Secrets of the Ocean Realm

by Michele Hall and Howard Hall

Book Overview

A photographic celebration of the spectacular drama of exotic marine creatures' lives and the otherworldly beauty of the deep-sea ecosystems that shelter them, Secrets of the Ocean Realm is based on a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786704535
• ISBN13: 9780786704538
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 2.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.1" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

10 stars for this book

This is one of the best books I have ever read about the underwater world. Incredibly beautiful underwater photography of high quality. The photos do not only depict animals swimming around but, for example, sarcastic fringehead males in a showy territorial "fight," close up. I also like the authors' sensible view about animals and diving in the ocean. No show-off accounts of near-shark-escapes but an honest experience, mostly good but sometimes scary, of working under water. The authors recount some extraordinary events, such as a ride on a manta after freeing him from entangling fishing nets, or unexpectedly finding themselves surrounded by a school of fish that is being slaughtered by marlins. With this book we get a wonderful view into the ocean world but also a fascinating account of what it is like spending many hours a day waiting, scouting, decompressing, refilling tanks and back to waiting so one can capture a never seen one-minute event on film that made it worth all the work.