07690cam a2200541 4500 240283749 TxAuBib 20140811120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307886743 0307886743 B00ERTDIMM Amazon 5ab1c19d-9496-4285-a46e-af12e3a522bf OverDrive (Reserve ID) 209340 1386902 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Swidey, Neil. Trapped Under the Sea [Bridges eBook] : One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness. Crown/Archetype, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2774kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job--with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of "black mayonnaise." Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as "beach whistles." In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel--its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth's deepest ocean trench--to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book--which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm--is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population's rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk--how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred--and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel--behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible--lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice. From the Hardcover edition.. "While corporate boardrooms are the usual point of entry for dramas involving big money and technological hubris, Swidey, a journalist and author, works instead from the bottom up in his impressively reported account...His is a skillful examination into the basic fragility of such huge infrastructural projects and a lesson in how worker fatalities result not so much from single catastrophic mistakes as from 'a series of small, bad decisions made by many individuals.'". New York Times Book Review. "Captivating... Swidey brands the disaster with a human face by introducing the men to the reader and extracting lessons learned through a careful examination that he passes along in a narrative nonfiction piece that would no doubt make his glorious predecessors in the investigative magazine genre of the early 20th century proud.". HTML:Fort Worth Star-Telegram. HTML:"Trapped Under the Sea is extraordinary. It bears comparison with The Perfect Storm in its brilliant evocation of everyday, working class men thrust into a harrowing, at times heroic confrontation with death and disaster.". HTML:Dennis Lehane, author of Live By Night and Shutter Island. "This book will take you on a journey into a fascinating but little-known world--it's the anatomy of a tragedy, a dramatic tale with a cast of vividly drawn characters, superbly written and researched.". HTML:Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action and The Lost Painting. HTML:"Perhaps Swidey's greatest accomplishment is how through it all -- the bravery, the bungling, and the loss -- he manages to attain a level of suspense akin to that accomplished by Sebastian Junger in The Perfect Storm...[A] masterfully crafted saga.". Boston Globe. HTML:"Intense...A Perfect Storm of public works: the great, awful narrative about the building of a ten-mile tunnel that ends in a very dark place beneath the Atlantic. Maybe not for claustrophobes; definitely for everyone else.". New York. HTML:"Neil Swidey's Trapped Under the Sea combines rich characters with a thrilling and tragic story that offers something for readers of all stripes...At once tragic and ironic, insightful and enraging.". HTML:The Blaze. HTML:"A harrowing account of how commercial divers risk their lives to improve ours. After reading Neil Swidey's engrossing Trapped Under the Sea, you will never look at a bridge or tunnel in the same way.". Men's Journal. "A harrowing account of one of the largest engineering projects in U.S. history and of the hubris and ignorance that led to tragedy...A cautionary tale, which Mr. Swidey writes with splendid heart.". Wall Street Journal. HTML:"Trapped Under the Sea is a heartbreaking tale of real-life bravery, real-life bungling, and real-life tragedy. Neil Swidey is a terrific storyteller.". HTML:Elizabeth Kolbert,. "Swidey's book is, at its core, a story about people: the people who risked their lives. The people who loved them. And the people who should have seen the disaster to come.". Maclean's. HTML:"A gripping (and true) tale ... told in a you-are-there narrative style that recalls Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air.". Civil Engineering. "Neil Swidey's detail-rich account of this unlikely disaster is a stirring tribute to the men, how they lived, and how they died.". Mother Jones. "Unforgettable...Seems destined to become a nonfiction classic.". HTML:Engineering News-Record. "Reads like a thriller.". Sacramento Bee. Technology. True Crime. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. 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