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• catalog abstract ""The passenger liner Empress of Ireland departed Quebec City on May 28, 1914, bound for Liverpool, England, with 1,477 passengers and crew. That night the Empress encountered dense fog in the frigid Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at 1:55 A.M., May 29, the liner was struck and split open by the collier Storstad. In less than 15 minutes the great ship plunged to the bottom with more than 1,000 victims - one of the largest losses of life ever in a North American maritime accident. Shocking though the tragedy was, however, it was swept from public consciousness by the gathering cloud of World War I and the torpedoing of the Lusitania a year later." "But the story of the Empress did not end there. Soon after the ship settled into the muddy bottom, deepwater salvage divers were sent down in an attempt to recover the hundreds of bodies still trapped aboard. Operating in the dark and frigid depths in an unstable, obstacle-strewn wreck, these pioneer "hard hat" divers were one misstep from disaster, and one lost his life that summer." "Then, for almost half a century, the Empress lay undisturbed and largely forgotten. But in the 1960s, devotees of the new sport of scuba diving, including Jacques Cousteau himself, began to brave the icy St. Lawrence for the chance to see and touch a piece of history. Generations after her sinking, the Empress was in remarkable condition - a great but deadly wreck to dive." "Despite continuing advances in diving equipment and techniques, more lives have been lost on the Empress in the past forty years - most recently in the summer of 2002. Considered a "pinnacle dive" by adventure seekers and a historic wreck by the likes of Robert Ballard (the discoverer of the Titanic), who filmed a documentary on the Empress in 1999, the beckoning of the Empress is simply too powerful to resist." "In Dark Descent, Kevin McMurray gives us two stories - the loss of a mighty ship with a human toll as terrible as the Titanic, and the birth and development of "deep-penetration" wreck diving, one of the most hazardous pursuits in the world. He re-creates not only some of the more successful dives on the Empress but also the fatal expeditions."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Diving and the deadly allure of the Empress of Ireland".
• catalog contributor b13237460.
• catalog created "c2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "c2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
• catalog description ""But the story of the Empress did not end there. Soon after the ship settled into the muddy bottom, deepwater salvage divers were sent down in an attempt to recover the hundreds of bodies still trapped aboard. Operating in the dark and frigid depths in an unstable, obstacle-strewn wreck, these pioneer "hard hat" divers were one misstep from disaster, and one lost his life that summer." "Then, for almost half a century, the Empress lay undisturbed and largely forgotten. But in the 1960s, devotees of the new sport of scuba diving, including Jacques Cousteau himself, began to brave the icy St. Lawrence for the chance to see and touch a piece of history. Generations after her sinking, the Empress was in remarkable condition - a great but deadly wreck to dive."".
• catalog description ""Despite continuing advances in diving equipment and techniques, more lives have been lost on the Empress in the past forty years - most recently in the summer of 2002. Considered a "pinnacle dive" by adventure seekers and a historic wreck by the likes of Robert Ballard (the discoverer of the Titanic), who filmed a documentary on the Empress in 1999, the beckoning of the Empress is simply too powerful to resist." "In Dark Descent, Kevin McMurray gives us two stories - the loss of a mighty ship with a human toll as terrible as the Titanic, and the birth and development of "deep-penetration" wreck diving, one of the most hazardous pursuits in the world. He re-creates not only some of the more successful dives on the Empress but also the fatal expeditions."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""The passenger liner Empress of Ireland departed Quebec City on May 28, 1914, bound for Liverpool, England, with 1,477 passengers and crew. That night the Empress encountered dense fog in the frigid Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at 1:55 A.M., May 29, the liner was struck and split open by the collier Storstad. In less than 15 minutes the great ship plunged to the bottom with more than 1,000 victims - one of the largest losses of life ever in a North American maritime accident. Shocking though the tragedy was, however, it was swept from public consciousness by the gathering cloud of World War I and the torpedoing of the Lusitania a year later."".
• catalog description "Fourteen Minutes -- Brave Pioneers: From Initial Salvage to Jacques Cousteau -- Extreme Diving -- More Fatalities -- Planning the 2002 Expedition -- Adventure -- Return to the Empress of Ireland -- Epilogue: Empress Alumni.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 268).".
• catalog extent "xviii, 270 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Dark descent.".
• catalog identifier "007141634X (hardcover)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Dark descent.".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "c2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Camden, Me. : International Marine,".
• catalog relation "Dark descent.".
• catalog spatial "Québec (Province) Saint Lawrence River Estuary.".
• catalog subject "797.2/3 22".
• catalog subject "Empress of Ireland (Steamship)".
• catalog subject "GV838.673.Q84 M36 2004".
• catalog subject "Scuba diving Québec (Province) Saint Lawrence River Estuary.".
• catalog subject "Shipwrecks Québec (Province) Saint Lawrence River Estuary.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Fourteen Minutes -- Brave Pioneers: From Initial Salvage to Jacques Cousteau -- Extreme Diving -- More Fatalities -- Planning the 2002 Expedition -- Adventure -- Return to the Empress of Ireland -- Epilogue: Empress Alumni.".
• catalog title "Dark descent : diving and the deadly allure of the Empress of Ireland / Kevin F. McMurray.".
• catalog title "Diving and the deadly allure of the Empress of Ireland".
• catalog type "text".