The Blue Wonder

Frauke Bagusche, Jamie McIntosh

Review by Henry L. Carrigan Jr.

In spite of the fact that seas cover more than 66% of our planet's surface, we've invested more energy and cash examining the dark blue of the stratosphere than we have plunging into the waters that lap at our shores, to our disservice. With an energetic love for and intense craving to teach us about the profundity of the sea's assets, just as about our absence of comprehension and botch of them, Frauke Bagusche's enrapturing The Blue Wonder: Why the Sea Glows, Fish Sing, and Other Astonishing Insights From the Ocean dives us into the secrets of the sea. En route, Bagusche shares accounts of the entrancing animals that abide there, just as the expanding threats the seas face from human abuse.

As Bagusche calls attention to, a significant number of us just see the sea from the sands of a sea shore and in this way never find the overflowing life and inconceivable creatures that swim underneath that surface. Directing perusers underneath the waves, Bagusche acquaints them with the microplankton that move, frequently in glowing schools, all through the waters, giving food to creatures from shrimp to blue whales. She takes us on an excursion to the coral reefs, the nurseries of the ocean, where we meet jokester mantis shrimp and find out about the members they create to assist them with adjusting the reefs. We additionally realize why a few oceans taste saltier than others and about the troublesome yet wondrous excursion of ocean turtles, the singing of whales and the goliath squids and isopods that are the inhabitants of the bathysphere, the sea's most profound and haziest waters. 

The Blue Wonder has its spot close by Carl Safina's Song for the Blue Ocean in uncovering the magnificent marine world and the earnest need to save an astonishing environment we over and over again disregard.