marine scientists

A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores - when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster - when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations. The penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.

After an undersea lab conducting research on a rare jellyfish known as the blue medusa mysteriously disappears and a bathysphere harboring Joe Zavala is attacked by an underwater vehicle, Kurt austin puts the NUMA team on the case.

Provides brief biographical profiles of nearly 150 men and women, from antiquity to the present, who have made significant contributions to the field of marine science.

Identifies specific scientists and their contributions to advances and discoveries in marine science.

Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, is called in to stop a shadowy multinational corporation that is trying to gain control of the seas and killing anyone who tries to stop it.

Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Assignments Team face a daunting task--saving all life on Earth--when an anti-globalization group decides to send a message to the world's industrialized nations by artificially triggering a polar shift.

A team of marine scientists discovers a previously unknown predatory species that is being forced into the open, where they threaten all of humanity.

Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are off on a high-stakes adventure when the NUMA team is assigned to find the link between a missing top-secret, government-sponsored undersea lab that had been testing viral weaponry and an attack on a bathysphere near Bermuda that nearly killed Zavala and everyone else aboard.