on a single breath; engineers and scientists who uncovered the secrets of decompression; teenagers who built their own diving gear from discarded boilers and garden hoses in the 1930s; saturation divers who lived under water for weeks at a time in the 1960s; and the trailblazing men who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at pressures sufficient to trigger insanity. Tracing both the little-known history and exciting future of how we travel and study the depths, Streever's captivating journey includes seventeenth-century leather-hulled submarines, their nuclear-powered descendants, a workshop where luxury submersibles are built for billionaire clients, and robots capable of roving unsupervised between continents, revolutionizing access to the ocean. Provided by publisher. 20190718. Deep diving. Underwater exploration. Submarines (Ships.) Oceanography. Underwater physiology.