The Sea Hunters II Author:Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo The creator of the Dirk Pitt adventures turns loose his storytelling gift on his own real-life search for historic shipwrecks. In THE SEA HUNTERS, Clive Cussler chooses the twelve most interesting shipwrecks he has discovered with the help of the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) Foundation, a nonprofit agency he established. Dating... more » to 1840, the wrecks span the continental U.S., the Atlantic Ocean, and the North Sea. These dramatic stories animate not only the history of the ship and her demise, but also the perils of the search. Readers will thrill to the hunts for the steamboat LEXINGTON, which burst into flames in the frigid winter of 1840, and the steamboat CHARLESTON (later incarnated as the warship ZAVALA) - which he found under a parking lot in Texas.
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