Water Baby: The Story of Alvin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195061918 ISBN 13: 9780195061918

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1990

A scientific biography of the deep-diving submersible, Alvin, probes the deepest recesses of the sea where twelve foot tube worms frolic and plate-sized clams gather barnacles on the ocean floor

About the Author:

About the Author:
Victoria A. Kaharl is Science Writer in Residence at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

From Library Journal:

The location of the Titanic and the discovery of marine plants surviving at unheard-of ocean depths were among the many underwater wonders espied by scientists aboard the submarine Alvin in the early 1970s. Kaharl, a science writer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, at which Alvin is based, conveys the excitement of these discoveries. Readers will also learn of the initial skepticism of many scientists and administrators toward the idea of a research submersible, of the politics of obtaining funding for its operation, of rivalry among scientists, the technical problems of safely operating a vessel and equipment of great complexity, and the difficulties encountered by female oceanographers before 1980. Of interest to the general public as well as to young adults, the book could nevertheless have been improved through tighter editing and the inclusion of suggestions for further reading.
- Judith B. Barnett, Pell Marine Science Lib., Univ. of Rhode Island, Narragansett
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