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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A biographical account of engineer Otis Barton and naturalist Will Beebe's record-setting descent into the deep ocean in their Bathysphere craft, making the men the first humans to witness deep sea creatures in their natural habitat"--
43) Dark tide
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Kai and his stepfather must stop an ancient predator before the tide turns."--
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the creators of the Academy Award-nominated documentary My Octopus Teacher, an immersive journey into the underwater world that inspired it-and holds transformative lessons for us all"--
"From the creators of the hit documentary My Octopus Teacher, an immersive journey into the underwater world that inspired it--and holds transformative lessons for us all. Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck regularly dive together in the awe-inspiring kelp forests...
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Octonauts are a team of adventurers who explore the world's oceans, rescue aquatic creatures and protect their habitats, from the bustling eco-system along the Amazon River to the deepest depths of the Mariana Trench. Deploying a set of aquatic vehicles, Captain Barnacles, daredevil ex-pirate, Kwazii, medic Peso and the rest of the crew embark on missions around the globe before returning safely to their home base, the Octopod.
48) Sealab
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor. The video tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.
49) The deep
Author
Publisher
KaBOOM!
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Where the hit Netflix series began! Journey into The Deep with the daring aquanaut family, The Nektons, aboard their state-of-the-art (and oh, so shiny) submarine, The Aronnax. When an earthquake off the coast of Greenland leads to strange reports of monster sightings, William and Kaiko Nekton, along with their kids, Fontaine and Ant (and of course, Ant's pet fish, Jeffrey), dive into the mystery! Will they find what they're looking for? Will they...
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how the author and the photographer trained for and spent a week living in the Aquarius, a forty-three-foot long underwater habitat in the Florida Keys that holds six people, where they did research on fish movements and behavior.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
James Cameron looks back at the critical choices he made when creating the blockbuster film, Titanic, and with a team of experts, puts those ideas to the test against a wealth of new Titanic research underwater footage, computer-generated simulations, and scholarly discovery seeking to conclusively solve the mystery of this iconic historical event.
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Dr. Robert Ballard leads a team of experts and four World War II veterans to Midway Island where the U.S. and Japan fought one of the fiercest battles of the war. They're in a race against time to find at least one of the downed aircraft carriers including the U.S.S. Yorktown.
53) Into the deep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Close encounters of the oceanic kind."--Container.
Author
Series
Octonauts volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the Octonauts meet a giant goldfish who can't stop growing, they find themselves on a quest for a mysterious hidden ocean.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"DIVE! is a fascinating introduction to the comprehensive, world history of diving by award-winning artist Chris Gall. How do you breathe underwater? What tools can we use to go deeper and deeper into the oceans? And...what's down there? Two-thirds of our Earth is covered in ocean, yet only 5% of it has been explored. DIVE deep into our long history of sea exploration to learn why, how, and when humans have dived, and uncover our biggest questions...
Author
Series
Octonauts volume 2
Publisher
Immedium
Pub. Date
[2007].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the shadows in the ocean go missing, the Octonauts, a team of eight animal underwater explorers, must travel to the Sea of Shade to find them.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Octonauts are a crew of eight talented adventurers who love to explore the great big ocean. One day, Tunip wonders where he and the rest of the Vegimals originally came from. The Octonauts set off on an exciting mission to search all the wonderful and unusual underwater habitats. Will Tunip ever find somewhere truly special to call "home"?
Author
Publisher
Immedium
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Octonauts, a team of eight animals who explore the ocean, discover a bleached and abandoned coral reef, they learn about the important relationships among animals, plants, and their habitats.
59) In ascension
Author
Publisher
Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of Earth's first life forms -- what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The crew of the SSRN Seaview face even more danger in the second season-- including an island inhabited by ferocious dinosaurs, a ghostly U-Boat captain, and a fire in the sky that threatens to melt the polar ice cap.
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