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On a fog-choked night in July 1956, two modern ships met in the North Atlantic. One would survive. One would not. The collision between the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish vessel Stockholm was not a failure of seamanship in the traditional sense. It was a failure of modern confidence. Radar worked. Crews were trained. Procedures existed. And yet, through misinterpretation, overconfidence, and the quiet pressure to maintain speed, a technologically advanced ship was fatally wounded within sight of safety. In Andrea Doria: Collision, Fog, and the Modern Sea, Gordon J. MacKenzie reconstructs the disaster as more than a maritime accident. He presents it as a turning point in how modern systems manage uncertainty. Drawing on official investigations, survivor testimony, and decades of professional maritime analysis, this book examines how technology reshaped responsibility, how fog exposed the limits of instrumentation, and why modern disasters so often arise not from ignorance, but from misplaced certainty. This is not a tale of fate or villainy. It is a study of decision-making under pressure, of shared risk in crowded seas, and of the dangerous illusion that information can replace judgment. From the bridge to the courtroom, from rescue at sea to the wreck's later life on the ocean floor, Andrea Doria reveals why this collision continues to matter in an age defined by screens, systems, and speed. Part of the Shipwrecks That Shaped History series, this book explores how a single night at sea helped signal the end of the great liner era and forced a reckoning with what modern safety truly demands.

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