I thought, well, that would be a pretty cool story. They also talked about the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench which is seven miles deep, fifteen hundred and eighty mile-long gorge that is forty miles wide. In 1995 I got a Time magazine in the mail and on the front cover was a Meg and the article talked about thermal vents and how we had never thought there was life at the bottom of the ocean until 1977 when the submersible was designed and they went down and found all this life at the bottom. Flash forward twenty years, I was thirty-five years old with a family of five to take care of. But there was nothing really out there about it. It always talked about great whites and megalodons. There was a little blurb with a black and white photo of these scientists standing in a set of shark jaws at the Smithsonian. I probably read everything that the library had on them. After I read that I wanted to know all I could about great white sharks and real-life attacks.

It started when I was fifteen and read the book Jaws. Where does your fascination with sharks and ancient ocean creatures come from?” I dove into the cove to cage dive with giant Makos and other sea monsters you wouldn’t want to run into. It’s continually evolving and adding new aquariums, new monsters, new books, and new series episodes.īefore I sat down with Alten for an interview I explored the site, called Sea Monster Cove.

He also has an amazing new interactive website Sea Monster Cove that puts you in the water with ancient sea monsters, features a new exclusive web series, a video game, and a library of Alten’s novels, all for $9.95 a month.

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