Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria: Amazon.ca: Joe Haberstroh: Books

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It's well researched, well interviewed, and written without frills. It doesn't need frills. Wreck diving is already on the edge, an extreme sport with virtually no margin for error. Drama is built in. Haberstroh does a nice job with these issues, the profiles of the five who died are effective, and he understands the sport without having dived himself, which is quite an accomplishment." --National Geographic Adventure

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The gripping true story of treasure hunting and terrible tragedy encountered by divers exploring the world's most dangerous sunken shipwreck.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Content interesting. Proof reader should be shot!, Mar 25 2004

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Adam Wilson (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria (Hardcover)

As an avid wreck diver, I have read nearly every book available on the Andrea Doria. This book is similar to Deep Descent in that it documents some of the diving deaths at the Doria, however, this book goes into more details on the recreation of what may have happened to some of these unfortunate divers. I enjoyed the book but found it to be one of the worst examples of sloppy publishing I have ever read. I found nearly 50 examples of misspelled words, incorrect grammar, and sentences that made no sense because key works were missing. ( by misspelled words I am referring to words that will appear correct to a spell check program but are spelled incorrrectly in the context they are used. eg. the word "lot" will not be caught as a misspelled word but when you mean to write "lost"... you get the picture. A case of the authors mind running faster than his fingers. I would be surprised if anyone actually proof read this, and if it was proof read Joe should get his money back for the service. A 5 year old would have done a better job. Even more shocking considering that Joe Haberstroh is a reporter and columnist.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good but brief, April 12 2010

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This review is from: Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria (Hardcover)

A good easy read. This book gives you some insight to what was going on when diving the Doria in that time period. The book is laid out is a way that it gives a little history of each person that passes away then an account of the activities leading up toe the incident. Lets the reader / diver realize the danger of diving to these depths / conditions even if you have the qualifications and experience.

I would have liked the book to describe more of the charters done to the Doria during this time. The reader may get the impression that every trip had a fatality which was not the case. I dive with one of the fellow's mentioned in the book and he describes this time period as one of early tri-mix diving and there was allot of experimenting done as well.

Overall very much worth the money for the book.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Deep divers will enjoy, May 27 2004

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This review is from: Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria (Hardcover)

This is a very good book dealing with diving on the Andrea Doria. It is a detailed account of two chapters in Deep Descent. I think it is a story that is written well enough that most people will glide past the proofreading errors. Hardcore divers will enjoy the book, but few others.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read
This book was hard to put down.

Published on Feb 21 2004 by Ed profancik

2.0 out of 5 stars Reads more like a magazine than a book
After reading "the Last Dive" I had great hopes for this book. But it was very disappointing, little depth or background, reads much more like a magazine article pulled... Read more

Published on Jan 4 2004