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Diving for Sunken Treasure

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As I began to read this book again after a gap of so many years since I first settled down to enjoy these excellent stories of ships, shipwrecks, divers and treasures (what more could I ever want from any single book!), I found myself willing the Cousteau on in their quest to find those hidden treasures.

This is a gripping tale - told only as the legendary Jacques Cousteau could tell and one almost hears his gravely French voice narrating quietly as you read.

One of the best features of all the books in this series, however, are the appendices. In this case we have additional sections on; America before Columbus - The Mayas and Incas, The Conquistadors and the battles between the Spanish and local Indians, Sailing Ships and the great men who sailed them and a glossary of terms which explains how slave ships were fitted to accommodate the maximum number of slaves.

Without those appendices, I would have understood less of the book's main content. It is therefore, a most complete work on the subject and one that still stands the test of time as a first rate book for scuba divers.

In summary, this series of books are timeless and I make the same comment that, in my opinion, no scuba diver's bookshelf is complete without a copy of this and other books in the same series. - but be quick, they will not remain available forever.

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