{"product_id":"the-eternal-darkness-a-personal-history-of-deep-sea-exploration-9780691175621","title":"The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert D. Ballard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Oceanography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bob Ballard, building on the early work of Jacques Cousteau, is the preeminent pioneer in truly deep sea exploration and here is the fascinating, gripping story that only he is qualified to tell.\"\u003cb\u003e--Walter Cronkite\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bob Ballard's \u003ci\u003eThe Eternal Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the exciting 20th-century advances in underwater technology, many of them his own. Their contributions to deep ocean knowledge, exploration, discovery, salvage, and natural resource utilization have forever changed the way we view and understand our planet's oceans, and will, in the future, change the way we care for our seas. Ballard now joins Cousteau as another inspired visionary.\"\u003cb\u003e--Scott Carpenter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bob Ballard is a tenacious explorer of the deep ocean and discoverer of ancient sea treasures. Two thousand years ago no trains, planes, or automobiles existed. Most transportation was by sea. Important knowledge of the past can only be uncovered from where it lies, buried in the ocean floor. Bob exhibits his fascination with the unknown by uncovering history that lies at the bottom of the sea floor that is critical to our understanding of the ancient world.\"\u003cb\u003e--Jean-Michel Cousteau\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ballard is one of the great explorers of the age. He is not only a great explorer, but a gifted story-teller and an evangelist for science. His joy and contagious excitement in exploration and science have captured the imagination of thousands of students, and rescuing them from dull science teachers, has converted them to pursuing careers in scientific discovery. Now in \u003ci\u003eThe Eternal Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e he draws on all his talent, and his hair-raising experiences, to capture the rest of us in a great adventurous read.\"\u003cb\u003e--John F. Lehman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"While making some of the most significant discoveries of all time, from finding the \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e to exposing the geophysical processes that cause oceans to form and continents to move, explorer-scientist Robert Ballard has lived adventures that combine the best of scientific research and Indiana Jones. Bristling with suspense and laced with wry humor, \u003ci\u003eThe Eternal Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e will captivate even the most seasoned landlubber.\"\u003cb\u003e--Sylvia A. Earle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ballard's perspective on specific events in the history of deep-sea explorations is fresh and exciting. This is an important record of the remarkable progression in technology from extremely primitive underwater diving bells to a multiplicity of manned and unmanned systems enabling human presence in the deep ocean.\"\u003cb\u003e--J. Frederick Grassle, Rutgers University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45117309452439,"sku":"9780691175621","price":2023.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780691175621.webp?v=1767099689","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-eternal-darkness-a-personal-history-of-deep-sea-exploration-9780691175621","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}