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The narrative frames survival as a reason to protect nature, then moves through vivid underwater observations of marine predators, kelp forests, and strange sea life, including detailed behavior and sensory immersion. It culminates in a tense final dive moment, when exhaustion, cold, and a sudden appearance of tentacled arms drive the action.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAbout the Author  \nSteve Backshall MBE, PhD, Msc, BAhons, FRGS is the six-time BAFTA award-winning naturalist, who in 2020 was named ‘Explorer of the Year ’ by the Scientific Exploration Society. His Deadly 60 programmes are shown in 160 countries around the world. He is patron or president of 15 different wildlife, conservation and young person charities. Originally an author, then Adventurer in Residence for the National Geographic, Steve has visited 116 countries, described new species of animal, had a frog species named after him, and led first ascents of mountains, descents of unnamed rivers, mapped uncharted cave systems, discovered a 100-metre waterfall in the jungles of Suriname, and dived to take the first light into sunken cave passages in Yucatan. Steve is a professional diver and freediver, with more than 3,000 dives on every continent. He lives by the Thames in Berkshire, England with his wife, double Olympic gold medallist Helen Glover MBE, and their three children Kit, Bo and Logan.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAlso by Steve Backshall  \nExpedition Looking for Adventure Mountain: A Life on the Rocks  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nSteve Backshall  \nDEEP BLUE  \nMy Ocean Journeys  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nAbout the Author  \nPrologue  \nIntroduction  \nChapter One – In the Beginning  \nChapter Two – Abyss  \nChapter Three – Seal Seas  \nChapter Four – Polar Predator  \nChapter Five – The Bounty  \nChapter Six – Survivors  \nChapter Seven – Great White Hope  \nChapter Eight – In Cold Blood  \nChapter Nine – Spineless Wonders  \nChapter Ten – Coral Symphony  \nChapter Eleven – Gentle Giants  \nChapter Twelve – Pod Life  \nChapter Thirteen – Uncharted Seas  \nAcknowledgements  \nIndex  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo Logan, Kit and Bo,  \nfor the life of exploration you have before you.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nFor most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realise that, in order to survive, he must protect it.  \nJacques-Yves Cousteau  \nThe den was a sliver of a hole beneath a fridge-sized boulder, the welcome mat a litter of king crab carcasses, carapaces like spiky dinner plates, broken claws once stout enough to clip off a human thumb.  \nIt was our fifth day of diving in the chilly waters off Vancouver Island, waiting outside this same den for the inhabitant to show itself. Less scrupulous voyeurs have pumped washing-up liquid or engine fuel into the cracks to force an occupant to emerge. We were sticking to ethical means: a raw prawn, proffered between my gloved fingers as bait. The hope was that the scent would waft into our quarry’s home and draw him out, like fresh ground coffee coaxes the cranky human from their bed.  \nAll of our dives had been spent like this; just lying on the bottom for about an hour until our air ran dry and we were blue with cold. On one dive a mighty wolf eel had come to investigate my prawn. Wolf eels are the largest of the blennies, which are usually the tiddler fish you find in rock pools. These, though, are gargantuan purple speckled beasts, hilariously  \nugly, with two metres of moray eel-esque body ending in a troll’s head. Messy long thin teeth spilled out of its mouth, as it first took the proffered prawn, then proceeded to devour a sea urchin whole in front of me. It looked like a toddler trying to eat a hedgehog.  \nThe next day I was at the surface in a kayak, as killer whales danced about me, spinning, pirouetting and breaching, a huge bull giving me a flyby so close I could have run my hand down his flank, his mighty black dorsal fin towering over my head.  \nAnd on the murkiest dive of the trip, when visibility was down to less than two metres of green soup, a group of maybe 20 Steller sea lions came calling. 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