underwater exploration

Jules Verne's classic nineteenth-century science-fiction tale about a French professor and his companions who are trapped aboard a futuristic submarine with a mad sea captain and come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.

Discusses how scientists use submersibles to explore the depths of the ocean, surveys the development, operation, and equipment of the Johnson-Sea-Link sub, and describes a typical dive to the bottom of the sea.

Explores the vastly unexplored world beneath the ocean's surface.

Examines the discovery and exploration of three shipwrecks, the Mary Rose, Concepci?n, and Titanic.

Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.

Sonia is looking for her missing cat, Victuals, when he reappears with a head full of stitches, and is able to speak, but has no memory of how he got that way. Both set out to solve the mystery of his disappearance. Which leads them to a kingdom under the waves and a royal power struggle.

Examines the origins and evolution of submarines, and features photographs and information about submarines that have been sunk and later found, from the Civil War "Hunley," to the Russian nuclear sub, the "Kursk.".

An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but it soon becomes obvious that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.

Author Clive Cussler discusses his real-life adventures as founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, focusing on twelve incidents in which the agency sought and found sunken ships, each prefaced by a creative dramatization of the ship and the way it met its end.