Ready to Dive: Five Decades of Adventure in the Abyss

In Ready to Dive, Curt Newport describes his role in some of the most daring and consequential...
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Author: Curt Newport
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Ready to Dive: Five Decades of Adventure in the Abyss by Newport, Curt

Ready to Dive: Five Decades of Adventure in the Abyss

$67.93

Ready to Dive: Five Decades of Adventure in the Abyss

$67.93
Author: Curt Newport
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In Ready to Dive, Curt Newport describes his role in some of the most daring and consequential deep ocean search and recovery operations of our time. Newport was there on the front lines and in the trenches, rigging lift lines, piloting underwater vehicles, and dealing with the carnage following both military and civilian plane crashes. Starting with his life as the son of a US Army aviator during various international postings before covering his conflicts with his father during the turbulent 1960s, the book details how he got into the subsea field. In a career lasting nearly fifty years, probing waters deeper than three miles, Newport describes unwinding passenger clothing from submersible propellers during the Air India salvage, recovering tons of volatile fuel-laden solid rocket motor parts from the Space Shuttle Challenger, thumbing through the wallet of a young girl lost during the crash of TWA Flight 800, and deciphering the navigational mystery of the USS Indianapolis. Ready to Dive is a gritty, blunt, and real firsthand subsea account unlike any other.

Author: Curt Newport
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 05/15/2024
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781612499666

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