Bored on her father's yacht off the west coast of Australia, fifteen-yearold Julianna finds herself swept into a seventeenth-century nightmare of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder.
In this first novel of a trilogy, eleven-year-old Ben rescues an English girl from a shipwreck off the Outer Banks of North Carolina; and, though she becomes part of his family, she never speaks.
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.
Photographs and text provide an account of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, discussing the ships design, passengers, crew, and rescue efforts to save the survivors.