Author Clive Cussler discusses his real-life adventures as founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, focusing on twelve incidents in which the agency sought and found sunken ships, each prefaced by a creative dramatization of the ship and the way it met its end.
The reader is asked to adopt the role of a marine archaeologist exploring the sea for the wreckage of the Titanic. Features die-cut cardboard shapes which can be assembled into a model of the Titanic complete with pull-out and lift-the-flap sections.
A photo-illustrated examination of several aspects of shipwrecks, which describes individual wrecks throughout history; discusses such topics as navigation and communications; and presents a look at underwater archaeology.