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I just read <em>A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic</em> by Peter Wadhams (Cambridge Professor). He thinks we are past the tipping point and need to develop a way of pulling co2 out of the atmosphere.
I would recommend the book The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina a great book on the subject. The Guardian has a long read article by Urbina if you're curious, but unsure about buying the book. Either way- highly reccommended.
https://www.amazon.com/Atlantis-Antediluvian-World-Ignatius-Donnelly/dp/0486233715
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This one bangs. Plato and herodotus killing it
Good book on rogue waves: The Wave - Susan Casey https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767928857
They make a point in the book that rogue waves basically erase a container ship every two weeks from the face of the earth.
Welcome to your new rabbit hole .
There is some evidence of human civilization in coastal zones when the sea level was 400 feet lower
Graham Hancock embarks on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a mythical lost civilization hidden for thousands of years beneath the world’s oceans. Guided by cutting-edge science, innovative computer-mapping techniques, and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age and delivers astonishing revelations that challenge our long-held views about the existence of a sunken universe built on the ocean floor.
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400049512/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_M53CZV0Y8VGTK2PSPN6D
Not a book on SCUBA but I always recommend DEEP by James Nestor. It's non-fiction and very easy to read.
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves link
The book about this is titled "Moby Duck".
NPR story (32 min audio)
https://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134923863/moby-duck-when-28-800-bath-toys-are-lost-at-sea
Read Moby Duck if you're interested in the details along with all sorts of other interesting information.
Timestamped in this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1h48m20s&v=NY3Zg37nIHo
Book is Deep by James Nestor: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Freediving-Renegade-Science-Ourselves/dp/0547985525
A large number fall into the ocean each year. Generally, they go unreported unless large numbers (like 50+) fall off an individual ship.
One book that goes into some details of this is Moby Duck.
http://www.amazon.com/Moby-Duck-Beachcombers-Oceanograp-Environmentalists-Including/dp/0143120506
Was thinking this should be referenced:
http://www.amazon.com/Moby-Duck-Beachcombers-Oceanograp-Environmentalists-Including/dp/0143120506
> Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanograp hers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them
That Amazon link showed a "frequently bought together" that I came here to mention:
http://www.amazon.com/Flotsametrics-Floating-World-Obsession-Revolutionized/dp/0061558427
Or, really, I wanted to mention one of the authors, Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer. He's been studying ocean currents for decades by using rubber ducks and other things that have fallen off container ships.
He also has a quarterly newsletter, Beachcomber's Alert, for people interested in this sort of stuff. http://beachcombersalert.org/
How about this lovely book with pictures of deep sea creatures?
Here are some pictures from the book....
I recommend Deep by James Nestor
things mentioned in the writings: the release of the waters, the ancient and now dry rivers, temples offshore. all of these things that point to writing of things that happened before and during the last glacial maximum and the very rapid rise in sea level when ice dams broke during the glacial meltdown.
Hijacking top comment to point out that it looks like most of those images came from this book by Claire Nouvian, <em>The Deep</em>
That is amazing! Have you ever read The Deep? I was given it as a gift a few years a go and love it! There are hundreds of pictures of all sorts of strange deep-sea creatures. A lot of them are clear and light up. Definitely worth picking up if you find it on sale.