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1) Fatal Tide
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Pub. Date
[2003]
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"Melis Nemid is treading in dangerous waters - and she's about to be dragged under. As a marine researcher, Melis knows all too well the dangers that can lurk under even the calmest surfaces. But not even she can guess how deep the darkness runs. Only one oceanographer ever came close to discovering the deadly mystery that lies beneath the sea - and he's disappeared from the face of the earth." -- BOOK JACKET.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
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Genghis Khan - the greatest conqueror of all time, who at his peak ruled an empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. His conquests are the stuff of legend, his tomb a forgotten mystery. Until now. When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, it's obvious there's...
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It is the greatest advance in American defense technology in decades - an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype is missing and the man who developed it is dead. At the same time, ships have started vanishing mid-ocean, usually never to be found again, but when they are, sometimes bodies are found aboard . . . burned to a crisp. What is going on? It is up to NUMA director...
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Criterion collection volume 300
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Internationally reknown oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
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NUMA files volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
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"Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it not for the timely assistance of Austin and Zavala, would now be at the bottom of a watery grave." "What's so special about this statue? Austin wonders....
6) Abduction
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A mysterious transmission from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean sends a team of oceanographers and divers on a perilous quest in search of a discovery that could transform modern science and the future of humankind.
9) Below
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Pub. Date
2013
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Professional diver Will Sturman and brilliant and beautiful oceanographer Valerie Martell must stop a school of voracious sea creatures before they devastate the world's oceans.
10) Jacques Cousteau
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[2013], c2014
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This title introduces readers to Jacques Cousteau, the great explorer who introduced millions of people to the undersea world from his ship the Calypso. Cousteau's life story is examined from his childhood to his marriage and his education at the French Naval Academy and his service in the French Navy and World War II. Cousteau's collaboration with engineer Emile Gagnan is included, including their invention of the Self-Contained Underwater Breathing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 20
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This moving story of love and family is told through the eyes of five people: Jane Jones, her daughter Rebecca, and three very different men in their lives. After a watershed moment in their marriage, Jane leaves Oliver, her renowned marine biologist husband, and begins a journey across the country with Rebecca in search of understanding about her troubled past.
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Something new is lurking in the Earth's oceans, and when young oceanographer Laura Daughtery discovers a massive underwater creature, her obsession to uncover the origins of this dangerous "unidentified species" will lead her and others on a mysterious adventure through the darkest, deepest parts of the sea and the most sinister and shady places on Earth. The fate of the world is in their hands - they just don't know it.
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Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the leader of fascinating, often dangerous expeditions all over the planet, he discovered firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea--and watched the toll taken by human activity. In his last book, written over the last ten years of his life and finally available in the...
Pub. Date
2014
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Jacques Cousteau was the world's ambassador of the oceans. His popular TV series brought whales, otters, and dolphins right into people's living rooms. From the first moment he got a glimpse of what lived under the ocean's waves, Cousteau was hooked. And so he set sail aboard the Calypso to see the sea. He and his team of scientists invented diving equipment and waterproof cameras. They made films and televisions shows and wrote books so they could...
17) Jacques Cousteau
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Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Examines the life and accomplishments of the oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, describing his work studying and filming the undersea world.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Introduce young readers to the wonders of the sea and answer little kids' big questions about these incredible marine environments. How deep is the ocean? Did you know there are underwater volcanoes? How many species live in the sea? Why do tsunamis start? From the depths of the Mariana Trench to vibrant coral reefs, let this book be your guide to the mysteries of the seven seas. An astounding 80 percent of the ocean has never been explored, mapped,...
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Pub. Date
[2003]
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"Sea Legs is the story of Kathleen Crane, one of the first women oceanographers out of the world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. By turns personal and objective, Crane tells how her quest for freedom led her to the sea and her research of deep-sea underwater volcanoes. As research doors in the United States closed during the 1980s, Crane charted her scientific future with the Europeans and with scientists from...