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    GOLD, GALLEONS AND ARCHAEOLOGY
    The history of the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet and the true story of the great Florida treasure find.
    SUNKEN TREASURE: SIX WHO FOUND FORTUNES
    Covers the experiences of : 
    Art McKee, Kip Wagner, Robrt Marx, Burt Webber, Mel Fisher, and Barry Clifford.
    MAN 12,000 YEARS UNDER THE SEA
    SINKINGS, SALVAGES, AND SHIPWRECKS.
    Robert E. Burgess.
    First published in 1970 by American Heritage Press (subsidiary of McGraw-Hill,Inc), New York.
    Hardcover, dustjacket, 188 pages, mono photographs, maps and drawings.
    Covers a bit of everythiong to do with, well, sinkings, salvges and shipwrecks.. Chaptrs include The Archaeology of Shipwrecks; The Missing Monitor, The Doomed Armada, Treasure Trove, The Saga of Silver Shoals, Famous Marin Disasters, The Mystery of the Deadly Bermuda Triangle. Alexander Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe), and William Phips. I havn't rad the book, but its looks very informativ and interesting. 
    THE CAVE DIVERS
    SHIPS BENEATH THE SEA: 
    A HISTORY OF SUBMARINES AND SUBMERSIBLES. 
    Robert F. Burgess. 
    McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, London etc. 1975. The best book I have found on the subject, concisely written, factual and interesting. Introduces Dr. Cornelius Van Drebbel, one of the inventors of the submarine in the seventeenth century; the Eagle and the Turtle of the eighteenth century, and later developments of submarine and submersibles. Hadrcover, dust jacket, 260 pages, many mono photographs. 
    British edition (right) published in 1975 by Robert Hale and Company.
    From the fly:
    Ships Beneath the Sea tells the adventurous story of how a man has challenged the depths. It is a popular history of submarines and submersibles, spanning the centuries from the earliest crude conception in the 13005 to our most sophisticated scientific achievements today. The author shows in fascinating detail the evolution of the first underwater vessel in 1578 into such vessels as the diving bell, the bathysphere, the bathyscaphe and the submarine. He also deals with the many functions of underwater vessels: travel, sea warfare, and scientific research into the geology of the ocean bed. Robert Burgess highlights the personalities and careers of such inventors as Auguste and Jacques Piccard and Jacques Cousteau with an excitement that he communicates to the reader. Illustrated with over 100 photographs and diagrams, this book gives the complete history of the underwater conveyance.

     
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