Books & Media

In Deeper, filmmaker Jennifer Peedom follows Dr Richard Harris—renowned cave diver and anaesthetist, best known for his role in the Tham Luang cave rescue—on a descent into New Zealand’s Pearse Resurgence. 

How to read the wrecks beneath your fins.

In Reefs of Time, geoscientist and science educator Lisa S. Gardiner offers a compelling and accessible exploration of how fossil coral reefs can inform our understanding of the threats facing reefs today. 

This 318-page volume explores the intricate interplay between natural processes and anthropogenic stressors, including climate change, overfishing, aquaculture, pollution, and coastal urbanisation.

Marine ecologist Dr Drew Harvell explores the remarkable adaptations of spineless creatures, taking us on dives from Indonesia to St Croix and from the Salish Sea to Hawaii to meet corals tougher than steel, sponges producing disease-fighting chemicals and sea stars maintaining coastal ecosystems.

In this book, David Attenborough and Colin Butfield deliver a compelling call to protect the world’s oceans. Blending personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, they reveal the oceans’ vital role in shaping climate, supporting life and producing the air we breathe. 

Oceans by Simon Papps, a lavish, illustrated edition from Reed New Holland’s Deluxe natural history series

Freshwater and Marine Ecology by Ulrich Sommer, a researcher at GEOMAR and Editor-in-Chief of Marine Biology, introduces aquatic ecology by integrating limnology and biological oceanography. 

Into the Great Wide Ocean: Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth by Sönke Johnsen reveals the open ocean as a vast, challenging environment teeming with life—from giant squid to bioluminescent anglerfish.

This unique narrative biography explores shark biology, ecology and behavior while highlighting their cultural significance.