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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

Gary Kinder
4.30/5 (4385 ratings)
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"White knuckle reading...with generous portions of adventure, intrigue, heroism, and high technology interwoven."
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

This enthralling true story of maritime tragedy and visionary science begins with a disaster to rival the sinking of the Titanic.

In September 1857, the S.S. Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the gold fields of California, went down during a hurricane off the Carolina coast. More than 400 men--and 21 tons of gold--were lost. In the 1980s, a maverick engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck and salvage its treasure from the ocean floor.

With knuckle-biting suspense, Gary Kinder reconstructs the terror of the Central America 's last days, when passengers bailed freezing water from the hold, then chopped the ship's timbers to use as impromptu liferafts. He goes on to chronicle Thompson's epic quest for the lost vessel, an endeavor that drew on the latest strides in oceanography, information theory, and underwater robotics, and that pitted Thompson against hair-raising weather, bloodthirsty sharks, and unscrupulous rivals.

Ship of Gold is a magnificent adventure, filled with heroism, ingenuity, and perseverance.
Format:
Pages:
552 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
English Language, Edition Unstated
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0375703373
ISBN13:
9780375703379
kindle Asin:
B008V43RXE

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

Gary Kinder
4.30/5 (4385 ratings)
Read Download
"White knuckle reading...with generous portions of adventure, intrigue, heroism, and high technology interwoven."
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

This enthralling true story of maritime tragedy and visionary science begins with a disaster to rival the sinking of the Titanic.

In September 1857, the S.S. Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the gold fields of California, went down during a hurricane off the Carolina coast. More than 400 men--and 21 tons of gold--were lost. In the 1980s, a maverick engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck and salvage its treasure from the ocean floor.

With knuckle-biting suspense, Gary Kinder reconstructs the terror of the Central America 's last days, when passengers bailed freezing water from the hold, then chopped the ship's timbers to use as impromptu liferafts. He goes on to chronicle Thompson's epic quest for the lost vessel, an endeavor that drew on the latest strides in oceanography, information theory, and underwater robotics, and that pitted Thompson against hair-raising weather, bloodthirsty sharks, and unscrupulous rivals.

Ship of Gold is a magnificent adventure, filled with heroism, ingenuity, and perseverance.
Format:
Pages:
552 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
English Language, Edition Unstated
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0375703373
ISBN13:
9780375703379
kindle Asin:
B008V43RXE

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