The Sea Hunters II
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (973 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399149252 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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His teams have been inundated by tidal waves, and beset by the vagaries of man and nature, but the results-and the stories behind them-have often been dramatic: The 2000 raising of the Confederate submarine Hunley made national headlines. The famous ghost ship Mary Celeste, found floating off the Azores in 1872 with no one on board; the Carpathia, the ship that rescued the Titanic survivors and was itself lost to U-boats six years later; L'Oiseau Blanc, the airplane that almost beat The Spirit of St. Here, then, are more true tales of sea- and land-going adventures, as Cussler and his crews set out to track down history. Louis across the Atlantic before disappearing in the Maine woods-all these, plus steamboats, ironclads, a seventeenth-century flagship, a certain famous PT boat, and even a dirigible, prove tantalizing targets as Cussler demonstrates again that truth can be "at least as fun, and sometimes stranger, than fiction" (Men's Journal).. For twenty-three years, Clive Cussler's NUMA&r
One of Cussler's unsuccessful searches took his team to the Maine wilderness, where they tried to locate the wreckage of a French airplane that crashed in 1927 on its way to Washington, having crossed the Atlantic nonstop, before Charles Lindbergh. . From Publishers Weekly Well known for his series of action adventure novels starring Dirk Pitt, Cussler is also the founder of the nonprofit National Underwater and Marine Agency, a group that searches for shipwrecks of historical significance. On the other hand, his crew found the RMS Carpathia (the ship that rescued the survivors of the Titanic), which had been sunk by a German U-boat off the Irish coast in 1918. In this fast-paced narrative that doesn't tinker with the earlier Sea Hunters' successful formula, Cussler and his teams search for 300 years' worth of wrecks as varie
Cruisin Classics said Three Stars. No bad as a historical book. Was not what I was expecting.. "Welcome Back Aboard" according to D. Eichholz. Long a fan of Cusslers' Pitt novels, I read the S/H1 with great enthusiasm and relished the thought of another. This is every bit as interesting, although missing some of the humor and bite of the first. Combining historical fact, with a touch of imagined dialogue and action, Cussler takes us " 'ploring " and we are kids again, excited by the challenge and what we might fi. "real life treasure hunting" according to Stephen S. Connaway. I was a little disapointed in this book. I was expecting a diary of events relating to the discovery of all the lost ships. I didn't get it.