The Deepest Map - The High-Stakes Race To Chart The World's Oceans
Just finished reading "The Deepest Map - The High-Stakes Race To Chart The World's Oceans" by Laura Trethewey, published by Harper Wave.
Mention the ocean and most people will automatically think of the copious amounts of waves that crash against the shoreline of a beach somewhere in the world without giving much thought to the landscape beneath the waves. So it shouldn't be surprising that only under slightly 20-percent of topography of the world's oceans has been mapped to any degree of reliable certainty , and even the deepest point measured, the Challenger Deep may not exactly be the deepest point on the planet. Humanity really does know less about the planet's oceans and we know more about the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, Venus, Titan, Ceres, and a few other asteroids and comets.
Even through there is a global goal of mapping the world's oceans by 2030, it's unlikely that particular goal will be met.
Yet, while Trethewey is a strong advocate for protecting and exploring oceans, she doesn't exactly provide the scope and excitement of those scientists and explorers who are trying to expand the frontiers of the last unexplored regions on the planet. But she is able to provide some insight into the "closed, not for public group" that is responsible for naming ocean features that ironically is funded by governments, who are in turn funded by the public.
A good, solid, but too short accounting of the mapping the deep.
Recommended.
Four Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Deepest-Map-Hi...
Mention the ocean and most people will automatically think of the copious amounts of waves that crash against the shoreline of a beach somewhere in the world without giving much thought to the landscape beneath the waves. So it shouldn't be surprising that only under slightly 20-percent of topography of the world's oceans has been mapped to any degree of reliable certainty , and even the deepest point measured, the Challenger Deep may not exactly be the deepest point on the planet. Humanity really does know less about the planet's oceans and we know more about the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, Venus, Titan, Ceres, and a few other asteroids and comets.
Even through there is a global goal of mapping the world's oceans by 2030, it's unlikely that particular goal will be met.
Yet, while Trethewey is a strong advocate for protecting and exploring oceans, she doesn't exactly provide the scope and excitement of those scientists and explorers who are trying to expand the frontiers of the last unexplored regions on the planet. But she is able to provide some insight into the "closed, not for public group" that is responsible for naming ocean features that ironically is funded by governments, who are in turn funded by the public.
A good, solid, but too short accounting of the mapping the deep.
Recommended.
Four Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Deepest-Map-Hi...
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