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The Dive - The Untold Story of the World's Deepest Submarine Rescue (Paperback)
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The Dive - The Untold Story of the World's Deepest Submarine Rescue (Paperback)
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Loot Price R262
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The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of
The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13. They were out of their depth, out
of breath, and out of time. It was 1973. Two men were trapped in a
crippled submarine 1,700 feet below sea. They only had enough air
to survive for two days. On the ocean's surface there was a hastily
assembled flotilla of rescue ships from both sides of the Atlantic.
The world held its breath to await word of a rescue. In a routine
dive to fix the telecommunication cable that snakes along the
Atlantic sea bed, their mission had gone badly wrong. There was a
catastrophic fault on board the Pisces III, and Roger Chapman and
Roger Mallinson's mini-submarine went tumbling to the ocean bed
almost half a mile below. The crippled sub and its crew were
trapped far beyond the depth of any previous sub-sea rescue. They
had just two days' worth of oxygen. However, on the surface the
best estimates for a rescue of these men was a minimum of three
days' time. The Dive is brilliantly researched by veteran
journalist Stephen McGinty. Stephen adeptly reconstructs the race
against time as Britain, America and Canada pooled their resources
into a 'Brotherhood of the Sea' dedicated to stopping the ocean
depths claiming two of their own. Based on previously undisclosed
records, maritime logbooks, and exclusive interviews with all the
key participants, The Dive takes the reader on an emotional and
thrilling ride from the depths of defeat to a glimpse of the
sun-dappled surface.
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