

The other reason might be that, as a former competitive swimmer, Casey is comfortable in the watery mass that represents about 98 percent of the living space by volume on our planet. “One of the reasons I like to write about the ocean is that it is such a massive part of our planet,” said Casey during a break from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference this past July.

Her most recent New York Times bestseller “Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins” is the third book she has written covering the watery realms-her previous two focusing on specific subcultures of the world’s oceans, including great white sharks (“The Devil’s Teeth”) and the obsession with, and science behind, freak and rogue waves (“The Wave”). Author Susan Casey just might be obsessed with water.
