Below the Waves: Diving on the Hawaiian Reef E-Book

Emily M.

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Diving on the Hawaiian Reef: is a stylized photography-based educational book about various ocean life found off the Hawaiian coast. This is a fact-based book that educates about native Hawaiian sea life. The photos have all been taken off the coast of Oahu in Hawaii. Enjoy beautifully stylized photos of underwater marine life paired with interesting and fun facts about the critters featured. 

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Emily M., Caleb Smeikes

Below the Waves: Diving on the Hawaiian Reef

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BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Welcome!

Hello,

My name is Emily and I am the author behind many of the beautiful and educational books you can find through our brand. I would like to be the first to welcome you to our brand. Our organization is more than just a book publisher. We are actually a collection of educators, tech wizards, and explorers. I grew up as an only child in a military family. Always moving around meant very long and very boring trips often. To keep my mind busy, I always loved to read. Even from a young age, I loved the idea that a story can take you as far away as you allow it to. I also began to develop a passion for photography. Always moving meant it was important for me to document what I saw around myself before it changed again. As I got older, I became an educator, but I never forgot how powerful photos can be in helping inspire dreams and spur imagination and made sure to include them whenever possible while teaching.2020 has turned out to be a very challenging year for the majority of the world, and I was no different. Soon after the pandemic hit, I lost a job that I loved and was hugely passionate about. I felt lost and adrift in a time that was, quite frankly, pretty bleak. I walked my dog a lot during those early days of unemployment. I always enjoyed my outings, not only because it got me out of the house, but also because people were always happy to see my dog. Wherever we went, people smiled and seemed to come alive. This was my inspiration. I needed to get back out there and start doing good again. To tell stories that are fun and heartwarming. That was the inspiration for these books and our website. I thought we could do more. Allow for the reader to do more. Give readers not only good stories but ownership and creative control over their material in a way that hasn’t been done before. We are constantly trying to innovate. To allow readers to push the boundaries between art and reading. In doing so, we created Mymichelangelo.com.The TeamI also realized that I knew many people that could help create heartwarming and interesting books. I am fortunate to know a number of people from many walks of life, many of which had interesting stories to tell and engaging photographs to work with. Many of them are part time photographers. They are also divers, explorers, guides, and adventurers. I felt that they could all help tell great stories. Our content contributors live all over the globe and are international. Many more of their wonderful stories will be told in the coming months as their books are finished. Whether you are reading one of our pre-made books, opted to make a personal scrapbook, or even just ordered a stylized print of photos, we work hard to ensure our customers are able to engage with literature and art in new and creative ways.

Nudibranchs (Sea Slugs)

Scientific Name: Nudibranchia

Basic Animal Group: Mollusks

Size: Microscopic to 1.5 feet long

Weight: Up to just over 3 pounds

Lifespan: A few weeks to a year

Diet: Carnivore

Habitat: On seafloors all over the world, between 30 and 6,500 feet below the water surface.

Not all Nudibranchs are such bright colors many, however, are and have been given nicknames such as sea goddess, painted dancer, and many more that match their striking coloring. As far as science knows there are 3,000 different species of nudibranch. They are part of the mollusk group but lack a shell as adults, they do however have shells while in their larval stage. When they become adults, they lose the shell and rely on toxins or unpleasant tasting chemicals to keep predators away. They don’t call these guys sea slugs for anything; they are very slow-moving. Due to their slow pace, they need to be ready to mate wherever they manage to meet another of its species. Due to this, nudibranchs are what is known as hermaphrodites, so no matter who they meet they are ready to reproduce. Nudibranchs move on a flat, broad muscle called a foot, which leaves a slimy trail. While most are found on the ocean floor, some can swim short distances in the water column by flexing their muscles. Some even swim upside down.

Octopus

Scientific Name: Octopoda

Basic Animal Group: Mollusca

Size: 1/2 inches to 30 feet across

Weight: Up to 600 pounds

Lifespan: Unknown

Diet: Carnivore

Habitat: Oceans all over the world. Most are pelagic, meaning they live near the water's surface in other animals’ shells, reefs, and any small crevices they can find. Other species live on the ocean floor making their homes out of caves.

Octopi are spectacular, alien-like creates. They have three hearts that pump blue-green blood around their body. They have 8 tentacles that enable them to probe and manipulate with great dexterity. When in danger, they can switch to jet propulsion by blasting water through a muscular tube on the body called a siphon, and if needed they can eject an ink cloud to create confusion and darkness. Octopi are mostly soft and have few hard body parts (beak and eyes only). This means they are amazingly malleable creatures. Incredibly, they can actually thread themselves through openings not much larger than the diameter of its eyeball. On top of that, Octopi are the world's smartest invertebrates. Some studies have even compared their intelligence to that of a dog.