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Deep Descent
by McMurray- Kevin F
On a foggy July evening in 1956, the Italian cruise liner Andrea Doria, bound for New York, was struck broadside by another vessel. In eleven hours, she would sink nearly 250 feet to the murky Atlantic Ocean floor. Thanks to a daring rescue operation, only 51 of more than 1,700 people died in the tragedy. But the Andrea Doria is still taking lives. Considered the Mt. Everest of diving, the Andrea Doria is the ultimate deepwater wreck challenge. Over the years, a small but fanatical group of extreme...
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Oceanography Books & Ephemera
Oceanography (2nd ed)
by Gross, M. Grant
Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly blue pictorial covers, viii, 150 pp, many two-color figures, chapter references, index. Covers creased, old price blacked out on half-title. Concise college textbook. Contents: Earth--the water planet; the ocean floor; deep-sea sediment; water & its properties; seawater--a salt solution; the open ocean; ocean currents; waves & tides; the coastal ocean....
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SGD 27.56
Wonders of the Great Barrier Reef
by ROUGHLEY, T.C
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Fifty-two color photographs. Gift inscription, else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some modest chips and tears.
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SGD 27.57
KristineBerg marine Biological Station 1877-1977; Centenary Symposium On Deep-Sea Faunas- History, Differentation, and Adaptation. 14-17 August 1977
by Stromberg J.O. & H. Brattstrom
SARSIA, 1977. Book. Very Good. Paperback. VG softcover w/blue lettering. Previous owner's name stickers to front cover, otherwise text clean/unmarked. Pages all clean. Mild edgewear & crease to corner. Binding solid. Black/white plates to rear. 136 pp + plates. Rare..
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SGD 64.80SGD 58.32
Oceanography in South Africa / Oseanografie in Suid-Afrika
Published on behalf of the South African National Committee for Oceanographic Research (SANCOR) by the Pub. Division, CSIR, 1977-01-01. Unknown Binding. Fair/No Jacket. 76 pages (complete). In Afrikaans and English. A sadly stored copy. At some stage the book has been subjected to damp conditions. Nonetheless the consequences are far from catastrophic! The covers have some marks, some wrinkling, some wear. They are secure. Within, the pages have damp storage wrinkles and marks - particularly...
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SGD 12.41
Wake of the Whale
by Brower, Kenneth
Friends of the Earth, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used Book: Hard Cover General wear with some rubbing to dust jacket, a couple small tears at jacket corners.
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SGD 19.99
The Eternal Darkness, A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration
by Ballard, Robert D. with Will Hively
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Used Book: Hard Cover Light wear.
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SGD 15.86
Oceanography: A View of the Earth
by Gross, M. Grant
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1982. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition, 1982. Quarto, hardcover, 498 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, waviness to some pages, no dust jacket.
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SGD 29.30
ONE THOUSAND METRES DOWN : True Adventures Under the Earth
by Cadoux, Jean; Et. Al.; (Andre Bourgin, Preface)
New York, NY: A.S. Barnes, 1957. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Yellow linen boards/NF w/trace edge discoloration. DJ/NF; light edge wear & discoloration to spine; under mylar. English translation of the 1955 exploration the French cave Gouffre Berger (discovered in 1953 by Joseph Berger). The cave is located in the Sornin Plateau, high above Grenoble in the Vercors. A milestone in caving by team of resolute young men...
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SGD 31.02
The Atlantic
by Outhwaite, Leonard
Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1957, first edition. 479 p. with index. very good/ dust jacket slightly chipped and creased with minor tears at corners. Story of the structure of the ocean, currents and the process of discovery of its behavior. The various early ships and passages on the Atlantic.
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SGD 15.14
Fuller Projective-Transformation
by FULLER, Buckminster & SADAO Shoji
Philadelphia. Broadside. 19 1/2 x 13 inches. Some scuffing and rust marks and stamp remnants, otherwise in good condition.<br/><br/> Broadside manifesto with two colums of text and 17 diagrams that accompanied the Dymaxion Air ocean World Map. Fuller claims that his patented Dymaxion map will benefit air travel as much as "the Mercator map was appropriate to the square rigged east-west sailings with the Trade Winds closely paralleling the Equator, around which the Mercator projection...
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SGD 137.87
Recent Advances and Issues in Oceanography
by Nichols, C. Reid And Porter, David Larsen And Williams, Robert G
Greenwood Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 1573564060 . Exlibrary with usual library markings. ; 409 pages .
