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Date de parution

14 août 2014

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9781406283488

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

14 août 2014

EAN13

9781406283488

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

by Dennis Fertig

Women in Conservation

Sylvia Earle Ocean Explorer

Dennis Fertig

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Contents

Who is Sylvia Earle? ......................................

What inspired Earle? .....................................

How did Earle’s career begin?

....................... 12

What made Earle famous? ............................ 16

How did Tektite change Earle’s life?

.............. 22

How far has Earle explored? .......................... 26

How have Earle’s explorations helped to protect the oceans? .................................... 32

What does Earle worry about? ....................... 36

What impact has Earle’s work had on conservation? ......................................... 42

Timeline ...................................................... 44

Glossary ...................................................... 45

Find out more

............................................. 46

Index .......................................................... 48

Some words are printed in bold,like thiscan find out. You what they mean by looking in the glossary on page 45.

Who is Sylvia Earle?

When Sylvia Earle was 12 years old, her family moved to a house in Florida, USA, by the Gulf of Mexico. Earle had no idea then how important the Gulf would become to her. She quickly learned.

By the age of 13, Earle wore swimming goggles to explore the Gulf’s warm waters. At aged 16, she wore a diving helmet and reached the deep bottom of a river near the Gulf. A year later, she learned toscuba dive. This allowed her to discover the Gulf’s undersea secrets and, eventually, the secrets of the world’s oceans.

Earle’s dives were always about adventure, but they grew to be much more. Earle was a curious student of the seas – a natural scientist.

Sylvia Earle has spent her lifetime exploring the hidden beauty, wonder and secrets of the marine world.

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