James Cameron's Aliens of the Deep: Voyages to the Strange World of the Deep Ocean

by Joseph MacInnis

Book Overview

A companion volume to the new 3-D giant-screen film follows a team of scientists as they explore the deep ocean vents of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, offering readers a view of life in Earth's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792293436
• ISBN13: 9780792293439
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Underwater Volcanoes

This is a great Earth Science video for showing under water volcanoes and all the hard work that goes into exploring them as well as the dynamic deep sea life around the volcanoes. Cameron at his best! Video goes well with CA Earth Science High School Standards.

Amazing sights

This is a marvelous documentary which takes you to the ocean floor and shows you things you would never see otherwise. Amazing shots of alien-like creatures which inhabit those depths. The bright young scientists in this documentary add greatly to this film.

A fine acquisition for any collection strong in science

James Cameron provides the introduction to his companion volume to the 3-D giant-screen film Aliens Of The Deep, which probes miles below the sea to volcanic hot spring vents serving as the homes for unexpected life. These vents were unknown until 1977 and today remain largely unexplored: the high-resolution photography brings what's known of this world to vivid visual life, and the companion book packs in pages of text to supplement the full-page color photos. Both public and school libraries will consider it a fine acquisition for any collection strong in science.

Beautiful Pictures From a World So Near and Yet So Far

This is the companion volume to the 3-D, Giant-Screen Film. The nice thing about having these pictures in book form is that they don't flash by the screen and disappear. And of course, the quality of the pictures had better be good. Some reviewers have complained about the quality of these images. I do not agree. These pictures are supurb. The fact that they exist at all is amazing. Then you have to realize that they are taken a mile or two or three below the surface of the ocean. It's a long ways down there, you can't spend long there, and you are shooting the picture through water. And the pictures you are taking are of things that man has never seen before, at one point they counted 500 newly identified species. I also liked the occassional reference to the way this is not unlike space exploration, one comment, "piloting a mini-sub at 12,000 feet is very similar to flying a spacecraft to another planet. You must be prepared for isolation and the risk of losing your life." Thank you guys for going down there, I don't believe I want to go with you. I'll just look at the pictures.

Aliens of the deep

This is a must read for all divers. If you have no Imax this is it but see the 3d and have the book set it all off. A great book to add to my diving books. Great for teachers to use in class as a reference or add to reading list. So much water so little time.