Over seventy percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans, only a fraction of which has ever been explored. William Beebe was one of this century's leading pioneers into the oceanic world. The Brooklyn, New York, native possessed an unrelenting curiosity about the natural world around, and beneath, him. Through his dozens of books describing his various expeditions, Beebe brought the ...

Ocean Planet: Writings and Images of the Sea A Dark and Luminous Blue William Beebe - Half Mile Down, 1934 We have seen the Titanic lying in her grave more than 12, 000 feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic; we have seen the crabs and tube worms and other unlikely creatures that inhabit cracks in the sea floor far beyond the reach of light; we have even seen the Challenger Deep, the most ...