Below the Edge of Darkness: Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea book cover with illustration of a giant squid

Below the Edge of Darkness: Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

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Below the Edge of Darkness explores the depths of the planet's oceans as Widder seeks to understand bioluminescence, one of the most important and widely used forms of communication in nature. In the process, she reveals hidden worlds and a dazzling menagerie of behaviours and animals. Alongside Widder, we experience life-and-death equipment malfunctions and witness breakthroughs in technology and understanding, all of it set against a growing awareness of the deteriorating health of our largest and least understood ecosystem.

Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism.

Edie Widder was on a pretty traditional career path in research science – with a BS in biology from Tufts University and an MS in Biochemistry and PhD in Neurobiology from the University of California, Santa Barbara -but then a submersible dive in 1984 changed everything. She was stunned by all the bioluminescence she saw and has been studying the phenomenon ever since. She has racked up hundreds of dives in deep diving submersibles and has qualified to pilot the deep diving suit WASP as well as the single-person untethered submersibles DEEP ROVER and DEEP WORKER.

Edie’s career in deep-sea exploration has brought her wide acclaim. In 2012 she captured the first video of the giant squid Architeuthis filmed in the deep sea using a stealth camera of her own design. In 2019 she repeated the feat, filming a giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico. Her deep-sea research has been featured in BBC, PBS, Discovery Channel, and National Geographic television productions.

She is the CEO and Senior Scientist at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association (www.TeamORCA.org ), a not-for-profit that she helped found in 2005 to focus on results-oriented, science-based solutions to ocean conservation challenges. Based on those efforts she was awarded a MacArthur genius grant in 2008.
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Virago Press Ltd (5 May 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN ‏ : ‎ 9780349011257
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.6 x 3 x 19.6 cm

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