Publisher Description
After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of history's most notorious shipwreck: Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did?
To answer the question, Chatterton and Kohler assemble a team of experts to explore Titanic, study its engineering, and dive to the wreck of its sister ship, Brittanic, where Titanic's last secrets may be revealed.
Titanic's Last Secrets is a rollercoaster ride through the shipbuilding history, the transatlantic luxury liner business, and shipwreck forensics. Chatterton and Kohler weave their way through a labyrinth of clues to discover that Titanic was not the strong, heroic ship the world thought she was and that the men who built her covered up her flaws when disaster struck. If Titanic had remained afloat for just two hours longer than she did, more than two thousand people would have lived instead of died, and the myth of the great ship would be one of rescue instead of tragedy.
Titanic's Last Secrets is the never-before-told story of the Ship of Dreams, a contemporary adventure that solves a historical mystery.
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“In this expertly written account, Matsen does what would seem impossible: he tells us something new about the Titanic disaster…Matsen is an engaging writer and has smoothly incorporated massive amounts of research.”
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Publishers Weekly
About Brad Matsen
Brad Matsen has been writing about the sea and its inhabitants for thirty years in books, film scripts, essays, and magazine articles. Among his twenty books are Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2006; the paleontology classic Planet Ocean: A Story of Life, the Sea, and Dancing to the Fossil Record; and the award-winning Incredible Ocean Adventure series for young readers. He was a creative producer for the Shape of Life, an eight-hour National Geographic/Sea Studios television series on evolutionary biology, and wrote the accompanying book of the same name. He has written for Mother Jones, Audubon, Natural History, and dozens of other magazines, and his coverage of depleted ocean resources for Mother Jones in collaboration with artist Ray Troll won the Project Censored Award as one of the ten most important stories of 1999. His essays have been included in Book of the Tongass as part of the influential Literature for a Land Ethic series, the Smithsonian Institution’s Ocean Planet, and other anthologies. He has twice been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and lives in Seattle, Washington.
About Henry Leyva
Henry Leyva, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, is a classically trained actor with extensive work in theater, television, film, and radio. He has appeared off Broadway and in regional theaters across the country in many plays, including Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, and Street Car Named Desire. He has also performed in audio dramas for the Syfy Channel and National Public Radio