The Deepest Map

By Laura Trethewey,

Book cover of The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans

Book description

The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth-the world's seafloor-and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils this exploration holds now and for the future.

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1 author picked The Deepest Map as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I could totally see myself and my science in this book. It was so much fun to read about so many people that I have been to sea and worked with in other ways but to hear about this amazing work and why it is so important in a fresh new way. As a result, I didn’t want to say goodbye to this book, especially because so many of us are still out there adding more chapters to this continuing story!

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