Deep Blue Home

At the center ofDeep Blue Home is Julia Whitty's penetrating exploration of the World Ocean as a single body of water connected by a vast and powerful three-dimensional current encircling the globe. This undivided body of water profoundly controls and is controlled by Earth's climate; its fate determines our own. Whitty's careerfirst in science, later as a documentary filmmaker, and always as a writer and diverhas given her sustained access to the scientists dedicated to the study of an astonishing range of ocean life, from the physiology of "extremophile" life forms to the strategies of nesting seabirds to the ecology of "whale falls," or what happens in the afterlife of a behemoth. No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the oceanside and underwater world from the Sea of Cortez to Newfoundland to the Galapagos. Her book provides extraordinary armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home.