Poised For a “Deep” Conversation With Your Kids
Here’s a great promotional site that is wonderfully informative and has the illustrated accounts of the underwater travels of author and journalist, Claire Nouvian, into some of the deepest depths captured on film. Her book, “The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss” is filled with great shots of wonderfully surreal sea creatures like dumbo octopuses, vampire squids, naked sea butterflies, spookfish, and pigbutt worms.
In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space on Earth where life can develop. And the deep sea, which has been immersed in total darkness since the dawn of time, occupies 85% of ocean space, forming the planet’s largest habitat. Yet these depths abound with mystery. The deep sea is mostly uncharted”only about 5 percent of the sea floor has been mapped with any reasonable degree of detail—and we know very little about the creatures that call it home. Current estimates about the number of species yet to be found vary between ten and thirty million. The deep sea no longer has anything to prove; it is without doubt Earth’s largest reservoir of life.” ~ TheDeepBook.Org
This site and the book it promotes sounds like a perfect thing to spawn some wonderful conversations with your kids about the real and imaginary.
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
