Crowley County Combined Library

When Aster wakes on a tropical island, she has no idea how she got there. Where's her aunt -- and the teenagers from the ecovillage she was part of? Most importantly, where's her little sister, Poppy? As Aster frantically searches her surroundings, everything points to the sea and to a deep-water secret that's both important -- and impossible...

"Five oceans—the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Southern—cover approximately 70 percent of the earth. Yet we know little about what lies beneath them. By the early 2020s, less than twenty-five percent of the ocean’s floor has been charted, most close to shorelines, and over three quarters of the ocean lies in in what is called the Deep Sea, depths below a thousand meters. Now, the race is on to completely map the ocean’s...

"There are fish everywhere! Put on your diving goggles and plunge underwater. See rivers where salmon leap. Explore reefs where parrotfish munch on coral. You will even go deep beneath the surface of the ocean, where some fish make light with their bodies. The world of fish is fascinating and full of surprises." --

A team of explorers investigates the site of the sinking of the Titanic in order to make a more incisive determination of what transpired following the liner's fatal collision with an iceberg.

Describes different types of submarine vehicles and their development, discussing their various uses for military purposes, undersea exploration, and ocean research.

Tom and Julie must avoid sharks and smuggling pirates to collect the rare shells for the marine museum.

Hailed as a hero for the new millennium, Austin is the leader of NUMA's special assignments team--and the threat before him now is definitely special. A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser has forced Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men; but when they investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work.

Recounts the final moments of the crew, passengers and the ship itself when the Titanic struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912 and sank into the Atlantic.

Underwater drones help researchers find shipwrecks and learn more about ocean habitats. Deep-Sea Drones explains how these drones work and how they can be used to make scientific breakthroughs now and in the future

"Shipwrecked! is an adventure-filled nonfiction book for young readers about the most captivating shipwrecks from history. Combining new research, ... archival material, and vivid storytelling, [the book] dives deep into the world of marine archaeology and shows young readers what each discovery reveals about the world before our time"--