Lady In Waiting: Final Chapter is a one-hour television event that will finally put to rest a nearly century-old mystery of the world's greatest maritime disasters, the sinking of the Empress Of Ireland off Quebec, Canada in 1914.

With more passengers lost than the ill-fated Titanic, this CPR ocean liner collided with a Norwegian coal freighter and sank in just 14 minutes, taking 1012 lives.Why the mystery? Because the ship went down in the exact same spot where its captain, Henry Kendall, had captured the notorious North London Cellar Murderer Dr. Harvey Hawley Crippen four years earlier.

Before his hanging, Crippen dramatically cursed Kendall under an ominous fog, damning the captain to suffer for his treachery. The curse of a condemned man went unheeded until a killer fog arose on a night in May 1914 and the unthinkable happened — the Empress sank with some 800 souls trapped in her bosom, with hundreds more dying above her.

The greatest tragedy in Canadian maritime history remains unsolved. Henry Kendall walked away a free man; the sinking deemed an accident by an international inquiry. Yet many disbelieved the captain’s testimony that he stopped the engines when he knew a collision was inevitable. What if the ship’s telegraph was set at Full Steam Ahead? That would tell a very different story, that perhaps the captain was driven to disaster by Crippen’s curse.

The answer lies deep beneath the St. Lawrence River where a structure the size of a 60-story building lies precariously on its side.

This documentary event will follow a world-class dive team as they attempt to go where no one has ever gone before, deep into the bowels of the Empress Of Ireland to locate the engine room telegraph. To accomplish this dangerous feat they must enter a diver’s hell, battling tumultuous currents, blinding silt and harsh temperatures. And worse, they must enter an unstable wreck that is constantly shifting position, such that an entry through one opening does not guarantee an exit out the same way.

So tangible is the curse, that several divers have already died attempting to penetrate the infamous wreck.

The 200-kg brass telegraph will show Kendall’s final order from May 29, 1914. It is a rare piece of history and provides this last chance for closure, for the Empress is deteriorating rapidly and will soon be lost forever.

Lady In Waiting: Final Chapter will document this historic dive while re-telling the dramatic story of Crippen’s curse, the evasive Captain Kendall, and the events leading up to that tragic night. The program will include exclusive, never-before-broadcast footage of Grace Hanagan, the last living survivor of the Empress sinking, with an enthralling first-person account of that fateful evening in 1914.

A unique blend of history and mystery, Lady In Waiting’s event-based content will have a new media component, allowing an extensive interactive experience that allows viewers to follow the program on their TV and computer at the same time using innovative iLoveTV technology.

Lady In Waiting: Final Chapter is designed as an absorbing, exhaustively researched and well produced documentary special that complements, continues and ultimately answers the controversy raised in the two-hour movie thriller Lady In Waiting. It’s exciting event television that unlocks a thrilling door to our rich past.