![]() ![]() SC: When I was learning to surf, I got seriously injured by a four-foot wave-ruptured a kidney, got my face all scraped up-and I could not believe the power of the thing. ![]() What made you want to write about giant waves? I wrote an article years ago about the neutral buoyancy tank, which is this biblically sized pool where they train astronauts. Mary Roach: I've always been a bit of a space geek. Susan Casey: Why did you want to write about space? The two authors sat down to talk about their shared obsessions. Mary Roach is a kindred spirit, a writer who has gone to great extremes to report on the curious worlds of cadavers ( Stiff), the paranormal ( Spook), sex ( Bonk), and now, outer space in the fascinating Packing for Mars. This month she comes out with The Wave, a spellbinding look into 100-foot-plus swells and the surfers and scientists who love them. O's Editor in Chief, Susan Casey, is an admitted "ocean fanatic," a journalist whose work has taken her all over the globe, including into an enclave of great white sharks for the 2005 best-seller The Devil's Teeth. Two intrepid writers explain why science is so cool. ![]()
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