Wonders of the Sea: NCC

Wonders of the Sea: North Central California's Living Marine Riches is a visual voyage beneath California's near-shore Pacific Ocean. Created by award-winning marine life photographer Marc Shargel, the book is a window onto some of the diverse marine life of California’s North Central Coast. His images allow you to embark upon a voyage of imagination, beyond the crash of waves on rocky shores and long arcing beaches, into the world of life beneath the sea. There you’ll find a rainbow of color and a diversity of forms on a par with the most wondrous biospheres on Earth.

From Point Arena in Mendocino County to Pescadero in San Mateo County and out to the Farallon Islands outside the Golden Gate, Wonders of the Sea takes you on a submarine voyage of discovery. Without the encumbrance of scuba equipment, or the chill of water hovering near 50 degrees Fahrenheit, you can enter a world without roads, wires, or even gravity. It is a world of life so different from what we find on land that it seems like another world. Yet it is a part of California.

Each of the ten areas described in the book is elegible to become a marine protected area this year through California's Marine Life Protection Act. One of my goals in creating this book has been to increase public awareness in California of just what lies beyond our shores and the incomplete, ongoing efforts to assure its conservation.

80 pages / 77 full-color images. $34.95 Order Now!

Marc Shargel is an award-winning marine life photographer. His diving career began in Central California in 1978. He has been making photographis in the sea since the 1980s. This is his first book.