Susan Casey

Jan 10, 2025 | outsideonline.com | Alex Hutchinson |Jake Stern |Susan Casey |Annie Pokorny

Wim Hof's teachings about breath work and the health benefits of cold plunges have attracted millions of followers who swear it has cured everything from depression to diabetes and makes them happier and stronger. Our writer traveled to Iceland (naturally) for a deep dive with the man and his methods.

Aug 9, 2023 | smithsonianmag.com | Susan Casey

“Should we go see the sharks?” Terry Kerby asked, treading water beneath the Makai Research Pier. This was a rhetorical question. Of course we were going to see the sharks. Before I could answer he was gone in a hail of bubbles, weaving through wooden pilings and arrowing 20 feet down to the seafloor. I adjusted my goggles, took a deep breath and followed him. Kerby was close to 70 years old, but to watch him free dive you’d never guess it.

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.

Apr 11, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Susan Casey |Brandon Stanton | |Stephanie Johnson

A fascinating account of the ocean below its twilight zone. Many scientists and adventurers have explored waters down to 600 feet, where the sunlight barely reaches, but award-winning journalist Casey, author of the bestseller Voices in the Ocean, points out that this zone, the epipelagic, “occupies only 5 percent of the ocean’s volume. For all its loveliness, it’s merely a ceiling.