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9780071456302

Dark Descent

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  • ISBN13:

    9780071456302

  • ISBN10:

    0071456309

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-04-26
  • Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Summary

"McMurray . . . enables the reader to share the feelings of trust and self-control that make for destiny-shaping decisions. In doing so, he makes the reader a vicarious participant in what is a very extreme sport." --Philadelphia Inquirer "The most comprehensive and impressive account of the investigation of a shipwreck I've ever read." --Clive Cussler, bestselling author of Night Probe!

Author Biography

Kevin F. McMurray is an award-winning journalist and photographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Outside, Yankee, Men's Journal, and the Sunday Times of London.

Table of Contents

Preface x
Fourteen Minutes
1(42)
Brave Pioneers: From Initial Salvage to Jacques Cousteau
43(41)
Extreme Diving
84(36)
More Fatalities
120(27)
Planning the 2002 Expedition
147(23)
Adventure
170(39)
Return to the Empress of Ireland
209(20)
Epilogue: Empress Alumni 229(26)
Appendices 255(8)
Notes 263(5)
Bibliography 268(1)
Acknowledgments 269

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