Deep Descent Audiobook (Free)

On May 29, 1914, the passenger liner Empress of Ireland was struck by the freighter Storstad and sank in a quarter-hour, taking more than 1,000 victims with her. It remains among the largest deficits of lifestyle ever within a maritime accident.

At greater than a 100 foot deep in the frigid Gulf of St. Lawrence, diving the Empress is similar to seeking to navigate an unfamiliar 60-tale building lying on its side at a 45-degree angle, in pitch blackness with just a flashlight. In Dark Descent, Kevin McMurray takes us deep into the bowels from the lost ship, first to relive her tragic death and then to join the divers who’ve probed the wreck’s secrets. It’s an experience from which some divers don’t return.