Overview
Outside was pitch darkness and the icy chill of the ocean's depths--and the crushing weight of 1,700 feet of water. On the surface, a flotilla of ships and a rescue operation under the command of an eccentric retired naval commander. For three days, the world watched and held its breath. On August 29, 1973, a routine dive to the telecommunication cable that snakes along the Atlantic sea bed went badly wrong. Pisces III, with Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson onboard, had tried to surface when a catastrophic fault suddenly sent the mini-submarine tumbling to the ocean bed--almost half a mile below. Badly damaged, buried nose first in a bed of sand, the submarine and the two men were now trapped far beyond the depth of all previous sub-sea rescues. They had just two days' worth of oxygen. Rescue was three days away. The Dive reconstructs the minute-by-minute race against time that took place to first locate Pisces III and then execute the deepest rescue in maritime history. Ricocheting from the smoke filled ""war room"" at Vickers, the world famous ship-building headquarters in Barrow-in-Furness, to the surface vessels and then down to depths where three separate dive teams and the mini-submarine struggled in darkness, this thrilling adventure story shows how Britain, America, and Canada pooled their resources into a ""Brotherhood of the Sea"" dedicated to stopping the ocean depths from claiming two of their own.
Full Product Details
Author: Stephen McGinty ,
John Telfer
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Imprint: Dreamscape Media
ISBN: 9798228045330
Publication Date: 15 June 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Stephen McGinty is an award-winning journalist and producer of BAFTA-winning documentaries. He has published several books, including The Dive, and his documentaries include the co-produced Fire in the Night, which is based on one of his books and which won the Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and both RTS and BAFTA awards for ""best single documentary."" He lives in Scotland. John Telfer has worked extensively in theatre, performing on many occasions for the Bristol Old Vic and Royal National Theatre companies. His numerous television credits include co-presenting Let's Pretend and five years as sidekick Willy Pettit in Bergerac. In addition to many BBC Radio dramas and short stories, he has played the Reverend Alan Franks in The Archers since 2003 and has read for Poetry Please and Word of Mouth. A trained musician, he also narrates with the Brodsky Quartet and The Bristol Ensemble.
