Product Description

Dive in. Death is only a breath away...Just when you thought it was safe..."The Mammoth Book of The Deep" presents 30 true-life stories of danger, endurance and adventure from this final frontier. Encounter great white sharks, the stricken Kursk submarine, gold salvagers, sponge divers, giant squid, the wreck of the Titanic, Navy frogmen, and bathyscopes in record-breaking descents. These riveting accounts range from the Red Sea to the South Pacific, from the North Atlantic to the Caribbean - and include contributions by names such as Jacques Cousteau, Hans Hasse, Peter Benchley and Tim 'Neutral Buoyancy' Ecott. It includes: "Goldfinder": Keith Jessop - salvaging the gold cargo from HMS Edinburgh; "Black Water": Don Camsell - an SBS training operation aboard a mini-sub goes tragically wrong off the coast of Scotland; "The Abyss": John Craig - attacked by giant octopus whilst exploring a trench off Baja California and saved by codivers hacking the octopus with axes; "A Time to Die": Robert Moore - the operation to rescue the trapped submariners of the Kursk; and "Blue Hole": Martyn Farr - the death of caver Frank Mertz, 90m below, leading an expedition to chart Benjamin's Blue Hole, Caribbean; It also includes: "Discovering the Titanic": Robert Ballard - the world's foremost wreck-hunter on the world's greatest wreck; "Descent": William Beebe - the record breaking descent in a bathysphere off Bermuda, 1934; "World Without Sun": Jacques Cousteau - the famous experiment in living for a month on the sea bed; and "Whirlpool": Rod Macdonald - the dive into the centre of Corryvwrecken, off Scotland, the third largest whirlpool in the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160448 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Dive magazine
Packed with great stuff

About the Author
Jon E. Lewis is a regular author and editor of Mammoth titles, including the bestselling The Mammoth Book of The Edge and The Mammoth Book of Endurance and Adventure.

Customer Reviews

I have only just started this book, so I can't yet coment fully on the content. The book itself arrived in good condition.
The book arrived in good condition. I have onlyead the first few pages, but so far so good. The opening is an informative time line of underwater adventure and exploration.