Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks
Автор:
Delgado JamesЖанр:
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3Дата добавления:
2013-11-16Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
48
From Publishers Weekly More than a million ships have gone lost or missing in the seas, and going down in 'the museum of the deep' to find famous shipwrecks is a risky yet profitable business, sometimes challenging the limits of human endurance. Delgado, a marine archeologist and a member of the Sea Hunter TV retrieval team, presents a chronicle of distinguished wreckage, addressing the wrecks’ histories, the scope of the undersea explorations to locate them, the joy of discovery and the thrill of bringing artifacts to the surface. There are some very significant finds here: the supply ship Isabella, lost in 1830; the Pearl Harbor wreckage of USS Arizona and USS Utah; the flotilla of ships destroyed by an atomic bomb at the Bikini atoll; the massive ruin of the 'unsinkable' Titanic;...
