Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World

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A fascinating dive into the essential engine that drives our world. Czerski brings the oceans alive with compelling stories that masterfully navigate this most complex system. Gaia Vince Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced animals, weather and human history & culture. Czerski's] profound, sparkling global ocean voyage mingles history and culture, natural history, geography, animals and people. Andrew Robinson, Nature A dazzle of stories beautifully told…. Czerski argues throughout that to truly see the miraculous oceans, to understand and to feel our connection to them, is vital and integral to our history and our future. Her outstanding book advances that understanding and honours that connection. Her readers will see the seas anew.—Horatio Clare, Telegraph (UK)

Humans no longer needed to connect to the ocean mentally in the same way and so the habit was lost. Understanding the intricacies of the blue machine is no longer a matter of raw survival now that radio, radar, GPS, satellite phones, weather forecasts… AIS [Automatic Identification] and distress signals are taken for granted.

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By 2021, Helen Czerski tells us, CPRs had been towed for 7 million nautical miles, which would take them 326 times around the world. Someone – in this case a team of researchers in Plymouth – then needs to examine, classify and count the contents of each trawl. The world needs a 'David Attenborough for physics' and Helen Czerski is a prime contender - she's brilliant, clear, passionate, modern and inspiring. Emma Freud, BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends

Helen Czerski's fascinating new book casts the ocean as an extraordinary giant engine, and helps us grasp its complex physicsand its key role in climate change Graham Lawton, New Scientist Czerski is a wonderful writer ... Blue Machine really does change the way you see the world.' Daily Mail In Helen Czerski’s hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic.—Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea In this captivating and urgently needed book, Helen Czerski weaves a wonderful, watery spell, entwining spectacular science with poetic awe as she expertly guides readers through the workings of a vast, unfamiliar world. Moving and thrilling, The Blue Machine tells us about the seas but also makes us care: an epic love story that captures the ocean’s beating heart.—Jo Marchant, author of Cure and The Human Cosmos This is a book about the blue machine that drives our planet. We are taken on an intimate tour of the sea, it's layers, it's inhabitants from the smallest to the biggest, and how it effects our lives. I learned that salt - no matter how exotic it appears or where it comes from - is in fact all the same.

The term "Blue Machine" is a metaphor used to describe the Earth's oceans as a complex, interconnected system that plays a fundamental role in shaping our planet's climate, ecosystems, & even human civilisation.