Gangrey
Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Trapped Under the Sea

Neil Swidey has turned his Globe Magazine piece about the divers who became trapped in an enormous underwater sewage tunnel into a book. (I pre-ordered mine today.)

The story (behind a completely-worth-it 99-cent access paywall):

The divers packed themselves into the basket and prepared to be lowered by a crane down the 400-foot shaft. But they couldn't move until DJ Gillis got into the basket with them, and he wasn't about to be hurried.

"C'mon, DJ," one of the guys yelled. "Let's go!"

Tap Taylor, who was DJ's boss, started yelling, too. "Let's go!"

It was a radiant summer morning, and they were standing on Deer Island, a peninsula that hangs down like a comma from Winthrop into Boston…

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