Discover a new kind of sea creature! Save a whale from a fishing net! Swim with the dolphins, seals, and sea lions! Marine biologists simply cant do their work cooped up in a lab they need to be out in the ocean, diving among the creatures they study. Inside, meet some world experts in marine biology and find out why they love their adventure-filled jobs.

Do you love being near the ocean? Do you love ocean animals? Read this book to learn about becoming a marine biologist.

"Frank and Joe are off to the Florida Keys to work alongside Lookout Shark Lab's Dr. E. Ella Edwards, one of the world's foremost marine biologists. On their first evening, Dr. Edwards paddleboards out to check on a lemon shark nursery. But after a sudden squall rolls in, she doesn't return, and the next day her board washes up with a shark bite taken out of it. The Hardys volunteer to help the search and rescue efforts as panic sparks a rift in Lookout...

Details the research interests and job responsibilites of marine biologists, and provides examples of how scientists have gone outside the lab to research seals, sharks, and deep-sea corals.

A profile of Dr. Sonny Gruber, a marine biologist who has been observing sharks for more than thirty years and who loves this risky occupation.

Explores the training, tools, and working environment of a marine biologist.

Follows a day's activities of a marine biologist as she studies and takes care of sea animals at an oceanographic institute.