Ship of Gold within the Deep Blue Sea: The Historical past and Discovery of the World’s Richest Shipwreck
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“Titanic meets Tom Clancy expertise” on this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (Individuals).
September 1875. With almost 600 passengers coming back from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank 200 miles off the Carolina coast. Greater than 4 hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold have been misplaced. It was a tragedy misplaced in legend for greater than a century—till an excellent younger engineer named Tommy Thompson got down to discover the wreck.
Pushed by scientific curiosity and resentful of the time period “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean flooring utilizing historic accounts, cutting-edge sonar expertise, and an underwater robotic of his personal design. Navigating grasping traders, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage crew, Thompson lastly positioned the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk together with her recovered treasure: gold cash, bars, nuggets, and mud, plus steamer trunks stuffed with interval garments, newspapers, books, and journals.
An amazing American journey story, Ship of Gold within the Deep Blue Sea can also be an interesting account of the science, expertise, and engineering that opened Earth’s remaining frontier, offering “white-knuckle studying, as thrilling as something . . . in The Good Storm” (Los Angeles Occasions Ebook Assessment).
“A posh, bittersweet historical past of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Leisure Weekly
“A ripping true story of hazard and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Put up
“What a yarn! . . . In the event you signal on for the cruise, go in figuring out that you just’re going to overlook meals and a number of sleep.” —Newsweek
September 1875. With almost 600 passengers coming back from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank 200 miles off the Carolina coast. Greater than 4 hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold have been misplaced. It was a tragedy misplaced in legend for greater than a century—till an excellent younger engineer named Tommy Thompson got down to discover the wreck.
Pushed by scientific curiosity and resentful of the time period “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean flooring utilizing historic accounts, cutting-edge sonar expertise, and an underwater robotic of his personal design. Navigating grasping traders, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage crew, Thompson lastly positioned the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk together with her recovered treasure: gold cash, bars, nuggets, and mud, plus steamer trunks stuffed with interval garments, newspapers, books, and journals.
An amazing American journey story, Ship of Gold within the Deep Blue Sea can also be an interesting account of the science, expertise, and engineering that opened Earth’s remaining frontier, offering “white-knuckle studying, as thrilling as something . . . in The Good Storm” (Los Angeles Occasions Ebook Assessment).
“A posh, bittersweet historical past of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Leisure Weekly
“A ripping true story of hazard and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Put up
“What a yarn! . . . In the event you signal on for the cruise, go in figuring out that you just’re going to overlook meals and a number of sleep.” —Newsweek
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