The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks

The Sea Hunters: True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks  

First Edition Hardcover
Author(s) Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo
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
OCLC Number 34958890
Dewey Decimal 930.1/028/04 21
LC Classification G525 .C965 1996
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. There is also a television series titled The Sea Hunters which is based on the book.[1] It airs on the National Geographic Channel and History Television in Canada.

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In 1978 adventure novelist Clive Cussler funded and participated in an attempt to find John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary warship, the USS Bonhomme 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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