The Underworld review: A gripping voyage into the deep ocean


New Scientist Default Image

The mid-Atlantic ridge comprises hydrothermal vents, like this “black smoker”

B. MURTON/SOUTHAMPTON OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE/spl

The Underworld
Susan Casey (Doubleday)

DESPITE the latest tragic lack of OceanGate’s Titan submersible, individuals will proceed to discover the ocean’s darkest corners. Susan Casey, a sensible documenter of the aquatic world in her earlier books The Satan’s Tooth and The Wave, helps us see why in her newest ebook.

The Underworld: Journeys to the depths of the ocean seeks to reply a query first posed by Aristotle as he dissected cuttlefish within the 4th century BC: what’s beneath …