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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - [AUDIOBOOK]
epub, m4b | 107.18 MB | Author: Gary Kinder | Year: 1998
Description :
"Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology" in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America's wreckage and discovery (People).
September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century-until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck.
Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term "treasure hunt," Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals.
A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth's final frontier, providing "white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review) .
"A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold." - Entertainment Weekly
"A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea." - The Washington Post
"What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you're going to miss meals and a lot of sleep." - Newsweek
Category: Transportation, History, Aviation, World History, Ships & Shipbuilding, Exploration & Discovery, Aviation Accidents & Disasters, Shipwrecks & Underwater Exploration, Steamboats
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