[.ca] Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck ... (ISBN 1585744573)

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 together two minutes to deadline. I returned it for a refund -- glad I did.

Content interesting. Proof reader should be shot!:
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.

Deep divers will enjoy:
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.

An excellent read:
This book was hard to put down.

A fascinating and impartial account of human striving:
Grippingly written by Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Joe Haberstroh, Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, And The Wreck Of The Andrea Doria is an impressively informative look at the cruelties of the sea itself and the people who brave it. Wreck divers routinely take the dangerous plunge to retrieve of artifacts from the lost ship Andrea Doria as a proving ground for their skills, yet plunging to such depths carries deadly risk -- and the death toll of the Andrea Doria's sinking continues to increase to this very day as some plunge to challenge themselves and never surface alive. A fascinating and impartial account of human striving, Fatal Depth is especially recom-mended reading for anyone with an interest in deep sea diving and underwater exploration.