pacific ocean

An illustrated biography of eighteenth-century English explorer Captain James Cook, which describes his voyages across the Pacific Ocean and his experiences in Australia and Hawaii.

Experienced traveler Robie, having decided to take a cargo plane from Honolulu to Midway Atoll after a visit with her aunt, struggles to survive with the co-pilot, Max, after the plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean and they are left on a raft in shark-infested waters with only one bag of Skittles.

Introduces the earth's largest ocean, and provides instructions for an activity to demonstrate how the tropical storms known as typhoons spin.

On a pleasure cruise in the Pacific, seventeen-year-old Susannah, her parents, seventeen-year-old cousin Martin, and eighteen-year-old crew member Axel face off against seventeen-year-old Jeremy, a drug lord's son, and hired killers Elwood and fifteen-year-old Shako.

Sixteen-year-old Pi, having spent an idyllic childhood in India as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family to start anew in Canada, but his life takes an unexpected turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena for company.

One-time adventurer turned middle-age father accepts an offer to join a new survival series and finds himself closer to the waters off the Mariana Trench where his nemesis, the megalodon shark lives while his wife, Terry, investigates the connection between the mega-shark and the mysterious whale beachings off Vancouver Island.

Explores the Pacific Ocean and discusses its history, natural resources, plant and animal life, and inhabitants who live along its shores.

Describes the physical characteristics, plant and animal life, explorers, and environmental problems of the world's largest ocean, the Pacific. Includes Internet links to web sites related to oceans.

Elmer Renner recounts how he and eight other shipmates from a U.S. Navy minesweeper off the coast of Okinawa managed to survive a deadly typhoon after their ship sank on September 16, 1945.

Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.