

Both books are, unsurprisingly, New York Times bestsellers. I became obsessed with rogue waves religiously stalking container ships via apps across the high seas…just in case any mysteriously vanished into the watery depths, engulfed by the algorithms that create these monstrous walls of water. I then moved onto The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean. My bookmark was the biosphere bracelet we wore on the dives and the pages are permanently dog eared and warped from the moisture that permeates everything after a week at sea. I voraciously devoured The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks, before my first venture to swim with whites back in 2012. As a connoisseur of her books, I’ve been familiar with her briny passions for quite some time. “Oceanista” is how Susan Casey describes herself in her Instagram heading.
