Dark Descent Diving And The Deadly Allure Of The Empress Of Ireland

"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 "Kevin has a remarkable knack of adding life and realism. A great job."-R. W. Hamilton, Chairman of the Board, Divers Alert Network Kevin McMurray is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the The New York Times, Outside, Sunday Times (London), and Men's Journal. An experienced diver, he has visited the wreck of the Empress of Ireland on multiple occasions. He is the author of Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria.McMurray, Kevin F. is the author of 'Dark Descent Diving And The Deadly Allure Of The Empress Of Ireland', published 2005 under ISBN 9780071456302 and ISBN 0071456309.