[W]e have all these dry numbers and significant wave height is one of them... [W]atching what it really means for a significant wave height to be 10 … - Helen Czerski

I set out to learn. I went around Scripps... I knocked on people's doors and I said "Hello, I'm a physicist. ...I'm learning about the ocean. If you've got a book you would recommend..." and people recommended books to me... [O]ne of them was Jacques Cousteau's Silent World and a whole bunch of others... Once I knew I wanted to learn, I was in exactly the right place to begin that journey.

I was indignant because I hadn't even read about it. ...I was that kid who had read every physics book, every science book, I'd read every copy of and whatever else... I was the... kid who had really read everything, and nobody had ever mentioned the ocean.

Alongside being a researcher for the past 10 or 12 years, I've also had the opportunity to make a lot of documentaries for the . ...This is not my first book. I've written science columns for years, for Focus magazine and ...