Diving For Pleasure And Treasure
Title | Diving For Pleasure And Treasure PDF eBook |
Author | Clay Blair Jr. |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | 457 |
Release | 2015-11-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1786253321 |
This unique book covers the author, Clay Blair Jr., and Robert Marx’s diving adventures from the search for the Monitor off of Cape Hatteras, to the discovery of the Spanish treasure galleon “El Matanzero” off the coast of Yucatan. This book is also a practical guide for those skin divers who want to search for greater rewards: how to dig on a wreck and identify finds. The appendix includes extracts of 10 documents from the Archives of the Indies, in Seville, Spain, concerning the ship Nuestra Señora De Los Milagros, also known as El Matanzero.
Diving for Pleasure and Treasure
Title | Diving for Pleasure and Treasure PDF eBook |
Author | Clay Blair |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 1969 |
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Diving for Pleasure and Treasure, with Photographs by Walter Bennett
Title | Diving for Pleasure and Treasure, with Photographs by Walter Bennett PDF eBook |
Author | Clay Blair |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 1960 |
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National Oceanographic Program - 1965
Title | National Oceanographic Program - 1965 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 748 |
Release | 1964 |
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Treasure Lost at Sea
Title | Treasure Lost at Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Robert F. Marx |
Publisher | Firefly Books |
Total Pages | 126 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Shipwrecks |
ISBN | 9781552978726 |
The vast hidden world of sunken treasure. With less than 2% of the world's ocean depths explored to date, a myriad of unimagined mysteries and treasures await discovery. Treasure Lost at Sea chronicles the excitement of underwater archaeology and search for treasure. The book recounts the major periods and geographic locations of shipwrecks. Chapters include: The classical world Scandinavian shipwrecks The age of discovery The Spanish galleons Bermuda, graveyard of ships Privateers, pirates and mutineers Deep-water shipwrecks (Bismarck, Titanic, and others) Port Royal: The sunken city The lively text details the potential treasure as well as the political turf wars, technological limitations, and forces of nature that threaten any mission's success. Humanity's long history of exploration, civilization, trade and war is littered with sunken vessels. Colorful and richly illustrated, Treasure Lost at Sea will inspire a new generation of underwater archaeologists.
National Oceanographic Program -- 1965
Title | National Oceanographic Program -- 1965 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 740 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Oceanography |
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Committee Serial No. 88-23. Includes Interagency Committee on Oceanography reports "University Curricula in Oceanography," June 1963 (p. 205-368); "Oceanography -- The Ten Years Ahead," June 1963 (p. 427-492); "National Oceanographic Program -- Fiscal Year 1964," April 1963 (p. 497-565); and "National Oceanographic Program -- Fiscal Year 1965," Mar. 1964 (p. 569-620).
Hearings
Title | Hearings PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1764 |
Release | 1964 |
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