"Trapped Under The Sea" With Author Neil Swidey

In Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness, author Neil Swidey recounts the tragic and avoidable human toll of the fraught last step of the decade-long harbor cleanup. The book is a gripping thriller: http://vimeo.com/84136236.

It explores how designers and engineers — emboldened by new technology and pressured by governments and corporations to address a growing population’s rapacious needs — are pushing the limits of the possible. Yet no matter how impressive an engineer’s solution may look on a computer screen, it always falls to a bunch of workers in hard hats to carry it out.

"Extraordinary. 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." (Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River)

Reception and book signing will follow the presentation. Free and open to everyone. Thursday, May 15th, starting at 7:30 pm.