The Treasure Divers

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Treasure Divers: A Boy's Adventures in the Depths of the Sea The ingenuity of modern dredge makers, some light has been thrown upon that great mystery, the abysmal region of the sea. Investigators have probed the ocean bed four or five miles from the surface, and by means of dredges have ascertained that this region, where the temperature is just above freezing, where the pressure pow ders glass, is inhabited by marvellous animals adapted to the peculiar conditions, and en abled in many instances to communicate one with the other by means of phosphor escent lights. The object of the present volume is to present a vivid picture of life under the sea as it is now understood by the aid of the deep-sea dredging of the British ship Challenger, our own Alba tross, and the French ships Talisman and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.