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Title details for The Sea Hunters II by Clive Cussler - Available

The Sea Hunters II

Diving the World's Seas for Famous Shipwrecks

by Clive Cussler
Craig Dirgo
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From the author of the #1 bestselling The Sea Hunters comes more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks.

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    December 2, 2002

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      • ISBN: 9781101976784
      • File size: 172782 KB
      • Duration: 05:59:57

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Clive Cussler's real-life National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) is devoted to locating lost ships of historic significance. NUMA doesn't salvage any artifacts; instead, it turns over its results to appropriate agencies for further action. In this installment, Cussler continues where he left off in The Sea Hunters, with fascinating tales of his searches for shipwrecks and the frustration and exhilaration accompanying these expeditions. The seasoned Scott Brick maintains the focus on Cussler's story through his low-key reading. Brick conveys Cussler's intensity and enthusiasm in an understated manner. Although Cussler has written many novels, The Sea Hunters II shows that true stories can be as interesting as fiction. D.J.S. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      August 12, 2002
      This is nonfiction, but it's still pretty thrilling: Cussler recounts the efforts of his organization, NUMAR the National Underwater and Marine Agency to dredge up lost ships with historical value.

      Copyright 2002 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Writer Clive Cussler founded the real-life NUMA, the National Underwater & Marine Agency, to search for lost ships of historical significance. Books in Cussler's Sea Hunters series comprise fictionalized accounts of true adventures relating to that research. Stories of ghost ships from the past entertain as well as inform about what might have happened in the last minutes before they sank. Edward Herrmann characterizes the stories with French, German, British, and Italian accents, depending on the ship's master and country of origin. Remote viewing, a twenty-first-century development, is sometimes employed to find ship remains. Though particularly suited to history buffs, the well-done narration will entertain any audience. G.D.W. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 7, 2002
      Well known for his series of action adventure novels starring Dirk Pitt, Cussler is also the founder of the nonprofit National Underwater and Marine Agency, a group that searches for shipwrecks of historical significance. The group does not salvage any artifacts; they simply note the wreckage location and turn their information over to appropriate agencies for further study and planning. In this fast-paced narrative that doesn't tinker with the earlier Sea Hunters'
      successful formula, Cussler and his teams search for 300 years' worth of wrecks as varied as La Salle's 17th-century flagship, a dirigible lost in a storm off the New Jersey coast in 1933 and the famous PT-109. Cussler traveled along the coast of Texas, up the Mississippi River and to the jungles of the South Pacific in search of historically important wrecks of all sorts. Cussler first provides the historical background for each tragedy (sometimes inventing dialogue when there are no survivors to interview), then dives into his own adventures. One of Cussler's unsuccessful searches took his team to the Maine wilderness, where they tried to locate the wreckage of a French airplane that crashed in 1927 on its way to Washington, having crossed the Atlantic nonstop, before Charles Lindbergh. On the other hand, his crew found the RMS Carpathia
      (the ship that rescued the survivors of the Titanic), which had been sunk by a German U-boat off the Irish coast in 1918. Cussler's artful writing style and varied experiences while searching for historical treasures make this a first-rate adventure book sure to please any student of history and the odd Pitt fan who takes the plunge. With a 250,000 first printing, many are expected to.

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