num_pages: 328
description: 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 the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. In the process she became an unwitting diplomat. From the Galapagos dives in the Alvin and the early searches for Titanic  to many of the first scientific expeditions of the Arctic Crane offers an exclusive and compelling first-hand account as a pioneer for women in oceanography. An explorer environmentalist and filmmaker Crane's story encompasses the world's oceans politics international relations scientific espionage ships and a passion for the natural world. At its heart however this is a story about humanity and the forces that drive people to persevere despite the odds and do the things they love.
language: English
title: Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer
publisher: Basic Books