A sober, daytime, conventionally structured narrative about exploring the deep by manned submersible, made personal by Casey’s quest to descend to the depths herself ... A fine tour of the history and challenges of exploring this most fantastical and forbidding of earthen worlds.
Casey’s most sprawling and ambitious book ... Starts with a cliff-hanger ... She draws back to show in absorbing detail how the deep ocean has fascinated and terrified us for centuries ... Casey shows us, the ocean depths are increasingly threatened just as we’re beginning to learn about them ... Powerful.
Casey’s story is irresistibly personal ... Casey’s descriptions of the shimmeringly strange life teeming below the waves capture her wonder and ravishment in prose that morphs into poetry ... Casey touts state-of-the-art, water-loving organizations like OceanX, which means to inspire change by bringing the ocean’s wonders up to dry land with cutting-edge cinematography, vivid storytelling, and science — to grip us with the same awe, excitement, and call to action as Casey’s luminous book does.
