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Starting from the Qin Dynasty, the national treasure seal made of Heshibi is the symbol of the government and the only representative of the emperor's authority. Since the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial seal suddenly disappeared without any reason. Although Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Ming Dynasty searched many times, there was still no news. Hundreds of years later, young Zhang Guozhong was given a copy of Mao Shan Tu Zhi by chance, which accidentally became...
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Descending volume 6
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Continuing their Caribbean island hopping, the Descending team contemplates underwater art in Grenada, comes face to face with the ocean's largest carnivore in Dominica, and then goes deeper (1000+ ft!) than they ever have before.
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Descending volume 5
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While island-hopping in the Caribbean, Scott and Ellis meet the 'Dive God'. But there is trouble in paradise as the team learns of a poisonous, invasive species that threatens these beautiful blue waters.
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Descending volume 13
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Following a terrifying accident, the team's confidence is shaken. In Indonesia's Lembeh Strait, the mission is to film as many strange creatures as they can find. The team concludes their year-long journey on the remote island of Vanuatu to dive one of the greatest shipwrecks in the world and reflect on their underwater adventures.
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Descending volume 8
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Scott and Ellis are in Los Angeles to see if vibrant marine life can exist off the highly developed coast of Southern California. After meeting up with a pair of eco-warriors, the team scours the Sea of Cortez in search of the elusive and fearsome "diablos rojos".
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Descending volume 10
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History fanatic Scott talks Ellis into diving the shark-infested waters off the coast of the Solomon Islands. This tiny South Pacific nation played a strategic role during WWII and she still has the scars…and wrecks…to prove it.
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Descending volume 12
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In Indonesia, Scott and Ellis experience Raja Ampat – a reserve rich in beauty, diversity and culture. Ellis befriends a local Papuan who teaches him to fish like a local and the divers have a close encounter with Giant Manta Rays.
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Descending volume 2
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Scott and Ellis cross New Zealand's North Island to board a sunken cruise ship, push their limits in a cave dive, and are awestruck by the vibrant and healthy marine reserve at the Poor Knights Islands.
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Descending volume 11
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For centuries, the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes have shaped the story of Canada. The team takes a trip through history and visits the world's best collection of freshwater shipwrecks to discover what makes this water so great.
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Descending volume 7
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Scott and Ellis visit South Africa to face their fears and brave some of the most notorious shark-filled waters in the world. Disaster strikes on what should have been an easy shipwreck dive.
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Descending volume 1
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Seasoned travellers Scott Wilson and Andre Dupuis begin a new journey descending into the world beneath the waves. They travel to New Zealand to recruit friend and fellow explorer Ellis Emmett for the adventure. But equipment challenges and harsh weather impede the team's first dives.
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Descending volume 9
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Facing frigid waters, the Descending team travels to Iceland to witness the newest part of our planet being formed. Scott and Ellis touch two continents at once in some of the world's clearest water and attempt to dive where no one has gone before.
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Descending volume 3
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The team ventures to Djibouti to swim with the world's largest fish – the whale shark – but must then overcome frustrating travel challenges to get to Sudan and dive Cousteau's Conshelf II and a WWII wreck with a deadly cargo.
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Descending volume 4
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Scott brings Ellis and the Descending team home to Canada for some cold-water diving off Vancouver Island. Scott and Ellis make friends with some questionable creatures and then pilot a jet at 80ft below the surface. Above the water, the team is put to work preparing a ship for scuttling.
16) Marking Time
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2013
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Seventeen-year-old tagger Saira Elian can handle anything... a mother who mysteriously disappears, a stranger who stalks her around London, and even the noble English Grandmother who kicked Saira and her mother out of the family. But when an old graffiti tag in a tube station transports Saira to the 19th Century and she comes face-to-face with Jack the Ripper, she realizes she needs help after all.
Saira meets Archer, a charming student who
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In the 1980s, Shaanxi discovered a large-scale tomb of the warring States period, the tomb of Nantianyi, but the body of the coffin was a modern man. What is even stranger is that only a pair of funerary objects were missing from the numerous national cultural relics in the tomb. Why did grave robbers die in ancient tombs? What is the purpose of taking away the funerary objects? While his father Zhang Guozhong was in Hong Kong to solve Liao's affairs,...
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Taiping Rebellion Traditional Chinese lasted for 14 years, affecting 18 provinces and sweeping over more than half of China. More than a hundred years later, Zhang Guozhong's son Zhang Yicheng has been looking for ways to treat strange diseases for his classmates, but he found that his life has something to do with the events of a hundred years ago. In order to heal the sick and save the patient, he and his father Zhang Guozhong, teacher Liu Tou and...
19) Shifting Fate
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According to prophecy, Brianna Drake was born to save the world. Too bad for her that she doesn't have the slightest idea how. Her visions should have given her the answer but they're beginning to shift, making the danger too unpredictable, even for a prophet. If she can just help her sister restore their hidden powers, she might be able to stop what's coming. But an old enemy returns and he's got plans for Brianna and her gift. What neither side...
20) Tempting Fate
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2014
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Seventeen-year-old Clocker, Saira Elian is back on the run and being hunted by Mongers. The Descendants of War are amassing power in the 21st century, bent on controlling all the Immortal Descendants. Their attempt to kidnap Saira, a rare Descendant of Time and Nature, reveals just how brazen they've become. Archer, the vampire who has loved Saira for over a century, is willing to risk everything to protect her.
When a horrific vision reveals
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