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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.

     
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