Journalist Susan Casey, a former member of the Canadian national swim team, has written about everything from hunting to chasing great white sharks. Her latest endeavors hardly undermine her reputation as an adrenaline junkie: Her new book, “The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean,” charts her forays into the ocean to chase the kind of monster waves that can swallow entire ships. And in a move that some might view as even more terrifying, she accepted the reins of O Magazine, where she has been Editor-in-Chief for the past year.
In her research for “The Wave,” she shadowed a gang of world-class surfers who were bent on riding a 100-foot wave.
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