Into the Deep

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Deep Questions with Cal Newport, 24 August 2026. The book comes up at 58 min 54 sec in. Said by Cal Newport.

Cal Newport reports reading this memoir by oceanographer Bob Ballard, co-authored with New York Times writer Christopher Drew. He describes Ballard's deep-sea work: the first visual confirmation of plate tectonics, discovery of hydrothermal vents, and the finding of the Titanic — which, Cal Newport recounts, was a cover story for a classified Navy mission to inspect the sunken nuclear submarine Thresher. He calls it an interesting book.

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