This book will be welcomed by adult readers, young, old, or somewhere in between. Young adults with a general interest in science will especially enjoy it.

Each chapter contains an essay on a topic in marine science. Some are short, some are long, some are tongue-in-check, while others are deadly serious. The essays span classic science to newer findings.

Aimed at students from 14 to 24 this book will help exemplary students interested in marine biology, enticing, with a hoard of information, but in small packets. From quick and easy glances at the marine biology world, to tougher concepts of ecology, this series of essays spans the breadth of the ocean world. Somewhere in here are the ideas for your project, your research paper focus, or your eventual thesis. Dive in.