The Devil and the Disappearing Sea or, how I tried to stop the world's worst ecological catastrophe. Softcover by Rob Ferguson. Inside page has a name of the previous owner on it. Pick-up is in Saanich, close to the Monkey Tree and ICBC plaza off McKenzie Ave. Cross-posted. Thanks for looking! In 2000 Rob Ferguson went to Central Asia to work on an environmental project to save the Aral Sea. By the time he left a year later, he was under suspicion for murder. And the world's biggest ecological catastrophe was getting worse. This is his story.