72 Hours

"Dark Descent makes the reader a vicarious participant in what is a very extreme sport."—Philadelphia Inquirer

On May 29, 1914, the passenger liner Empress of Ireland was struck by the freighter Storstad and sank in fifteen minutes, taking more than 1,000 victims with her. It remains one of the largest losses of life ever in a maritime accident.

At more than a hundred feet deep in the frigid Gulf of St. Lawrence, diving the Empress is like trying to navigate an unfamiliar sixty-story building lying on its side at a forty-five-degree angle, in pitch blackness with only a flashlight. In Dark Descent, Kevin McMurray takes us deep into the bowels of the lost ship, first to relive her tragic death and then to join the divers who have probed the wreck's secrets. It's an adventure from which some divers don't return.

"Impressively researched. . . . For those who love the lure of the deep water and the mysteries of shipwrecks, this specialized history will be a pleasure."—Publishers Weekly

Considered the Mt. Everest of diving, the Andrea Doria is the ultimate deepwater wreck challenge. Over the years, a small but fanatical group of extreme scuba divers have investigated the Andrea Doria, pushing themselves to the very limits of human endurance to explore her -- and not all have returned. Diver Kevin McMurray takes you inside this elite club with a hard, honest look at those who go deeper, farther, and closer to the edge than others would ever dream.

As a member of a team of expert deep/cave divers for more than 12 yrs, including the achievement of four Guinness Records for deep diving, the author is uniquely positioned to give an account of his experiences and adventures.

This book is his personal account of the expeditions and the people he's been privileged, not only to dive with, but to call his friends.

Safe Diving Everyone.

A gripping account of the disastrous Russian submarine explosion that killed the entire crew, devastated the Russian people, and defined Vladimir Putin's post–Cold War regime.

What were Russian officials thinking when they waited 48 hours to acknowledge their most prized submarine was in trouble? Why did they track the desperate tappings of an unknown number of trapped sailors without sending an international SOS? Why did they repeatedly decline international rescue offers while their own rescue equipment repeatedly failed to make any progress?

To a world community still mystified by deadly Russian deceits surrounding the Kursk submarine disaster, Ramsey Flynn's book uncovers the truth once and for all. Cry from the Deep has quickly become the definitive account of this pivotal moment in modern Russian history, as an angry Russian people – aided and abetted by a fledging independent media – openly clashed with Vladimir Putin and his new government's Soviet–era tactics of secrecy and deception.

Flynn's searing narrative also documents how western officials, in a practiced silence reminiscent of the Cold War era failed to notify their post–Soviet counterparts of the disaster, despite learning of the explosion hours before the Russians did.

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

in this book

THE ADVENTURE OF SILVER BLAZE
THE ADVENTURE OF THE CARDBOARD BOX
THE ADVENTURE OF THE YELLOW FACE
THE ADVENTURE OF THE STOCK-BROKER'S CLERK
THE ADVENTURE OF THE "GLORIA SCOTT"
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MUSGRAVE RITUAL
THE ADVENTURE OF THE REIGATE SQUIRES
THE ADVENTURE OF THE CROOKED MAN
THE ADVENTURE OF THE RESIDENT PATIENT
THE ADVENTURE OF THE GREEK INTERPRETER
THE ADVENTURE OF THE NAVAL TREATY
THE ADVENTURE OF THE FINAL PROBLEM

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