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SGD 33.09
American Seashells; The Marine Molluska of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America
by Abbott, R. Tucker
Van Nostrand Reinhold. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0442202288 . Exlibrary with usual library markings. ; 663 pages .
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SGD 89.62
Nonsuch: Land of Water.
by Beebe, William
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, 1932. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 259 pages, color frontispiece and 46 halftone plates. Pictorial endpapers. In original blue cloth, no dust jacket.
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SGD 68.94
Coral Fishes: Their Care and Maintenance
by RAVENSDALE, T
New York: Pet Library, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Some light rubbing browning to foredges. Dustwrapper is worn along panel edges and spine ends.
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SGD 27.57
A chart exhibiting the normal course & velocity of the tidal current at ebb in Boston Harbor
by BACHE, A.D. & U.S. COAST SURVEY
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1851. unbound. Sea chart. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 7.5 x 9 inches.<br/> <br/> This fantastically detailed sea chart issued by the United States Coast Survey in 1851 beautifully depicts the Boston Harbor and tidal currents. It extends as far north as Nahant, as far south as Petticks Island, to Hull, and as far west as Boston.The map is in good condition, with minor toning.<br> <br> Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an...
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SGD 137.87
MARINE TURBULENCE: Theories, Observations and Models
by Baumert, Helmut Z., John H. Simpson, and Jurgen Sundermann (Editor)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. ...the first book to give a comprehensive overview of measurement techniques and theories for marine turbulence and mixing processes. It describes the processes that control the mixing of greenhouse gases, nutrients, trace elements and hazardous substances in our oceans and shelf seas - from local to planetary scales. These processes buffer climate changes and are of vital importance for regional and global ecosystem...
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SGD 82.72
Sea Creatures
by Elia, Doron
Haifa Museum. Very Good. 1998. Paperback. 46 pages .
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SGD 24.82
Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life
by Carson, Rachel L
NY: Mentor (#M128), 1955. (1st thus). Paperback. VERY GOOD+. tight, bright covers, yellowed pages, clean, slight flare. Lamination coming loose on back cover. "the magic combination of sea-lore and wonder, of science and poetry. Which has won for The Sea Around Us its extraordinary success."
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SGD 21.99
Tidal Energy
by Charlier, Roger Henri
John Wiley & Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0442244258 . Exlibrary with usual library markings. ; 351 pages .
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SGD 33.09
Recommended Procedures for Measuring the Productivity of Plankton Standing Stock and Related Oceanic Properties
by The Biological Methods Panel Committee on Oceanography
Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1969. Softcover. Good+/No Jacket. Used Book: Soft Cover Staplebound, 59 pages. Rubbing to covers with some moderate scuffing at corners.
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SGD 15.86
Adventures in Ocean Exploration From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noah's Flood
by BALLARD, Robert D
Washington DC: National Geographic, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Quarto, 288pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, in like dust jacket. Gentle bumping to corners. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Ballard on the half-title page: "To Van, From one sailor to another. Robert Ballard.
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SGD 103.40
Galatheas Jordomsejling 1950-52 (Galathea circumnavigate the world 1950-52. The Danish deep sea work and results described by the participants)
by Bruun A.F., SV. Greeve, H. Mielche, R. Sparck
J.H. Schultz Forlag, 1953. Book. Good. Paperback. Good only pictoral softcover. Clear tape to binding. Edges chipped and heavily worn w/a few short tears. Previous owner's bookplate to inside cover. PO's stamp to FFEP, else pages all clean/unmarked. Fold-out map to rear. Photos throughout. 305 pp..
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SGD 58.59SGD 52.74
World Beneath the Sea
by Dugan, James
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society. Good. 1969. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 204 pages; DJ with lightly rubbed edges and scuffing at rear panel otherwise little wear to note Book solid clean and tight Photos illustrate throughout Index; BX199 .
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SGD 23.89
Depths, Sediments and Faulting on Each Side of the Rongotai Isthmus, Wellington (NZOI Oceanographic Summary, No.11 April 1976)
by Lewis K.B., L. Carter
NZOI, 1976. Book. Good +. Staplebound. Good+ peach softcover stapled wraps w/black lettering. Moderate marginalia and some pencil shading to text. Some fading to covers. Binding solid. 31 pp..
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SGD 33.09SGD 29.78
Oceanography, the Past
by Sears, Mary & Merriman, Daniel Joint editors - Related Names: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; International Congress On The History Of Oceanography (3rd : 1980 : Woods Hole, Mass. )
New York : Springer-Verlag, 1980. First Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 812 pages; Description: xx, 812 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Oceanography--History--Congresses. Includes bibliographies and index.
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SGD 124.08
