MARTÍNEZ: So, OK, aside from what we typically think we know about what's there, what's there?ĬASEY: Well, that is a question that's always haunted me. And it was a magnificent experience, just real honor to be able to share that with everybody. But I was very happy to get to that depth because what I was really hoping - when I set out to do this project, it was my greatest hope and dream that I would be able to take readers with me to a really profound depth in the ocean, and that's the literal abyss. MARTÍNEZ: What's the deepest you've been? I read that you went 16,000 feet deep, right?ĬASEY: It was somewhere between 16 and 17, probably closer to 17,000 feet deep. I really wanted to look in all of the rooms. And we've just looked in one or two rooms. And I often think of it as, like, living in some mansion filled with rooms full of amazing animals and artworks and treasures. She's a diver and author of the new book "'The Underworld: Journeys To The Depths Of The Ocean." Casey writes that while most people prefer to go to Paris, Bora Bora or the Serengeti, she's always wanted to go to the ocean's abyss.ĬASEY: If you think of the Earth as a biosphere, but 2% of that is everything we see, 98% is ocean, and 95% of that is deep ocean. MARTÍNEZ: Susan Casey has been down there. So, as you can imagine, since it goes all the way down to almost 36,000 feet in places, the deep ocean is the vast, vast, vast majority of the ocean. SUSAN CASEY: Typically, it's defined as the waters below 600 feet. Because even if you're in the ocean, you can't just look down and see what's in the deep waters. It's easy to dream about space because all you got to do is go outside and look up to see some of what's out there.
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