Sunken Treasure: Six Who Found Fortunes - Softcover

Burgess, Robert F

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595092713 ISBN 13: 9780595092710

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

Sunken Treasure is the riveting true life adventures of six of the world's most successful treasure divers. Author and underwater photographer Robert F. Burgess, who has dived on some of these treasure wrecks, tell how each of these divers got into the business, how they survived, and why they were successful in finding sucken fortunes whose hiding places fooled centuries of other searchers. From Burgess' many photographs and interviews with these treasure hunters we learn the trade secrets of how they were able to successfully recover millions of dollars worth of centuries old Spanish treasure from the ocean floor.

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About the Author

Robert F. Burgess who grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, built his first diving gear from an old WWII gas mask, gas station air hose, and a gasoline-powered air compressor, to dive down to an old shipwreck near Lake Michigan in 1944. An active scuba diver he has spent his life writing about adventure above and below water. With his wife he motor-scootered across Europe and boated halfway to Africa to live on the Mediterranean island of Majorca where he wrote a book about it. His books about sailing, shipwrecks, sharks, treasure diving, cave diving, and underwater archaeology are acclaimed for the author's ability to put the reader in the midst of the action. He met Ernest Hemingway in Pamplona and recently he returned there to back-track Hemingway into the Spanish Pyrenees while researching his latest book titled, Hemingway's Paris and Pamplona, Then and Now. Between trips, Mr. Burgess resides with his wife and a 6-toed cat named Pookie, in north Florida.

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"How that first plunge snapped them back to reality, made their teeth clamp onto their rubber mouthpieces, made them hyperventilate in their mad scramble for the bottom, arms outstretched to embrace a fortune, eyes bugged wide! The fever was on them and there was no denying it. Only the hefty feel of silver coins in their eager hands and the cold grip of the Atlantic would in time provide any surcease to the kind of fever they felt. Soon they started popping to the surface like corks. tight-fisted, arms held out of water, wide grins behind their masks. They came to the boat with hands clenched over coins and handed them up to Wagner. Then down they went again, like children gleefully picking dandelions in a grassy glade and hurrying back to shower them on their beaming parents."

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595092713
• ISBN 13: 9780595092710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350