Modern Marine Science
by
Lisa Yount
ISBN: 9781604130669
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
The deep sea takes up almost 70 percent of Earth's surface and more than 97 percent, by volume, of the part of the planet available to living things. And yet it was only in the 20th century that humans developed the technology to venture more than a few hundred feet down into this daunting world.