Encounter great white sharks, the stricken Kursk submarine, gold salvagers, sponge divers, giant squid, the wreck of the Titanic, Navy frogmen, and bathyscopes in record-breaking descents in The Mammoth Book of the Deep.

These riveting accounts range from the Red Sea to the South Pacific, from the North Atlantic to the Caribbean - and include contributions by names such as Jacques Cousteau, Hans Hasse, Peter Benchley and Tim "Neutral Buoyancy" Ecott.

Includes:

Goldfinder: Keith Jessop - salvaging the gold cargo from HMS Edinburgh
Black Water: Don Camsell - an SBS training operation aboard a mini-sub goes tragically wrong off the coast of Scotland
A Time to Die: Robert Moore - the operation to rescue the trapped submariners of the Kursk
Discovering the Titanic: Robert Ballard - the world's foremost wreck-hunter on the world's greatest wreck
Descent: William Beebe - the record breaking descent in a bathysphere off Bermuda, 1934
World Without Sun: Jacques Cousteau - the famous experiment in living for a month on the sea bed