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Submerged

by Daniel Lenihan
Adventure writing at its best, Submerged is the first book on the remarkable story of America's elite underwater archeology team. Daniel Lenihan recounts experiences from his 25 years as founder and head of the award- winning Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (SCRU) team of the US Natinal Park Service, world-class divers - talented archaeologists, historians, and photographers - charged with the mission of surveying, mapping, investigationg, and protecting the shipwrecks and sites that constitute America's sunken heritage. In Submerged, Lenihan takes us on a keleidoscope of the team's underwater experiences from 1975 to the present - from Florida caves to ancient ruins covered bhy reservoirs in the desert Southwest; to a WWII Japanese submarine off the Alaskan coast; to the lower rings of hell to retrieve the bodies of drowned divers; to gripping accounts of personal survival in underwater caves, ships, and submerged buildings. Displaying a passion for extreme diving combined with disciplined professionalism as part ranger-archaeologists, the SCRU team tackles astonishing, often harrowing assignments..... A recollection of adventures, triumphs, failures, and close calls, as a group of archeologists and technicians were charged with finding and preserving historic shipwrecks and other important sites of American heritage. 'The action throughout is fast paced and exciting, some of it surprising, and all of it drenched in saltwater and realistic descriptions of the period's seamanship, underwater salvage operations and deep-sea diving.' The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hard cover, full colour, 287 pages, 16x24.

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