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    Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria
    Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria
    Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria
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    Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria

    Written by Kevin F. McMurray

    Narrated by P.J. Ochlan

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    On a foggy July evening in 1956, the Italian cruise liner Andrea Doria, bound for New York, was struck broadside by another vessel. In eleven hours, she would sink nearly 250 feet to the murky Atlantic Ocean floor. Thanks to a daring rescue operation, only 51 of more than 1,700 people died in the tragedy. But the Andrea Doria is still taking lives.

    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.

    Deep Descent is the riveting true story of the human spirit overcoming human frailty and of fearsome, mortal risks traded for a hard-core adrenaline rush. Chronicling these adventures in his dramatic narrative, McMurray draws us deeper into the cold heart of the unforgiving sea, giving us a powerful vision of a place to which few will ever have the skills—or the courage—to go.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 20, 2018
    ISBN9781543657661
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    Kevin F. McMurray

    Kevin F. McMurray is an award-winning journalist and photographer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, Outside, Yankee, Men's Journal, The Sunday Times (London), Rock and Ice, Cigar Aficionado, and other publications. An avid outdoor adventurer, McMurray is an expert scuba diver and former world record holder for swimming around Manhattan. He is also the author of Deep Descent and Dark Descent. He lives in Brewster, New York.

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    • 5/5
      This was fascinating. Well told. I went from knowing absolutely nothing about the andrea doria and deep wreck diving to becoming an expert .
    • 5/5
      This book mixes human interest, history and science. Excellent
    • 4/5
      Well written and a nice companion to Shadow Divers. Some pretty graphic photos in the book of deceased divers.
    • 5/5
      Great book about a fabled sea tragedy and the continuing tragedy of divers who push themselves too far in the pursuit of prized relics from the lost vessel. The Andrea Doria lies virtually at the absolute possible depth for scuba diving. Reaching her takes an extraordinarily high level of technology and skill, and virtually any mistake guarantees a painful death. Yet dozens of divers keep trying, lusting for the prize of relics for the wreck, especially the ship's china, and as this book describes in chilling detail, many never live to return with their prizes.