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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 930.102804
EAN num: 9780743480697
ISBN number: 0743480694
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 432
Printing Date: 2003-08
Publishing house: Pocket Star
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 84203
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FROM THE CREATOR OF DIRK PITT® -- THE WORLD'S #1 ACTION HERO...REAL STORIES. REAL EXCITEMENT. REAL ADVENTURE.
THE SEA HUNTERS
A steamboat goes up in flames...and down to the bottom of the sea. A locomotive plunges into a creek...and vanishes into mystery. A German U-boat sends an American troop transport, and eight hundred on board, to a watery grave...on Christmas Eve.
Clive Cussler and his crack team of NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency, a nonprofit organization that searches for historic shipwrecks) volunteers have found the remains of these and numerous other tragic wrecks. Here are the dramatic, true accounts of twelve of the most remarkable underwater discoveries made by Cussler and his team. As suspenseful and satisfying as the best of his Dirk Pitt novels, The Sea Hunters is a unique story of true commitment and courage.
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this book is different from cusslers novels, it is many historical stories of the search for famious shipwrecks.
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This book was great, as always with this author. Even more so since the stories were based on fact.
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Dusting off Dirk Pitt novels for a bit, Clive Cussler took some time to write "The Sea Hunters" True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks." In it, Cussler writes a small dramatization of what might have happened to certain ships, from the terror of the Mississippi that was the C.S.S. Arkansas, to the wretched misfortune of the Leopoldville. After each dramatization, Cussler then explains the actions taken by himself and his group, NUMA, as the seek out each of these wrecks. Some of them are successful hunts, while others end with less impressive results.
The group finds wrecks in some of the strangest places. They uncover one ship in a parking lot on Galveston Island. They also "find" a locomotive in Colorado that was washed down river when a storm destroyed the train tracks. I won't spoil want they actually find on that particular case, but it does have a slightly humorous result.
Cussler seems to be more relaxed with his writing style in this particular book. He attempts to come off as an egotistical lurch, but it is easy to realize that this man really enjoys what he is doing. His enthusiasm is what keeps this book afloat, and it makes for a fun read that's just as good or better than his Dirk Pitt books.
Highly recommended to fans of nautical history, especially those interested in the Confederate Navy. Cussler reveals quite a few gems in the Rebel fleet. My personal favorite is the aforementioned C.S.S. Arkansas. Until I read this book, I had never heard of it. But much like Cussler says in this book, "The winners write the history."
A very nice read.
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This book is mostly non-fiction in that the greatest emphasis is on the real activities Cussler and NUMA members go through to find different ships (and a train). If you love his fiction stories of Dirk Pitt and Steve Austin then you'll get a little sense of what is in this book. Multiple short stories of different catastrophes at sea or in other waters. He dramatizes each catastrophe detailing what (he believes) happened to the crewmembers and the ship (or train) in the last hours of its life--these seem very realistic. Fast forward to yesterday and he documents all the research and interviewing of witnesses (if they are still alive) he does in order to prove or disprove the historical records of where the wreck is located. He finally details the long, boring hours of trolling with a magnetometer to find the wreck. He admits that these are boring. When he spends a lot of time on those details that makes the stories somewhat boring too. What I thought was fascinating was the research, his sifting through multiple conflicting pieces of evidence and how he sometimes comes to the conculusion that the historical record was wrong and the wreck was actually in a different place, how after he finishes searching for the wreck, he does find it within a 1/2 mile of where he expected to find it and sometimes tens of miles away from the officially recorded location. To me this is much like a good detective story.
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I bought and read this book because I've -- literally -- bought and ready every other Cussler book.
Frankly, I found this one a bit of a bore. Not bad... but not why I read Cussler.
I'm going to stick with Cussler's fiction.
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