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Diving for Treasure.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Verlinden, Vic.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shipwrecks--History.
- Shipwrecks.
- Deep diving.
- Treasure hunting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Caithness : Whittles Publishing, 2018.
- Summary:
- Accounts of diving a variety of wrecks, often containing gold and other valuables, and the exciting stories of diving in often dangerous conditions.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- SS Tubantia - the hunt for gold of the Tubantia
- Departure from Amsterdam
- The Investigation
- Treasure of the Tubantia
- Diving the Tubantia
- SS Elbe - porcelain from the deep
- The collision
- Everyone fights for their life
- Investigation into the disaster
- Diving the Elbe
- SS Justicia - The Dutch Titanic
- The attack
- The final blow
- Dive in the open ocean
- Exploring the bow
- Return to the Dutch Titanic
- The gold seekers of the Renate Leonardt
- Was there gold on board?
- The tower of the gold fishermen
- Only a few metres away from 72 million Guilders
- It has to happen now!
- New candidates show up
- The press takes notice
- The wreck in 2008
- Finally on the wreck myself!
- SS Drummond Castle - on the way to her doom
- Dive into the past
- First survey of the wreck
- Expedition 2000
- SS Leopoldville - the Congo boat torpedoed
- A floating palace
- Christmas Eve 1944
- The rescue operation
- Diving on the Leopoldville
- Further exploration of the wreck
- Diving for treasure
- Entrance in to the machine room
- SS Albertville - a luxury mail ship sinks
- The war years
- A forgotten shipwreck
- A cautious journey
- Exploration of the forecastle
- The frigate Lutine - the golden treasure of the tormentor
- The islanders take their chance
- The first helmet divers enter the wreck
- The English arrive and make a second attempt
- The gold-searcher's tower of Frans Beckers
- The largest tin mining dredger is a marvel
- New Zealanders are struck by gold fever
- Fifteenth search for gold
- Tombstone for Captain Skinner
- The MS Christiaan Huygens - art treasures from a shipwreck
- Antwerp 1945
- A dive into the unknown
- The first bronze statues
- Research in the archive
- Searching the wreck
- SS Natal - collision in the night.
- Save our souls
- An underwater museum at 130m down
- Organisation of a complex dive
- First exploration of the wreck
- Second deep dive in three days
- Roompot - sunk eight miles from her home port
- Beached
- The sinking
- The discovery
- Protected monument
- The theft
- Baloeran - the floating palace
- Taken over by hostile powers
- A loved diving object
- Hugo Geijteman: Wreck diver in heart and soul
- SS Egypt - The gold of the SS Egypt
- Panic on board
- Searching for a needle in a haystack
- The divining rod of Father Innocentius
- Where is the gold?
- Another ship is bought
- Diving expeditions to the wreck
- Testing the equipment
- The decompression of half a working day
- SS Kursk - the crystal of the Tsar
- Storm on the North Sea
- The Kursk is missing
- Unknown wreck at 13 miles
- Diving the Kursk
- SS Leerdam - emigrants and pedigree cattle
- Rescue mission at sea
- Finally back on solid ground
- Salvage of a valuable cargo
- Diving the wreck
- SS Warrior - the lost battle of the HMS Warrior
- Discovery
- Plan your dive and dive your plan
- Trip along the swimming pool
- The SS Laurentic - the record salvage of 43 tons of gold
- A rich cargo
- Salvage fever
- Last attempt
- Diving the Laurentic.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-84995-400-3
- OCLC:
- 1065408462
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