Best-selling author Caitlin Doughty presents Titanic like never before: through the stories of the almost 1,500 people who died—and what happened to the bodies. Alongside white-knuckle tales of survival and mass death during the disaster, Doughty foregrounds the haunting stories of lesser-known victims, profiles the telegraph-cable-repairmen–turned–seafaring-undertakers who pulled the floating bodies from the wreck site in the North Atlantic, and explores how a salvage company came to control the human artifacts—shoes, hairbrushes—carried and worn by the dead passengers and crew. Dead in the Water explores how we face the void and accept (or refuse to accept) death in extreme conditions.