Download or read book Deep Sea Disaster written by Davy Ocean and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the world of Harry Hammer, a hammerhead shark with a penchant for (mis)adventure in this fin-tastic start to a chapter book series. Harry Hammer is a hammerhead shark, although he’d rather be a great white shark, or a tiger shark—anything but himself. But when a class trip to a famous shipwreck almost ends in disaster for Harry and his pals, he realizes the importance of being exactly who he is!
Download or read book Trapped Under the Sea written by Neil Swidey and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.
Download or read book Shark School 3 Books in 1 written by Davy Ocean and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three books of the Shark School series are now available in a fin-tastic paperback edition! In Deep-Sea Disaster, a class trip to a famous shipwreck almost ends in disaster for Harry Hammer and his pals. In Lights! Camera! Hammerhead!, humans arrive at Shark Point to film an underwater documentary and Harry wants a starring role. But his dreams start turning to nightmares when arch rival Rick Reef also wants a part in the movie! And in Squid-napped!, Harry leaves Shark Point for faraway waters—and comes face to face with a ravenous giant squid who hasn’t had his lunch yet!
Download or read book Shipwrecks written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ships have been overwhelmed by huge waves, consumed by fires, broken apart, sunk by storms and driven onto uncharted rocks. They have collided with icebergs or other ships, been sunk by enemy torpedoes or gunfire, or run aground on unlit coastlines at night. Boilers have exploded. Magazines have ignited. Cargoes have shifted with catastrophic consequences and submarines have submerged never to come up again. Shipwrecks selects the sinkings with the greatest loss of life, the most famous vessels, the richest treasure troves, the most archaeologically significant wreck sites and the most daring rescues. It tells the tales of the fate of the victims, the disastrous mistakes made by ships' captains and navigators, the impossible conditions faced at sea, the courage of those who survived and the audacious attempts to raise what now lies at the bottom of the sea.
Download or read book The Incredible Record setting Deep sea Dive of the Bathysphere written by Bradford Matsen and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 1934 dive of a bathysphere, or "sphere of the deep," in which two explorers, William Beebe and Otis Barton, set the world depth record and saw mysterious creatures of the deep ocean.
Download or read book Last Man Off written by Matt Lewis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sinister version of The Perfect Storm. Thrilling.”—Sunday Times (UK) For readers of The Perfect Storm, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and Into the Wild There’s nothing that armchair adventure lovers relish more than a gripping true story of disaster and heroism, and Last Man Off delivers all that against a breathtaking backdrop of icebergs and killer whales. On June 6, 1998, twenty-three-year-old Matt Lewis had just started his dream job as a scientific observer aboard a deep-sea fishing boat in the waters off Antarctica. As the crew haul in the line for the day, a storm begins to brew. When the captain vanishes and they are forced to abandon ship, Lewis leads the escape onto three life rafts, where the battle for survival begins.
Download or read book Deep Sea Treasury written by Davy Ocean and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive in to the exciting undersea world of Harry Hammer, a hammerhead shark, and his fishy friends, who are never more than a bite away from (mis)adventure in this fin-tastic chapter book series!
Download or read book Into the Raging Sea written by Rachel Slade and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR NON FICTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE ONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR SO FAR “A powerful and affecting story, beautifully handled by Slade, a journalist who clearly knows ships and the sea.”—Douglas Preston, New York Times Book Review “A Perfect Storm for a new generation.” —Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No one could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications, a sophisticated navigation system, and cutting-edge weather forecasting could suddenly vanish—until now. Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts, as well as the words of the crew members themselves—whose conversations were captured by the ship’s data recorder—journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking of El Faro. As she recounts the final twenty-four hours onboard, Slade vividly depicts the officers’ anguish and fear as they struggled to carry out Captain Michael Davidson’s increasingly bizarre commands, which, they knew, would steer them straight into the eye of the storm. Taking a hard look at America's aging merchant marine fleet, Slade also reveals the truth about modern shipping—a cut-throat industry plagued by razor-thin profits and ever more violent hurricanes fueled by global warming. A richly reported account of a singular tragedy, Into the Raging Sea takes us into the heart of an age-old American industry, casting new light on the hardworking men and women who paid the ultimate price in the name of profit.
