This Unknown Ocean: How Tides Work, Storms Are Born, and Invisible Creatures Live in the Depths of the Sea

“When I introduce myself as an oceanographer, people often think that I study the underwater world by diving under the water with a scuba tank, for example, like Jacques-Yves Cousteau. In fact, oceanography combines physics, chemistry, biology, geology, geography, mathematics,... and many other disciplines, because the ocean is a medium that is very complex to study, and humanity has not yet succeeded in overcoming this complexity. But it is trying very hard.” — A. Osadchiev, oceanographer

The book by popular Russian oceanographer Alexander Osadchiev, participant and leader of more than 30 marine expeditions, provides a general overview of oceanography and its related fields, such as marine biology, the physics and chemistry of the sea, marine geology, and others. You will read about how scientific marine expeditions are conducted, how scientists observe currents, water composition, bottom topographies, coastlines, and inhabitants of the seas and oceans. You will learn about the history of sea exploration and marine expeditions, disasters and records associated with the sea, and the impact of the sea on human life — the organization of transportation, the extraction of food products, and geopolitics.

This book is for those who love the sea and want to get to know this vast and beautiful world better!