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Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Dr. Robert Ballard, a marine geologist and an archaeologist explore the Mediterranean, and discover two shipwrecks, the oldest ever found. The ships originated in Phoenicia, burdened with their cargo of wine. Whether their fate was sealed by storms, pirates, or worse will never be known.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"The Monitor Chronicles brings shipboard experience to life through the words of Civil War sailor George S. Geer, whose never-before-published letters home to his beloved wife, Martha, faithfully chronicle the events of that dramatic year. Like many men of his station, George S. Geer had joined Abraham Lincoln's navy less to help save the Union than to earn money and learn a reliable trade, so his accounts are unflinchingly honest - at times colored...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Baiae, an ancient Roman city lost to the same volcanoes that entombed Pompeii. But unlike Pompeii, Baiae sits under water, in the Bay of Naples. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the city was an escape for Rome's rich and powerful elite, a place where they were free of the social restrictions of Roman society.
Pub. Date
♭2016
Description
World War II saw the greatest ever loss of ships and lives at sea. Beneath the ocean lies a hidden graveyard of ships and submarines. Now, we drain this vast graveyard and each vessel tells its tale. From the USS Arizona in Pear Harbor's shallows, whose destruction brought America into the war, to Nazi super-ship the Bismarck three miles down, to the Allies' costly D-Day beachhead and the troopship Leopold, we find that danger still lurks today.
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