Download or read book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea written by Gary Kinder and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek
Download or read book Mad Scientist Academy The Space Disaster written by Matthew McElligott and published by Crown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Ada Twist, Scientist, will want to join Dr. Cosmic’s class of clever monsters as they tackle gravity, comets, and many moons in the third book of the Mad Scientist Academy series. When Dr. Cosmic’s class meets Commander Nova, the school astronomer, they know their next lesson will be out of this world! With the help of Dr. Cosmic’s latest invention—a planetarium—the class must complete four challenges. Each time the planetarium shifts and the atmosphere changes, the students find themselves floating from planet to planet. They put their new magnetic antigravity belts and trusted handbooks to the test to figure out where in the solar system Dr. Cosmic’s invention has “sent” them—and how to land safely back on Earth. Don't Miss Mad Scientist Academy: The Ocean Disaster! "Young readers can only hope for this much excitement on their real field trips." —Kirkus Reviews "[A] space adventure that young readers will pore over, learn from, and enjoy." —School Library Journal
Download or read book Squid napped written by Davy Ocean and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harry Hammer decides to leave Shark Point for better waters, he finds squid-tastic trouble instead in this Shark School (mis)adventure. Instead of a super-cool celebration, Harry Hammer’s birthday party turns into a super-colossal embarrassment! Why do his parents always make him feel like a big baby hammerhead in front of his friends—and his arch rival, Rick Reef? Harry decides he’d be better off alone and leaves Shark Point for faraway waters. But he comes face-to-face with a giant squid who hasn’t had his lunch yet! Uh-oh…is the birthday boy on the menu?
Download or read book Space Invaders written by Davy Ocean and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Hammer and Rick Reef travel to the mysterious surface world of Earth in this final Shark School (mis)adventure. Harry Hammer’s latest hero ‘Terranaut’ Buzz Sharkfin is planning a mission to ‘outer space,’ which to a shark is planet Earth! Harry can’t wait to be part of Buzz Sharkfin’s awesome adventure. But when his arch-rival and life-long nemesis Rick Reef, is chosen for the mission, too, it’s anything but smooth sailing. Once out of the deep blue sea, Harry and Rick discover a strange and dangerous new world with dogs and cars and humans, and they realize there’s no place like home!
Download or read book Deep Sea Detectives written by Peter Limburg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Denizens of the Deep written by Philip Wylie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection of Stories about Fish, Fishermen, and Favorite Fishing Spots with Action on Every Page The incomparable Philip Wylie is here writing about one of the things he likes best—fishing. Anyone who has ever wet a line, and perhaps those few benighted souls who haven’t, will be thrilled to read these true tales about the big ones, hooked (and sometimes lost) in tropic waters. In Denizens of the Deep, which was originally published in 1947, there are wonderful chapters on marlin, the “admirable” barracuda, and the shark, whom Wylie calls “that misunderstood fish.” The bursting pride when you catch that first big one is recaptured with fine nostalgia in the essay “What Makes a Great Day’s Fishing?” and the tragedy of the clean getaway in “Listen to This Tale of Woe.” Serious fishermen with an interest in the pastime’s history will also find much valuable information in the chapter on the International Game Fish Association. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Deep Sea Disaster written by Rachael Hohf and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interactive adventure book where you make the decisions about where to go next! You've just gotten to San Diego for a fun summer of surfing, scuba diving, and deep-sea fishing with your friends--but will you make the right choices to survive your ocean experience? Should you explore the underwater cavern, or the seaweed forest? Help mysterious strangers, or play it safe? Investigate the abandoned dock house, or just go fishing? You may be approached by odd characters who want you to follow them, investigate for them, or just get your help. What will YOU do? NOTICE: This book shouldn't be read in order!! Each page will tell you which page to jump to next--sometimes the next page, sometimes 20 or 30 pages ahead and then back again as you make different decisions throughout the story. FROM THE BOOK: You must have fallen asleep from exhaustion, because the next thing you know, the sun is setting in brilliant pinks and oranges. You hear the night animals begin to stir on the island, and several unfamiliar bird calls pierce the air. At least you still have your light, and you know how to make a fire, so you start gathering small pieces of wood and stacking them in a pyramid along the shore. Strange little lizards run around your feet, making clicking noises at one another. You think you spot a bird coasting between two trees a few hundred feet away, but even at this distance, it's larger than any bird you've ever seen. Something feels a little off about this island, but you can't quite figure out what it is that's making you uneasy. What would YOU do? Read this book and make your own choices!
Download or read book The Boy Who Cried Shark written by Davy Ocean and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published as Harry Hammer: shark alert in 2013 in Great Britain by Templar Publishing"--Title page verso.
Download or read book The Incredible Hunt for the Giant Squid written by Bradford Matsen and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight long arms ... Two gigantic tentacles ... Twelve-inch eyes! Although many fascinating facts are known about the giant squid, the elusive animal remains the most mysterious of the underwater creatures: No one has ever seen a living giant squid. Come along on an exciting journey with an expert squid hunter as he attempts to make history and become the first person to see a giant squid alive in its natural habitat. Learn more about the discoveries of other mysterious sea creatures, such as the coelacanth and the megamouth shark, that are hidden in the sea. Book jacket.
