About the book: 2000 / “The author of these lines is not an engineer, not a gunsmith, not a mechanic. Perhaps not all of my judgments will be freed from subjectivity and emotions. But it so happened that for the last twenty years I have, willingly or unwillingly, been forced to delve into the essence of certain maritime disasters, but I don’t know how to write about it dispassionately." Article from the magazine "Our Contemporary."" 2000 11