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The Official Companion Volume to the 3-D, Giant-Screen Film Join Titanic Director James Cameron and A Crew of Nasa Scientists and Marine Biologists on an extraordinary mission to document Earth's most extreme environment. Aliens of the Deep plunges deep below the sea to explore hydrothermal vents, where mineral-charged water spews from the Earth's crust and helps support thriving communities of football-sized clams, eyeless shrimp, rod-tipped tube worms, and lavish layers of microbes. These extraordinary animals are as close to alien life as anything seen on Earth, and offer tantalizing clues about the life that might exist elsewhere in our solar system. Veteran ocean explorer and writer Dr. Joseph Maclnnis follows Cameron and his crew as they overcome technical and physical challenges to provide an astonishing view of an extreme world and dream about one day exploring oceans-and life-beyond Earth.MacInnis, Joe is the author of 'James Cameron's Aliens Of The Deep Voyages To The Strange World Of The Deep Ocean', published 2005 under ISBN 9780792293439 and ISBN 0792293436.
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