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Complete Idiot's Guide to Sunken Ships and Treasures

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ISBN-10: 0028632311

ISBN-13: 9780028632315

Edition: 2000

Authors: Alpha Development Group Staff

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From the Vikings and ancient Chinese junks to the 20th century, this guide based upon maps and records, reveals as much as is known about maritime disasters, including names of ships, dates and locations from all around the world.
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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/10/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Ghost Ships
Bound for Oblivion
The Hidden World of Shipwrecks
Sea of Trouble
Shipwreck Mystery and Mystique
Shipwrecks: Underwater Time Machines
Life and Death at Sea
How We Talk About Lost Ships
Learning from Shipwrecks
Underwater Sleuths
The First Deep-Sea Explorers
Auguste Piccard: Top-to-Bottom Explorer
Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Explorer Extraordinaire
Shipwreck: The Movie
Peering Into the Seas with Sonar
Gearing Up for Going Down
Robert Ballard: Finder of Lost Ships
So Many Wrecks, So Little Time
Wrecks from (A)egean to (Z)uider Zee
Enemies of the Ship: War, Weather, and Worms
Gone but Not Forgotten
Florida's Gold Coast
How Many Shipwrecks Are There?
Skeleton Coasts: The Final Ports of Call
Legacy or Loot?
Souvenir Ships or Sacred Sites?
Profit vs. Knowledge: Salvors vs. Archaeologists
Giving History a Lift: Raising England's Mary Rose
Growing Cooperation Between Treasure Hunters and Archaeologists
Federally Protected American Shipwrecks
The Many Pleasures of Sunken Treasures
Treasure Hunting's Soggy History
Original Sunken-Treasure Hunters
Salvage: As Old as the First Shipwreck
Beachcombers Clean Up
Waterlogged Eye Patches: Pirate Salvors
Sunken Treasure Is Hard to Find!
Old-Fashioned Wreck Hunting
Accidental Encounters of the Rich Kind
Net Proceeds
El Nuevo Constante
A Divining Moment
A Breath of Fresh Air
Deep-Thinking Inventors
Diving Bells Ring Up Recoveries
Scuba: Now Everyone's a Treasure Hunter
How Low Can They Go?
Inches from Millions
Clearing the Underwater Fog
Metal Detectors: Not Just for Geeks
Don't Get Mad; Get MAD!
Helpful Fish Stories
Knowledge by the Galleon
Fish Scales of Justice: Modern Salvage Law
Who Owns What
A Piece of the Wreck
Arresting a Ship
Deep Wrecks: Whose Law Applies?
The Titanic: No Peeking!
The Government's Wrecks
Shipwrecks: Oldies with Goodies
The Oldest Wreck
The Uluburun Wreck: History's Oldest
A Cargo of Clues Answers Bronze Age Questions
A Decade of Underwater Archaeology at Uluburun
Unraveling the Origins of the Uluburun Wreck
Rich Diaster: Wreck of the 1622 Treasure Fleet
Spain's 1622 Treasure Fleet
Sailing Toward Destruction
Spain Attempts to Salvage Its Fortune
Mel Fisher's Search for the Atocha and Margarita
The Atocha's Deadly Curse
Finding the Treasure
The Belle of the Bay
La Salle Did It All
La Salle Was No Columbus
River! What River?
Goodbye Mississippi; Hello Cannibals
Texas Wrecks
Looking for La Belle
Wedding Bells and Death Knells
Double Your Money: The 1715 Treasure Fleet
Setting Sail
Hurricane!
Salvaging Spain's Treasure
Treasure Regulation
Tourist Attraction
A Rose Blossoms Again
Mary Rose: England's Pride
The Final Battle
Early Salvage Attempts
Lost and Found Again
Up, Up, and Away
A Bountiful Tale
The Harsh Era of the HMS Bounty
The Bounty's Silly Breadfruit Mission
Cruel Capt. Bligh and Mutinous Mr. Christian
Mutiny
The Tragic Getaway of the Mutineers
Finding the Bounty's Wreck
Wreck of the Royal Charter
Outback Gold Rush
Record Breaker: The Royal Charter
Famous and Fast
Final Voyage Home
Pocket Money
Storm of the Century
It Takes a Village to Raise a Fortune
Laying the Blame
Slow Death of the SS Central America
Thar's Gold in Them Thar Depths
A Fight for Life
Quest for Gold
The Long Search
High-Technology Recovery
The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall
Never Say Never: The Titanic
Hype, Hope, and Bad Luck
Abandon Ship!
Decades of Speculation
Discovery
Marketing History
Amazing Rescue: The Andrea Doria
The Pride of Italy
Floating Art Gallery
Modern Design
Knifed by the Stockholm
The Rescue
Courtroom Drama
Diving's Fatal Mecca
The Torpedo That Launched a Thousand Ships
Fast and Fabulous
Fog of War
Death Blow
Sinking Into Mystery
Owning the Lusitania
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Edmund Fitzgerald: Pride of the American Side
Fighting the Storm
Disappearance of the "Big Fitz"
Investigating the Wreck
Visiting the Fitz
Sleeping Warriors
The Strange Story of the Japanese Submarine 1-52
Unusual Mission
Atlantic Ambush
The Deepest Treasure
Uplifting Proposal
Honoring the Dead
Cold, Cold Cache
Rescuing Stalin's Gold
Slow Death
Finder of the Edinburgh
A Grave Undertaking
Treasure Trouble
The Cold War's Deepest Mystery: The USS Scorpion
Sleek and Deadly
The Newest Technology
Cold War Pressures
Final Mission
The Mystery Begins
Myths and Evidence
Pirates and Other Treasure Hunters
"Today's the Day!": Mel Fisher, King of Treasure Hunters
Hatching a Scuba Pioneer
Treasure Fever
The King Fisher of Controversy
Victory and Tragedy
Endless Treasure
The Rudest Treasure Hunters
Piracy: The Eternal Scourge
Caribbean Sea Robbers
The Pirate Life
Piracy's Garden
Horror, Hype, and Punishment
Sunken Treasure: Spain's Accidental Gift
Columbus: The Man with the Plan
A Few More Pesos, Please
Golden Dreams
Cracking the Treasure Chest: Mexico's Conquest
Spain's Treasure Addiction
The Spanish Treasure Fleet
Pennies from Heaven
A Cool (and Wet) $100 Billion
The Treasure Funnel
Fidel Wants His Booty
Expeditions Beckon
Treacherous Investment Waters
Notable Pirates
The Queen's Own Pirate
The Bold Henry Morgan
Blackbeard: Wild, Weird, and Mean?
Lafitte: Patriotic Plunderer
Words to Treasure Glossary
Deepen Your Knowledge
Notable Shipwrecks
Index