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Dive!: The Story of Breathing Underwater

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DIVE! is a fascinating introduction to the comprehensive world history of diving by award-winning artist Chris Gall.

How do you breathe underwater? What tools can we use to go deeper and deeper into the oceans? And...what's down there?

Two-thirds of our Earth is covered in ocean, yet only 5% of it has been explored.

DIVE deep into our long history of sea exploration to learn why, how, and when humans have dived, and uncover our biggest questions about what hides in the Earth's deepest waters.

Perfect for STEM-oriented minds and young and old readers fascinated by the sea, Dive! is a must-have to add to any nonfiction shelf.

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ISBN-13:	9781250823953
Publisher:	Roaring Brook Press
Publication date:	04/09/2024
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	650,048
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Chris Gall has been a certified diver for more than 20 years. He once encountered a manta ray bigger than a car, but has only seen one shark, and it happened to be asleep in an undersea cave. He is the award-winning author and illustrator of such books as Dinotrux, Substitute Creacher, Dog vs. Cat, and many others. His nonfiction books include Go For the Moon, Jumbo, and Big Rig Rescue. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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★ "An excellent addition for most STEAM collections." - Booklist, starred review

"Dramatic deep-sea settings and naturalistic flora and fauna are worth lingering over." - Kirkus Reviews

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2024-02-03
An overview of undersea venturing, from ancient sponge diving to explorations with modern submersibles.
Gall pairs a stodgy recitation of names and basic facts with cleanly drawn depictions of early diving suits and other gear down through the ages—beginning with hollow reeds used by ancient Greek divers and ending with an out-of-scale Alvin submarine cruising past the wreck of the Titanic. All are depicted being used or tested by a racially diverse cast of frozen-faced divers, inventors, and bridge construction workers. Along with livelier views of brightly colored sea life both real and fanciful, he also mixes in anatomical diagrams to illustrate the effects of pressure and compression. Throughout, Gall depicts a biracial family—oddly stony of mien, like the other humans—preparing for adventurous vacations, exploring a coral reef, and conducting simple science demonstrations. Both the evolving technology on display and the dramatic deep-sea settings and naturalistic flora and fauna are worth lingering over. But for readers seeking more vivid and detailed pictures of the dangers and discomforts of undersea exploration, Aly Brown’s The Last Unexplored Place on Earth (2023) makes a grand follow-up. A perfunctory list of information sources is appended, along with a warning about the hazards of climate-warming oceans and, less tangentially, general remarks on diver training and careers at the end.
Immersive visuals, weighed down by a leaden text. (glossary, fun facts, author’s note) (Informational picture book. 7-10)

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