shipwrecks

Frank and Joe investigate to see if a pirate ship sank off Bayport four hundred years ago.

Offers ten true stories of lost and found discoveries beneath the ocean waves, including the sunken pirate haven of Port Royal, Jamaica; Gus Grissom's space capsule; and the world's first combat submarine.

Describes ancient treasures on the ocean floor and mysteries such as the "green women" underwater near Greece, and examines several shipwrecks throughout history, such as King Henry VIII's "Mary Rose, " the "Girona" of the Spanish Armada, the crewless "Mary Celeste, " the "Titanic, " the "Lusitania, " and others.

First-person survivor accounts of three disasters, the 1914 shipwreck of the Empress of Ireland, the 1928 crash of the airship Italia, and the 1930 crash of the dirigible R-101.

Photographs and text help chronicle the events that led up to and followed the sinking of three famous ships from history: the Mahdia ship from Athens in the first century B.C., the "Agamemnon" from the Battle of Trafalgar, and the Nazi warship, the "Graf Spee.".

Uncovers the hidden history of ships and shipwreck victims off Britain's coasts, revealing how many villages would intentionaly cause ships to sink in the hopes of pillaging the wrecks for needed food and supplies.

Chronicles the final voyage of the SS "Central America," as it sank off the Carolina coast in 1857, and explains the recent technology used to recover the ship and the twenty-one tons of gold that sank with it.

The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element, and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century.

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.

An illustrated adaptation of Daniel Defoe's "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," in which a seventeenth-century Scotsman is marooned on a remote, Pacific island for twenty-eight years.