Presents illustrations and brief descriptions of various types of shipwrecks, including those of Vikings, ancient Romans, and pirates, with spotlight wheels to reveal various underwater objects.
Author Clive Cussler discusses his real-life adventures as founder of the National Underwater 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.
Author Clive Cussler discusses his real-life adventures as founder of the National Underwater 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.
Discusses the history of underwater archaeology, following the evolution in methods and looking at some of the treasures that have been recovered from beneath the sea.
Presents a comparative discussion of two different shipwrecks separated by two centuries and two thousand miles, covering the "Henrietta Marve," a slave trader that sunk off the coast of Florida in 1700, and the wreck of an elegant steamer from a middle-class community in Maine.
