![]() ![]() The practical need having been so clearly established, the governments of the United States and of other leading sea powers began to devote increasing effort to the scientific study of the sea. We knew even less about the dynamics of the sea in motion, although the ability to predict the actions of tides and currents and waves might easily determine the success or failure of military undertakings. We had only the most rudimentary notions of the geography of that undersea world over which our ships sailed and through which submarines moved. The awakening of active interest in the exploration of the sea came during the Second World War, when it became clear that our knowledge of the ocean was dangerously inadequate. Not even the mighty technological developments of this, the Atomic Age, have greatly changed this situation. It is a realm so vast and so difficult of access that with all our efforts we have explored only a small fraction of its area. ![]() THE SEA HAS ALWAYS challenged the minds and imagination of men and even today it remains the last great frontier of Earth. GET FANTASTIC DEALS ON BESTSELLING EBOOKSĪll others in the exploration of the sea ContentsĪcknowledgments Preface to the 1961 Edition ![]()
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