High Up Deep Down Ice Cold

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Armchair readers of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>High Up Rolling Sea Deep Down Ice Cold</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> will imagine themselves intimate explorers of Earth's most remote and forbidding places. You'll travel in the company of Peter Vogt an intrepid driven by his own nature to seek out extreme climates and locales. Vogt chased ice and climbed mountains and volcanoes on three continents before devoting himself to Earth's final frontier: the depths of the 71 percent of our planet that is ocean. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Following an unerring instinct for opportunity he trained at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) Cal Tech and the University of Wisconsin balancing physical science at its finest with the icy chill that always felt like home to him. As a student and ocean geologist primarily for the Naval Research Laboratory he voyaged from the Antarctic to the Arctic transversing all of Earth's six oceans seven continents thirty-one subcontinents and far-flung islands. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The voyages you'll share with Vogt are far from the high luxury of 21st century ocean liners. With one exception his teaching cruise along the equator on the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cunard Adventurer</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> to see the June 30 1973 total eclipse of the sun he traveled rough on working ships fitted for exploration enduring sea sickness bad food and ribald equatorial initiations. Ships ranged from the 400-foot-</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Glomar Challenger</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> to the tiny 25.5-foot-long Mir submersibles. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Most traveled the high seas with the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Glomar Challenger</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> lowering four miles of pipe core into seafloor sediments. Mir descended three miles to the floor of the Molloy Deep the Arctic Ocean's deepest spot.</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the 145-foot US submarine NR-1 Vogt was part of a crew motoring along the ocean floor at 3000 feet deep. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When ships couldn't do the job Vogt switched to airplanes zig-zagging over the Southern Hemisphere's night skies in the specially outfitted The Lockheed Constellation Paisano Dos (Lockheed NC-121K) to make land gravity measurements and monitor the reception of satellite navigation signals.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Over four decades he traveled 10 tomes around Earth at the equator to see our planet and show it to us in this book and historic global map The Dynamic Planet. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>See you aboard </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>High Up Rolling Sea Deep Down Ice Cold.</em></p>