Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria
by McMurray, Kevin F
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- Signed
- Condition
- Collectible - Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0743400623
- ISBN 13
- 9780743400626
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Synopsis
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 page-turning narrative and in dozens of dramatic photos, 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.
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- Bookseller
- Wonder Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB20E-01313
- Title
- Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria
- Author
- McMurray, Kevin F
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743400623
- ISBN 13
- 9780743400626
- Publisher
- Atria
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- May 22, 2001
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