Her compatriots–writers like Sebastian Junger ( The Perfect Storm) or Jon Krakauer ( Into Thin Air)–have nothing on the petite blond, who has faced down dolphin-massacring Solomon Island tribal chiefs, been tossed around a sailboat like human chaff during a vicious storm in the great white shark-laden waters of San Francisco’s Farallon Islands and ridden behind surfing legend Laird Hamilton on a jet ski down a 40-foot wave at Jaws. The extraordinary writer, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Wave, The Devil’s Teeth, and her most recent, Voices in the Ocean, is the only female member in an elite cadre of extreme adventure writers. That happens a lot to Casey, who lives on Maui. When she learned that Casey would be writing the story, Werner posted, “I just about lost my mind!” Praising her as “a woman who had the courage to follow her dreams,” Werner described her experience with Casey as “an absolute gift.” But when the spearfishing champion and waterwoman highlighted it on social media, her excitement was not as much about the article, but about its author, Susan Casey.
L ast fall, Oahu’s Kimi Werner was featured in Outside magazine, a thrill for anyone.
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