More than a decade before the publication of Rachel Carson’s book in 1962, Carson wrote , the second book in a trilogy about the sea and its connections to life on earth. From its biodiverse ecosystems governed by the laws of sunlight, nutrients and oxygen to its terrifying depths, powerful forces and bizarre creatures, the sea often appears as a paradox: familiar but also incomprehensible. What scientists do know about the sea centres on the “epipelagic zone,” the upper layer of the ocean where sunlight filters through and photosynthesis still remains possible. The study of such environments typically falls to biologists
