Dark Descent: Diving and the Deadly Allure of the Empress of Ireland by Kevin F. McMurray

Dark Descent: Diving and the Deadly Allure of the Empress of Ireland

Kevin F. McMurray

288 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history sports adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

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"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 ...

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