Dead in the Water

Reviews

"I know, I know. What new can possibly be written about the Titanic and its 1,500 victims? If best-selling storyteller Caitlin Doughty is doing the writing, quite a lot, it turns out, because she uses the famous wreck to study our fear of and fascination with death itself. She goes beyond the rescue to the recovery, explaining the myriad ways the passengers actually died at sea, how their personal effects ended up in the hands of a salvage company, and how the survivors came to terms with the tragic deaths of their loved ones—or didn’t. Trust me, you haven't read this one before, and you won't be able to put it down." — John U. Bacon, author of The Gales of November

"Caitlin Doughty has taken a subject as well known as any could be and somehow made it new. Dead in the Water tells the story of Titanic’s dead with compassion, scrupulous care, and an honorable dedication to understanding what it meant to die in the most famous shipwreck of all. . . . As a reader, you can’t help but be infected by her fascination, but also to learn its human lesson: that we are drawn to such stories of death as a way of reckoning with our own." — Sophie Elmhirst, author of A Marriage at Sea