Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks

Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks

Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks

Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks

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Overview

Adventure diving stories and shipwreck history, by diver and maritime archaeologist James Delgado - the first prof. archaeologist to explore the wreck of the RMS Titanic. * Delgado is the co-host with Clive Cussler, of the National Geographic International television series The Sea Hunter

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781926685601
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Publication date: 07/01/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 635,055
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

James P. Delgado has great enthusiasm for adventure and history. Passionate about the past, he has battled for preservation and against looting while pursuing a more scholarly path, always believing that the only way to learn was by getting his hands dirty and doing “it” whatever “it” was in his quest for understanding the past. “It” has included participating in Spanish cavalry drills 1776-style, sailing in a square-rigger, trudging across the icy-cold tundra in the footsteps of doomed Arctic explorers, and at least two near-drownings. It has also included the ill-advised sampling of vintage 1851 champagne plucked from the mud of the old San Francisco waterfront, and trying a coffin on for size.

One of the world’s foremost archeologists, and currently the Executive Director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum (Canada), James Delgado previously served as Maritime Historian for the U.S. National Park Service where he was the founding head of the National Maritime Initiative, the federal maritime preservation program. Author or editor of nearly thirty books, he has appeared in numerous television documentaries, and currently hosts “The Sea Hunters” with Clive Cussler for National Geographic International, just renewed for a third season. His recent Across the Top of the World sold 40,000 copies in the United States, Europe, and Canada.

James Delgado's recent participation in an international expedition to explore the remains of Kublai Khan’s Mongol invasion fleet of 1281 A.D. just located near Takashima Island off Japan. Marine archeologists are calling this Fall, 2001 discovery one of the greatest finds of all time. He grew up in California and now lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Clive Cussler
Introduction: The Great Museum of the Sea

Chapter One: Skeletons in the Sand (wreck near San Francisco)
Chapter Two: Graveyard of the Pacific (off state of Washington)
Chapter Three: Pearl Harbor
Chapter Four: Sunk by the Atomic Bomb (wrecks of ships test-sunk by U.S. Navy at Bikini Atoll)
Chapter Five: A Cursed Ship (wreck of the most notorious clipper ship in U.S. Navy)
Chapter Six: Titanic
Chapter Seven: Carpathia (liner sunk by a German U-boat in World War I)
Chapter Eight: Catherine the Great's Lost Art: The Wreck of Vrouw
Maria (lost treasure ship of Catherine the Great of Russia)
Chapter Nine: Kublai Khan's Lost Fleet (fleet that was supposed to invade Japan sunk by storm)
Chapter Ten: A Buried Ship in the Heart of the City (wreck of ship covered by landfill in downtown San Francisco)
Chapter Eleven: Heroes Under Fire: USS Merrimac and Cervera's Squadron
(ships sunk during Spanish-American War)
Chapter Twelve: Hitler's Rockets (diving in water-filled mineshafts where
V-1 and V-2 rockets were built in WWII)
Chapter Thirteen: Sole Survivor (German battleship sunk by British in WWII)
Chapter Fourteen: Arctic Fox (a historic wreck in the Arctic)
Chapter Fifteen: Civil War Submarine (a Confederate submarine sunk during the Civil War)
Conclusion: What's Next? (some famous wrecks yet to be found or explored)
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