pitt, dirk (fictitious character)

Hero Dirk Pitt finds the "Titanic" in the midst of a search for a secret cache of byzanium, a rare radioactive element that could be the key to America's defense weaponry--but Russian obstacles could keep Pitt from both raising the legendary ship and protecting his country.

National Underwater and Marine Agency head Dirk Pitt, his marine engineer son, Dirk, and his marine biologist daughter, Summer, struggle to prevent two World War II-era Japanese submarines carrying biological weapons from getting into the wrong hands.

Dirk Pitt must descend to the bottom of the Hudson River to recover a copy of the secret North American Treaty signed in 1914, but Great Britain is racing to find and destroy the same document.

When Dirk Pitt saves a group of archaeologists from drowning, he finds himself caught up in a smuggling ring searching for lost Inca treasure.

Dr. Rojas and Dirk Pitt are in Africa investigating different things, but are thrown together to save the world from environmental catastrophe.

In 1993, a Japanese auto carrier is destroyed by a nuclear explosion from an old American nuclear bomb.

Dirk Pitt opposes the monstrous plan of the Soviets, in collusion with an Asian shipping family, to practice mind control on the U.S. President.

Dirk Pitt must descend to the bottom of the Hudson River to recover a copy of the secret North American Treaty signed in 1914, but Great Britain is racing to find and destroy the same document.

A deadly plague is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea and has now extended its reach to claim the lives of humans. Dirk Pitt, researcher with the National Underwater and Marine Agency must find the source of the plague and head off a disaster that will claim the lives of millions of people and animals.

Dirk Pitt, special projects director of NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, becomes engulfed in a series of bizarre events that will change his life forever when he sets out to investigate the cause of the fire that sank the cruise ship Emerald Dolphin in July, 2003.