BRAD MATSEN is the author of Death + Oil: A True Story of the Piper Alpha Disaster on the North Sea; Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King; Titanic’s Last Secrets; Planet Ocean: A Story of Life, the Sea, and Dancing to the Fossil Record, and many other books about the sea and its inhabitants. His articles on marine science and the environment have appeared in Mother Jones, Audubon, and Natural History, among many other publications. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington.