Adventures in Ocean Exploration : From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noahs Flood
by By McConnell, Malcolm and Ballard, Robert D.
Category: Science , Earth Sciences , Oceanography

Few men know the ocean as well as Robert Ballard. A pioneering  marine scientist, he has dived in submersibles in all the  planet's oceans, contributed key pieces to such scientific  puzzles as plate tectonics and deep-ocean biology, and located  scores of wrecked ships all over the world, included the doomed  liner Titanic and the battered hulk of the German battleship  Bismarck. Now, in this generously illustrated chronicle of our  age-old fascination with the sea, he interweaves his experiences  at the heart of modern undersea exploration with a vivid account  of thousands of years of seafaring and discovery, as his own most  exciting and important dives become the starting points for an  odyssey through time that introduces the greatest sailors and  voyages of history and sketches the evolution of ships and  navigation from the first reed boats to the nuclear submarines of  today.