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The Sea Hunters by Cussler, Clive, Dirgo, Craig is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Sea Hunters about?
In The Sea Hunters, his first nonfiction book, Cussler explores the special world of undersea adventure that inspired and has its fictional parallel in the Dirk Pitt novels. He describes his lifelong love for the sea and ships, and how his involvement with the search for John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary War ship, the Bonhomme Richard, led to his establishing the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and preservation of historic shipwrecks. From the more than sixty shipwrecks Cussler and his NUMA volunteers have found, he has chosen the twelve most interesting, whether because of the ship's history, the circumstances of its sinking, or the trouble, frustration, and peril that were encountered while trying to find the sunken wreck. With the same wonderful storytelling that Cussler brings to his novels, he describes his searches for such ships as the Union 24-gun frigate Cumberland, sunk during the Civil War by the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly the Merrimack); the Confederate Hunley, which became the first submarine in history to sink a warship; the U-21, a German U-boat, which during World War
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- Author
- Cussler, Clive, Dirgo, Craig
- Publisher
- Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781568954073
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- History, Anthropology, Adventure
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (200 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (2003)
- The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (2002)
- The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (2011)
- The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (1996)
- The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (1994)
- The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (2012)
- Cacciatori Del Mare (2015)
- Cacciatori Del Mare (1999)
- The Sea Hunters True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks by Cussler, Clive (1996)
- Cacciatori Del Mare (2004)
- The Sea Hunters (1994)
- The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (1997)
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