Mapping The Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science

In reading this immensely stimulating and informative book, it is striking to realize how much our knowledge of the oceans has changed and grown in the past fifty years, and how it is continuing to do so. So much for the notion that there is nothing left for science to do! I would recommend Kunzig's well-written account of these recent developments to anyone with even a slight interest in the subject.

The chapter on the collapse of the North Atlantic cod fisheries is enough to make anyone despair about the ability of human beings to look out for their own best interests.

A wonderful review of the history of the exploration of oceanic depths. I wish the author and editors had left climate change opinion exposition to Kunzig's other works, and for major distraction I am deducting a star.

This is such an interesting book, spanning such disparate topics as sea floor geology, things living on the sea floor - the middle of the ocean - the sea ridges, water currents, and commercial fishing. The topics seem unrelated, except for the common theme of the sea, but there is such an abundance of interesting and kind of obscure facts that I just kept wondering what I would be learning next. For anyone who would like to know more about the last earth frontier, I would highly recommend this work.

Just didn't capture my interest, couldn't concentrate. Maybe it's just me & where I'm at right now, and I should try again later - but I'm not going to.