The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Mallory, Kenneth

Adventure Beneath the Sea: Living in an Underwater Science Station

48 pp. | Boyds | October, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59078-607-9 $18.95

(3) 4-6 Photographs by Brian Skerry. Mallory takes us through his training and subsequent week living aboard the Aquarius laboratory, currently located sixty feet underwater at a reef in the Florida Keys. He covers all aspects of life in the Aquarius, with a briefer discussion of his participation in a fish-tagging science project. Numerous excellent color photographs of the scientists and marine life accompany the text. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford