Brad Fox

Aug 1, 2023 | lmtonline.com | Brad Fox |Susan Casey |Carl Hoffman

Astra house. 336 pp. $29 The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean By Susan Casey Doubleday. 330 pp. $32 - - - Some years ago, I had the privilege of spending two months in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The ship was 150 feet long, the place a seven-day and seven-night journey southwest of Hawaii, the depth below us 18,000 feet. You might surmise there was nothing out there - certainly no other vessels, no land, no airplanes overhead and few birds, even. Only a vast stretch of sea and sky.

May 18, 2023 | lithub.com | Brad Fox

Linophryne arboriferaI saw a tremor run through the body—the fin waved two or three times, the tree-like growth of chin tentacles… a tangled snarl, then stretched wide to many times their contracted length, the mouth opened and partly closed, and the light went out of the great, staring eyes.

May 16, 2023 | smithsonianmag.com | Brad Fox

Midmorning on June 11, 1930, a barge called the Ready, bearing the staff of the Department of Tropical Research, floated off the coast of the island of Nonsuch in the Bermuda Archipelago. Men in white sailor’s caps and overalls gathered around a four-and-a-half-foot steel ball called the bathysphere as an enormous winch lifted it off the deck. The men stabilized the ball as it wheeled outward, dangling above the surface of the sea. It had three front-facing holes grouped tightly together like eyes.

May 16, 2023 | hakaimagazine.com | Brad Fox

1200 [feet] Idiacanthus. Two Astronesthes. 1250 Fish 5-inch-long, shaped like Stomias3-inch shrimps absolutely white. Argyropelecus in light beam. 2 luminous pale white jellies. 1300 6 or 8 shrimps. 50 or 100 lights like fireflies. Small squid in beam of light, seems to have no lights, went down to bait. Cyclothones. Two-inch shrimps. 1350 Light very pale. Temp. 72 [°F]. Meter wheel reading 403. 1400 Looking straight down very black. Black as hell.