Sunken Treasure: Six Who Found Fortunes [Paperback]

Robert F. Burgess (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2000

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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"Secrets of the world's most successful treasure salvagers told in a way that puts you right there with them!" -- s you right there with them!"

"Secrets of the world's most successful treasure salvors told in a way that puts your right there with them!" -- Spyglass Publications

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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Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Backinprint.Com (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595092713
• ISBN-13: 978-0595092710
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,634,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Living the Treasure Island life!, November 7, 2000

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Eric Zillmer (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sunken Treasure: Six Who Found Fortunes (Paperback)

Here are the real life stories of those daring few who risked everything, and sometimes suffered greatly, searching for the fabled sunken treasures from centuries ago. Read how gold fever consumed these treasure hunters, driving them into amazing perils and through many years with little to show for their efforts. Read also how they eventually hit it BIG! A great mix of gripping adventure telling, technical explanations, and historical fact. Lots of great photos, too. A word of caution, though: you'll find yourself packing for Florida when you hear about tales of treasure that still wash up on its shores, even to this day!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great, April 9, 2001

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Steve Jeltz (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sunken Treasure: Six Who Found Fortunes (Paperback)

This book was a quick read, chronicling the exploits of six treasure hunters and their efforts to recover some of the billions of dollars worth of treasure sitting at the bottom of the oceans. Although the accounts were interesting, I would have preferred a bit more historical context of the ships they were searching, along more post-find follow up (ex, more information on where the treasure ended up, etc). I also found that the inforamtion on all of the stories was presented the same way -- the way the story was built up all the way to the discovery of treasure became very anti-climatic after the 4th or 5th example. It's also fun to discover the words that are spelled incorrectly.