This comprehensive guide is for both beginning and advanced divers. It tells how to find wrecks, details the equipment and techniques needed, explains safety concerns, and teaches how to recover artifacts and preserve them.
Henry Keatts is a professor of biology and oceanography at Suffolk Community College on Long Island, New York. In addition to being widely published in his field, he is the author of New England's Legacy of Shipwrecks, Field Guide to Sunken U-Boats, and Guide to Shipwreck Diving: New York and New Jersey, and the co-author of the Dive Into History series (U-boats, warships and U.S. submarines). Keatts is a fellow of the Explorers Club, an associate member of the Boston Sea Rovers, and an honorary member of the Gillmen Club and the Adirondack Underwater Explorers. He is president of the American Society of Oceanographers. His photographs have been published in numerous books and magazine articles.
Brian Skerry is an assignment photographer for National Geographic Magazine specializing in elusive underwater subject matter. Working in diverse environments, including the open ocean, beneath ice, inside caves and in saturation, Brian has photographed a wide variety of subjects. One of his primary subjects has been shipwrecks having explored and photographed hundreds of wrecks, such as the Andrea Doria, USS Monitor, the pirate ship Whydah and the wrecks of the D-Day invasion off Normandy. His images have appeared in numerous magazines including People, Sports Illustrated, US News and World Report, Smithsonian, Esquire, Audubon, Outdoor Life, Wildlife Conservation, Yankee, Maxim, and Men's Journal. He lives in Massachusetts.