Her wonderfully vivid, kinetic narrative.offers a prescient vision of watery perils-and sometimes, bittersweet triumphs. Casey is fluent in 'gnarly' and proficient in 'wonk,' and she writes lucidly so the rest of us can come along for the ride. She pushes the scientists on the big question. Casey makes a convincing, entertaining case (nifty cliffhangers and all) that there is a heretofore little-known monster in our midst. " examines big waves from every angle, and goes in deep with those who know the phenomenon most intimately.
The Toronto-born Casey has been Editor-in-Chief of O, The Oprah Magazine since 2009. In addition to authoring books, she served as creative director of Outside Magazine, where she was part of the editorial team that developed the stories behind the bestselling books Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, as well as the 2002 movie Blue Crush. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean (2010), and Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins (2015). Susan Casey is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks (2005), Like Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, The Wave brilliantly portrays human beings confronting nature at its most ferocious. In this mesmerizing account, the exploits of Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists’ urgent efforts to understand the destructive powers of waves-from the tsunami that wiped out 250,000 people in the Pacific in 2004 to the 1,740-foot-wave that recently leveled part of the Alaskan coast. Casey follows this unique tribe of people as they seek to conquer the holy grail of their sport, a 100-foot wave. The pioneer of extreme surfing is the legendary Laird Hamilton, who, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to board suicidally large waves of 70 and 80 feet.
These are extreme surfers who fly around the world trying to ride the ocean’s most destructive monsters. They found their proof in February 2000, when a British research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea-including several that approached 100 feet.Īs scientists scramble to understand this phenomenon, others view the giant waves as the ultimate challenge. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories-waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics.īut in the past few decades, as a startling number of ships vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something scary was brewing in the planet’s waters. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Oceanįor centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller.
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