Oceanology. The secrets of the sea revealed/Океанология. Секреты моря раскрыты

Издание на английском языке
We manifest an intrinsic fascination with those things on the brink of our knowledge. There’s a romance, a yearning, seemingly a need to wonder about things beyond our reach. Deep space, other planets, aliens … but, as is often cited, we may actually know more about these phenomena than about the inhabitants of our own oceans because 80 percent of them are unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored for the so very simple reason that this environment is beyond your reach and mine. We are terrestrial, airbreathing mammals, and while some humans swim well, free dive, or use increasingly sophisticated scuba kit or robots to explore the oceanic unknown, the rest of us “land lubbers” just watch the waves.

Contents
Marine world
What are oceans?
Ocean history
Ocean climates
Ocean depths
Rocky coasts
Surviving in the splash zone
Anchoring to the seabed
Coastal erosion
Growing above the tides
Surviving low tide
From coast to coast
Rasping rocks
Clinging on
Combing for plankton
Lodging in a shell
Waves
Fish on land
Fish shapes
Rock pool territory
Cold-blooded diving
Seas of color
Cliff nesting
Northern gannet
Hopping on rocks
Sandy beaches
Growing in wind-blown sand
Lifelike seas
Nesting on beaches
Beaches and dunes
Drama on the seas
American crocodile
Beachcombing
Tsunamis
Estuaries and mudflats
Living in sediment
Tides
Seabed stinger
Concealed danger
Sensing electricity
Migrating to breed
Mud probing
The dutch golden age
Sweeping for food
Fishing with feet
Mangroves and
Salt marshes
Growing in salt marshes
Colonizing roots
Growing on stilts
Living upside down
Living fossil
Salt water
Waving crabs
Hunting above water
Impressions of the sea
Adapting to changing salinity
Coral reefs
Simple bodies
Making rock
Synchronizing spawn
Horny skeleton
Living in a colony
Corals
Powered by sunlight
Stinging for prey
Coral reefs
Blooming with poison
Fanning the water
Giant clams
Collecting weaponry
Changing color
Art meets science
Cleaning hosts
Making a mask
Seabed feeding
Blue underwater
Inflatable bodies
Aboriginal sea stories
Mutual protection
Sex changer
Reef feeders
Bladed fish
Reef fish
Cryptic fish
Specialized fins
Seas of antiquity
Reef scrapers
Coastal seas
Absorbing light
Giant kelp
Underwater meadows
Producing light
Alternating generations
Asia’s sea deities
Living in a tube
Stinging bristles
Flapping to swim
Changing buoyancy
Hurricanes and typhoons
Jet propulsion
Nudibranchs
Heavy bodies
Suspension feeding
The great wave
Walking with arms
Tube feet
Starfish
Spiny skin
Scalloped hammerhead shark
Flying underwater
Swim bladders
Keeping out of sight
Sea-level change
All-over senses
Migrating in schools
Great frigatebird
Plunge diving
Sea otter
Grazing on grass
Humpback whale
Upwelling and downwelling
Atlantic spotted dolphin
Open oceans
Dividing labor
Phytoplankton
Staying afloat
Sustaining life in the dark
New ocean floor
Deepwater giants
Branching arms
Jellyfish and hydrozoans
Filter-feeding sharks
Ocean currents
Great white shark
Slow giant
Mapping the seas
Lights in the dark
Built for speed
Wandering albatross
Bulk feeding
Destruction of the oceans
Orca
Polar oceans
Sea butterfly
Sea ice
Polar swarms
Antifreeze in fish
Zooplankton
King penguin
Insulating layers
Southern elephant seal
Sensitive whiskers
Ice shelves and icebergs
Multipurpose fur
Narwhal
Classification
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments