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Summary: A Study of How to investigate a deep sea wreck
Review: Peter Limburg has done a considerable amount of research on a number of ships and planes that have gone down to the depths. Unlike Shadow Divers, which covers just one wreck, Peter Limburg's book covers the details of the work done to investigate a number of undersea wrecks, such as The Derbyshire, the Gaul, the Flare, the Lucona, the Marine Electric, the Rema, the Estonia, the Edmund Fitzgerald and quite a few others.
It's amazing the amount of time and money that was expended to find out the cause of these disasters. Technical details of the equipment used are included to give as complete report as possible.
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Summary: A Study of How to investigate a deep sea wreck
Review: Peter Limburg has done a considerable amount of research on a number of ships and planes that have gone down to the depths. Unlike Shadow Divers, which covers just one wreck, Peter Limburg's book covers the details of the work done to investigate a number of undersea wrecks, such as The Derbyshire, the Gaul, the Flare, the Lucona, the Marine Electric, the Rema, the Estonia, the Edmund Fitzgerald and quite a few others.
It's amazing the amount of time and money that was expended to find out the cause of these disasters. Technical details of the equipment used are included to give as complete report as possible.
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Summary: A Fabulous Read!
Review: This is a stunning book! I couldn't put it down. One mysterious disaster after another presented moment by moment as the tragedy unfolds, the suspense rises, the spine tingles and the fingernails get shorter and shorter -- and the solution is eventually uncovered by undersea divers and their robotic aids. My eyes just raced across the pages. Limburg is a great storyteller with an easy, readable prose and a gift for explaining nautical details and mechanical equipment so anyone can understand them.Remember the ferry "Estonia" which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994? The history of that fiasco will open your eyes. Want to know why the Soviet Sub "Kursk" sank in 2000? Or what happened inside the crew capsule of Challenger in 1986? Or what went on inside the cockpit of EgyptAir Flight 990 in 1999 when the plane headed straight down into the Atlantic? These are only a few of the tragedies Limburg discusses. Thanks to deep sea divers, robots and submersibles, the answers to many long-standing mysteries are now known. You will learn a lot about the logistics of a deep sea dive, how wrecks are raised, what kinds of clues the experts look for, and, most importantly, how these disasters come about. I'd recommend this book to anyone over 10. Limburg's flawless writing, dry humor and gentle wit are endearing; you feel you're being guided by a friend through a new and amazing world. I promise you, the words will leap off the page, your heart will race and your palms sweat. And you'll hardly notice you're learning a heck of a lot about modern deep sea salvage in the bargain.
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