The author of 2001's Deep Descent recounts the sinking of the Canadian ocean liner Empress of Ireland & documents its subsequent romantic history as a lure for scuba divers in this well-researched but narrowly focused book. Early on the morning of May 29,1914, the Empress was caught in a thick fog in the Gulf of St. Lawrence & was hit by a Norwegian collier that tore open the hull around its boiler room. The ship went down in about 14 minutes, killing two-thirds of its 1,475 travelers. Many of them were lost in the darkness below deck; some tried to squeeze out of portholes only to get stuck; others died of hypothermia in the freezing water.
Author: McMurray, Kevin
Pages: 270
Book format: paperback
Product code: 60.60.244
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