The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks
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| The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks | |
 First Edition Hardcover |
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| Author | Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo |
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| Cover artist | Paul Bacon |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Shipwrecks; Underwater Archeology |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publication date | 1996 (1st edition) |
| Media type | HARDBACK |
| Pages | 364 |
| ISBN | 0-684-83027-2 |
| Preceded by | None |
| Followed by | The Sea Hunters II: Diving the World's Seas for Famous Shipwrecks |
The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks is a nonfiction work by adventure novelist Clive Cussler published in the United States in 1996. This work details the authors search for famous shipwrecks with his nonprofit organization NUMA.
[edit] Synopsis
In 1978 adventure novelist Clive Cussler funded and participated in an attempt to find John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary warship, the USS Bonhommie Richard. The expedition was not successful, however, it eventually led to the formation of a nonprofit organization named after the fictional agency in his novels, the National Underwater and Marine Agency and dedicated to the discovery of famous shipwrecks around the world. In The Sea Hunters, Cussler documents the search for nine famous shipwrecks while also offering dramatized imaginings on the events that led up to the loss of the ship. To date, the group's most successful find is the discovery of the final resting place of the Confederate submarine Hunley, detailed in Part 6. The Hunley was later raised and is currently undergoing restoration in the hopes that it will later be available for public view.
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- Part 1: The Steamboat Lexington
- Part 2: The Republic of Texas Navy Ship Zavala
- Part 3: U.S.S Cumberland and C.S.S. Florida
- Part 4: C.S.S. Arkansas
- Part 5: U.S.S. Carondelet
- Part 6: The Confederate Submarine Hunley
- Part 7: The Lost Locomotive of Kiowa Creek
- Part 8: H.M.S. Pathfinder, U-21, and U-20.
- Part 9: The Troop Transport Leopoldville
- Part 10: A listing of the sixty-four shipwreck sites documented by the National Underwater and Marine Agency
