Full Fathom 5000 : the expedition of HMS Challenger and the strange animals it found in the deep sea / Graham Bell.

• PART 1 Before -- 1 The Deep Sea -- 2 Edward Forbes -- 3 Two Committees -- 4 The Ship and Her Crew -- PART 2 The Cruise -- 5 Outward Bound: December 1872–February 1873 -- 6 First Leg: The First North Atlantic Transect, February–March 1873 -- 7 Second Leg: The Sargasso Sea and Gulf Stream, March–May 1873 -- 8 Third Leg: The Second North Atlantic Transect, June–July 1873 -- 9 Fourth Leg: Into the South Atlantic, July–September 1873 -- 10 Fifth Leg: Across the South Atlantic, September–December 1873 -- 11 Sixth Leg: The Southern Ocean, December 1873–April 1874 -- 12 Seventh Leg: The Coral Sea, June–September 1874 -- 13 Eighth Leg: The Sea of Islands, September 1874–January 1875 -- 14 Ninth Leg: The West Pacific Ocean, January–April 1875 -- 15 Tenth Leg: The North Pacific Ocean, May–July 1875 -- 16 Eleventh Leg: The Length of the Pacific Ocean, July–November 1875 -- 17 Twelfth Leg: The Patagonian Fjords, December 1875–February 1876 -- 18 Homeward Bound: February–May 1876 -- PART 3 After -- 19 What Happened to the Ship -- 20 What Happened to the People -- 21 What Happened to the Animals. 

• This book is about a voyage which began the systematic exploration of the deep sea. Between 1873 and 1876, HMS Challenger sailed around the world and collected animals living a mile or more below the surface of the ocean. Conditions at these depths are unlike those anywhere else on Earth: crushing pressure, freezing cold and perpetual darkness. The animals that live there are equally extraordinary, but hardly any had ever been seen before. The Challenger expedition was a landmark in the history of science because it added a whole new fauna to the diversity of life, besides mapping the physical properties of the world ocean for the first time. The opening sections of the book set out how this extraordinary voyage was first conceived and planned. The middle sections follow the track of the voyage itself and describe the strange and hitherto unknown animals that the ship hauled up from the sea floor. It also describes the scientists and sailors who made the voyage, and how they contributed in different ways to its success. The closing sections deal with the varying fates of these men, and how the specimens they collected became the basis of our current knowledge of life in the deep sea. 

Ämnesord

Deep-sea animals.  (LCSH)

Voyages around the world  -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Institutionsnamn

Challenger (Ship : 1872-1876)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

N.07 Geografi: reseskildringar

Ug.082 Zoologi: havens djurvärld

Klassifikation

910.41 (DDC)

N.07 (kssb/8)

Ug.082 (kssb/8)