SECRETS OF THE SEA (Havets Hemligheter)

An underwater journey along the Norwegian coast

Forfatter(e): Erling Svensen & Bjørn Gulliksen
ISBN nummer: 9788293191407
Pris: kr 449,00
Språk: English
Format: Large format 25x29 cm, hardcover
Sider: 320 pages readable and informative, packed with photos.
Utgitt: 2016
Nivå: adult nonfiction
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The book takes you on an underwater journey along the Norwegian coast and brings you closer to nearly 300 species that live from the sea surface down to 50 meters deep. Large format, lots of large photos.Interesting details and a brief popular science text provides opportunities to get to know the unknown depths, both species and habitats.


CLEAN OCEAN
Recent research reports reveals frightening a lot of pollution and increased temperatures in the oceans. It is therefore an important point that the book primarily conveys virgin habitats (Habitat) that is not yet contaminated, neither of plastic garbage, sewage, mining tailings or other waste. Knowledge of habitats that are not heavily impacted by human activities, is very important to understand the extent and effects of pollution. It is important to understand that the ocean can not be used as bin and bin! Contamination can do irreparable hurt! By increasing knowledge about how healthy habitats should look like, it creates a greater public involvement working for clean seas and sustainable exploitation of resources in the marine environment.


IMPORTANT INDUSTRY
Marine Resources has given the living conditions of the people along the Norwegian coast since the last ice age. Fishing for cod, sprat to large marine mammals has been crucial for Norwegian economy for centuries, and in recent decades aquaculture has also been a very important industry. A new marine priority with potential is bioprospecting. Economically it can provide extremely lucrative opportunities in the coming years. To locate and harvest the valuable organisms, knowledge about the occurrence of the species and their living conditions in the habitats of vital importance.


Erling Svensen
from Egersund, Norway's leading underwater photographer with over 4000 dives and around 70,000 images of plants and animals. In this book presented his very best pictures, and essentially images that have not previously been published. All pictures were taken "in situ"; ie both plants and animals are in their right and natural environment. No organisms are manipulated or moved from their natural habitat to a more "photogenic" environment.


Bjørn Gulliksen
from Sandefjord, is professor emeritus at the University of Tromso. He graduated marine biologist with diving experience from 1964 and expeditions from 1968. He has worked in Arctic (Svalbard, Greenland, Canada), Antarctica (Ross Sea, Weddell Sea), California, Mexico, Chile and several European countries. Gulliksen working diver, several thousand dive and has written more than 200 articles / book manuscript which around 100 scientific articles in international journals. Author and photographer have together been involved in several research expeditions, both along the Norwegian coast and on Svalbard.