Deep Descent

Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria

By: Kevin F. McMurray

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Paperback | 1 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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An in-depth look at the danger of diving the Andrea Doria, the "Everest" of deep-sea diving, by an award-winning journalist and photographer.

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 fifty-one of more than 1,700 people died in the tragedy. But the Andrea Doria is still taking lives.

Considered the Mount 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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Clive Cussler A compelling masterwork of the greatest shipwreck killer in maritime history. McMurray involves you in the life-and-death drama as if you are actually diving in the depths.

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Foreword: On Wreck Diving	p. xi
Death on the Doria	p. 1
The Wreck of the Andrea Doria	p. 35
My First Descent	p. 61
The Pioneers of Wreck Diving	p. 91
Penetrating the Doria	p. 125
The Dying Season, Summer 1998	p. 173
Back to the Doria	p. 209
Where Are They Now?	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 279
Notes	p. 281
Wahoo Contract	p. 287
Seeker Contract	p. 293
Andrea Doria Fatalities	p. 297
Acknowledgments	p. 299
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