Ultimate Ocean Encyclopedia

This is a visual encyclopedia of the world's seas and oceans. It combines photography with computer-generated images to explore every aspect of the marine world, from the submarines used to investigate the oceans to the wide variety of life that lives in them.

Readers can look at the plants and animals found in each ocean habitat, from the shoreline down to the deepest trenches. The sea life covered includes crustaceans, coral, anemones and every kind of fish, as well as mammals such as sea lions, dolphins and orcas, and giants such as the blue whale.

The book also looks at how humans have lived alongside the ocean for thousands of years, and at how our actions today could damage or protect the oceans in the years ahead.