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According to ocean-observing specialist Brian G. Whitehouse, the common view of the sea is based on perception, not fact. “If you want to convince yourself of this,” says Whitehouse, “just ask anyone how many oceans or seas there are. Even seasoned sailors cannot answer these basic questions with confidence, and for good reason.”

Dr. Whitehouse, who is the president of OEA Technologies Inc, just released a new book on the subject, entitled A Sense of the Sea: Our View of the Sea and How We Got It. Whitehouse says he admires the way Rachel Carson hooked the public on oceanography with her 1951 book The Sea Around Us, and that he wrote A Sense of the Sea to inspire people to reconnect with the sea. Within the book’s 228 pages, Whitehouse synthesizes key aspects of our present understanding of the sea, and differentiates this view from twentieth-century perceptions still held by most adults.

In the book’s forward, renowned oceanographer Walter Munk state’s “This volume offers Brian Whitehouse’s very personal relation to the oceans. Under the influence of his Navy father and a Dalhousie University PhD in Oceanography, Whitehouse developed a keen interest in what was learned about the oceans during and following WWII, and the people who did the work. This was the era when remote sensing from satellites revolutionized the way we monitored the global oceans.”

Additional details on the author are available here, and excerpts of the book can be accessed online.