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An outstanding STEM picture book documenting the transformation of an aircraft carrier that was gutted and turned into the world's largest artificial reef.
What happens when something designed to be unsinkable gets bombed to the bottom of the ocean floor? With careful preparation, new life can take root!
This incredible story brings young readers along on the journey of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany-the Mighty O-as it gets stripped down to a steel shell for a new life below the waves.
After 25 years of service, launching more aircraft than any other carrier of its time, the ship found a new mission as an artificial reef off the coast of Florida. The Mighty O was prepped and reefed by a team of more than 150 scientists, engineers, and technicians. Today, it is home to a flourishing variety of marine animals.
Designed to encourage regrowth and protect vulnerable marine life, artificial reefs are a crucial tool in the fight against overfishing, pollution, and warming water temperatures. Extensive back matter reveals more about the Mighty O's history, the diseases eating away at the world's natural reef systems, and the role artificial reefs play under the sea, and budding marine biologists will love poring over the exquisite illustrations.
Books for a Better Earth are designed to inspire children to become active, knowledgeable participants in caring for the planet they live on.
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A Science Friday Best Science Book For Kids
An ALA Top 10 Sustainability Themed Children's Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A Horn Book Fanfare Book
A CCBC Choices Book
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This picture book introduces the Mighty O, a decommissioned U.S. aircraft carrier that was purposefully sunk off the coast of Florida to create an artificial reef to help improve the surrounding ocean habitat. A combination of simple declarative sentences and sentence fragments describes the action in present tense, explaining how various types of ocean life need support, why a huge carrier makes a good substitution for a natural reef, and all the tasks that must be done to prepare the Mighty O for its new mission: severing cables and wires, and removing copper, fuel, oil, and paint. The ship is carefully sunk with explosives, ensuring that it ends up on the ocean floor upright, exactly situated to have the greatest impact. These preparations are minutely detailed in illustrations that show the multiple simultaneous actions taking place on board the Mighty O, effectively contrasting the calm underwater scenes as fish, urchins, mollusks, and other ocean critters take up residence. This unique title with generous back matter will appeal to environmentalists and big-boat enthusiasts alike.