Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever and the Wreck of the "Andrea Doria" Hardcover – 1 February 2003

Klasse Buch zum Kaltwasser Tauchen und zur Entwicklung des technischen Tauchens. Kann ich jedem Empfehlen der gerne Taucht und sich nicht so unbedingt für bunte Fische interessiert. :-)

Cant wait to read, only read a couple pages in but it is well written and interesting for me.

Poorly researcher and lacking in substance. Ends with a lawsuit but does not provide the outcome. One of many poorly researched or incomplete aspects of the book.

I enjoyed reading this book...for someone that does not dive it certainly is an eye-opener as to how many ways you can get in trouble quick at extreme depths.

This book is good for scuba divers who wants to understand all the "hoot" about diving safety.First of all, there is currently very little documentation ( I know of ) that details any terms of a DIVERS FATAL MISTAKES for scuba divers. Impossible to quantify with metrics, etc. If you are looking to learn from other people's mistake, this book is excellent. Hence, this book represents your chance to read about a few documented cases of such fatal errors, all of which scuba diving related. Second, the author does a good job in talking about the decision making process that "shakes" the life of a safe diver into acting in an unsafe way. It could happen to you. Oh, yeah!!Scuba divers are for the most part, constantly told about doing safe dives, keeping safe equipment, and thinking in a conservative mind set. Either by instructors, the dive shop, boat captains, their spouse, or close friends. So, why do people die from scuba diving? Mistakes. We all make the mistake of getting excited, impatient, and finally - acting impulsively. I stared to cry, after reading the tragic events in this book. Scuba divers making a gasping effort to recover dishes, tea cups, and other fine china from the wreck of the Andrea Dora. The stories were in respect of the team supporting those fatal accidents. These were very experienced, very safe, and masters of the deep diving, to 200 feet plus. These divers live and breath the Atlantic ocean "repetitively" so as to complete their deep sea diving journey. Experienced divers!! Yet, something went wrong, and they may have pushed their limits beyond their knowing -- to a point of fatal results.Each of the eleven chapters has a story of a scuba diver who made a wrong decision. A fatal decision. The reader does not need to be a scuba diver, but want to learn about deep diving, and its dangers. How can experienced divers with excellent skills make stupid humans mistakes? Oh, it was sad, very sad. The book is timeless in the storyline, since the human mind continues to make the same common mistakes, sorry to say. The words were well written, and easy to understand. Nothing technically challenging for the reader.Be prepared to be "shaken." This book is a great read for anybody.