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Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Robert F. Burgess
Publisher: Dissertation.com
ISBN: 9780595006328
Category : Salvage
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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What was it like to have been aboard a doomed treasure ship destroyed by hurricane on the Florida coast. . . and then, 255 years later, to be the first to find the treasure?!? Or to walk the sunken streets of Port Royal and hear the bell toll in the tower? It all lives again as Robert Burgess puts you into these exciting true sea tales. Fully illustrated.

Author: Robert Forrest Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780070089563
Category : Salvage
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: David West
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1448878519
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Shares stories of shipwrecks, including the Titanic, the Mary Rose, and the Monitor.

Author: Joe Gores
Publisher:
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Category : Navy School of Diving & Salvage (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Author: Cathie Cush
Publisher: Friedman-Fairfax
ISBN: 9781567994759
Category : Oversize books
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Profiles some of the world's most famous shipwrecks and discusses the people who died in them, the cargo that was lost, and the efforts to find where they are located.

Author: Adam M. Grohman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578008076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Claimed by the Sea - Long Island Shipwrecks - provides an intimate look at eleven shipwrecks and maritime disasters that occurred in the waters of New York and Long Island. Diver, researcher and author Adam Grohman dives into the archives to explore the histories of various wrecks including the Savannah, Lexington, U.S.S. Ohio, Circassian, Seawanhaka, Oregon, Louis V. Place, General Slocum, U.S.S. San Diego, Andrea Doria, and the Gwendoline Steers. The chapters provide an in depth history of the vessel, the circumstances surrounding their eventual demise, and subsequent exploration by divers and explorers. Claimed by the Sea is heavily illustrated and contains extensive footnotes, source listings and several appendices including a glossary of nautical and diving terminology. Claimed by the Sea is an excellent opportunity for armchair historians and seasoned underwater explorers to dip beneath the waves of history to explore the tragedy and triumph of man versus the sea.

Author: Lee W. Merideth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780962623790
Category : Cruise ships
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Fascinating, lesser-known facts about the Titanic and details on the ship, the passengers, and the sinking. The book also explores aspects of the wreck today and salvage operations.

Author: David Frew
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625850859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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A history of Lake Erie’s most mysterious and notorious wrecks and disappearances. The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sudden waves and wildly shifting sandbars. The steamer Atlantic succumbed to these conditions when, in 1852, a late-night collision brought sixty-eight of its weary immigrant passengers to watery graves. The 1916 Black Friday Storm sank four ships—including the “unsinkable” James B. Colgate—in the course of its twenty-hour tantrum over the lake. In 1954, a difficult fishing season sent the Richard R into troubled waters in the hopes of catching a few more fish. One of the lake's sudden storms drowned the boat and three-man crew. At just fifty miles wide and 200 miles long, Lake Erie has claimed more ships per square mile than any other body of freshwater. Author David Frew dives deep to discover the mysteries of some of Lake Erie’s most notorious wrecks. “Well-illustrated with maps, historic and contemporary photographs, and various advertisements and news announcements, Frew’s engaging study ends with a reasoned, historically grounded discussion of the question, “Is Lake Erie’s shipwreck era over?” —OHS Bulletin

Author: Matthew E. Keith
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813055695
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Many factors influence the formation of shipwreck sites: the materials from which the ship was built, the underwater environment, and subsequent events such as human activity, storms, and chemical reactions. In this first volume to comprehensively catalogue the physical and cultural processes affecting submerged ships, Matthew Keith brings together experts in diverse fields such as geology, soil and wood chemistry, micro- and marine biology, and sediment dynamics. The case studies identify and examine the natural and anthropogenic processes--corrosion and degradation on one hand, fishing and trawling on the other--that contribute to the present condition of shipwreck sites. The contributors also discuss how these varied and often overlapping events influence the archaeological record. Offering an in-depth analysis of emerging technologies and methods—acoustic positioning, computer modeling, and site reconstruction--this is an essential study for the research and preservation of submerged heritage sites.