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Books : Dark Descent: Diving and the Deadly Allure of the Empress of Ireland: Diving and the Deadly Allure of The Empress of Ireland
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Dark Descent: Diving and the Deadly Allure of the Empress of Ireland: Diving and the Deadly Allure of The Empress of Ireland by: Kevin F. Mcmurray |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 797.23 EAN: 9780071456302 ISBN: 0071456309 Label: International Marine Manufacturer: International Marine Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: April 01, 2005 Publisher: International Marine Studio: International Marine Sales Rank: 353458 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Empress of Ireland - a deep and dangerous wreck. I was drawn to purchase this book as I really enjoyed reading McMurrays' account of the various efforts made to explore the Andrea Doria over the years. (Deep Descent - Adventure and death diving the Andrea Doris, available through Amazon) This book about the Empress of Ireland was more like the curate's egg, being good in parts, and much space is inevitably given to the disputes over access to the wreck, issues over the legality of retrieving artefacts from the wreck and attempts to set up a museum about the wreck (eventually successful) with an underlying Quebecois versus Anglophone versus the Yanks conflict present! However, I cannot see how the author could have got round this overload of information as the various long drawn out disputes ... Read More: Rating: - Could have made room for some better quality photographs.Make no mistake, this is as complete a work on the ship "Empress of Ireland" as one might wish to find. The story of the tragedy itself is told in fascinating detail and the individual accounts of personal loss, survival and even the death of a professional salvage diver in the days following the demise of this once great ship reveal a level of research which is both thorough and complete. It all happened in 1914, only two years after the loss of the Titanic but also only a few months before Europe would be plunged into a conflict which would become known as the Great War, or the War to end all Wars. How curious, therefore, that the story of the Titanic lives on - and on, and that that of the Empress of Ireland seems to have become ... Read More: Rating: - Absorbing readAs with Kevin F. McMurray's earlier book Deep Descent, this book mixes the history of the ship and it's sinking along with details of it's diving history. The good thing about his knowledge of this wreck is that it is first hand. He himself is a diver with many years experience and he has actually dived The Empress or Ireland. |
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