Hidden depths: Fathoming the Ocean: Helen M. Rozwadowski, Belknap: 2005. 304 pp. $25.95, £16.95, €24 0674016912 | ISBN: 0-674-01691-2; The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist, Carol Grant Gould Shearwater: 2004. 416 pp. $30 1559638583 | ISBN: 1-559-63858-3; Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, Brad Matsen, Pantheon: 2005. 286 pp. $25 0375422587 | ISBN: 0-375-42258-7
Hidden depths: Fathoming the Ocean: Helen M. Rozwadowski, Belknap: 2005. 304 pp. $25.95, £16.95, €24 0674016912 | ISBN: 0-674-01691-2; The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist, Carol Grant Gould Shearwater: 2004. 416 pp. $30 1559638583 | ISBN: 1-559-63858-3; Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, Brad Matsen, Pantheon: 2005. 286 pp. $25 0375422587 | ISBN: 0-375-42258-7
Deep-sea science is big science. Ocean covers 365 million square kilometres, and most of it is more than two kilometres deep. To understand what goes on down there, you need a ship to brave the high seas and equipment that can reach into the abyss. As today's researchers agonize over grant proposals and publication records, some may yearn for the time when they could chart the depths without worrying about tenure or research assessment exercises. But as these three books charting the history of deep-sea science reveal, that golden age never existed.
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Copley, J.
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Copley, J.
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Copley, J.
(2005)
Hidden depths: Fathoming the Ocean: Helen M. Rozwadowski, Belknap: 2005. 304 pp. $25.95, £16.95, €24 0674016912 | ISBN: 0-674-01691-2; The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist, Carol Grant Gould Shearwater: 2004. 416 pp. $30 1559638583 | ISBN: 1-559-63858-3; Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, Brad Matsen, Pantheon: 2005. 286 pp. $25 0375422587 | ISBN: 0-375-42258-7.
Nature, 435, , [7040].
(doi:10.1038/435279a).
Abstract
Deep-sea science is big science. Ocean covers 365 million square kilometres, and most of it is more than two kilometres deep. To understand what goes on down there, you need a ship to brave the high seas and equipment that can reach into the abyss. As today's researchers agonize over grant proposals and publication records, some may yearn for the time when they could chart the depths without worrying about tenure or research assessment exercises. But as these three books charting the history of deep-sea science reveal, that golden age never existed.
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