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At the center of Deep Blue Home�a penetrating exploration of the ocean as single vast current and of the creatures dependent on it�is Whitty�s description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It�s a watery force connected to the earth�s climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race. Whitty�s thirty-year career as a documentary filmmaker and diver has given her sustained access to the scientists dedicated to the study of an astonishing range of ocean life, from the physiology of �extremophile� life forms to the strategies of nesting seabirds to the ecology of �whale falls� (what happens upon the death of a behemoth). No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the oceanside and underwater world from the Sea of Cortez to Newfoundland to Antarctica. In the Galapagos, in one of the book�s most haunting encounters, she realizes: �I am about to learn the answer to my long-standing question about what would happen to a person in the water if a whale sounded directly alongside�would she, like a person afloat beside a sinking ship, be dragged under too?� This book provides extraordinary armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home.