miketsp
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How about this book?
SEA FEVER
The real life stories of the scientists, treasure divers, and archaeologists engged in exploring and developing man's knowlewdge of the oceans.
Robert F. Marx.
Published in 1972 by Doubleday & Co, New York.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 250 pages, mono photographs.
"An encounter with a giant moray eel; the discovery of the wreck of a bronzeage ship; experiencing nitrogen narcosis or "rapture of the deeps" - these are only three of the things that happened to the scientists, archaeologists and treasure diver's whose stories are told in this book. You'll meet people like Pablo Bush Romero (a top authority on Mexican archaeology and leader of an expedition to the Mayan remains at the Sacred
Well of Chichen-itza ), Kip Wagner (the only treasure hunter who became a millionaire through his finds), and Eugenie Clark (director of a marine laboratory and one of the world's leading authorities on sharks). But, whatever their particular interest, they share a love of seas, lakes and other bodies of water aild an overwhelming desire to probe their mysteries; a trait that seems, from the discovery of deepwater shells and other artifacts in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia to have existed in mankind foir 6000 years."
Covers the life and achievements of: Art McKee, Tom Gurr, Pablo Bush Romero, Norman Scott, Anders Franzen, Eugie Clark, Kip Wagner, Mel Fisher, Hannes Keller, Teddy Tucker, Dimitri Rebikoff, Ed Link, Peter Throckmorton, George Bass, Neal Watson, Jacques Piccard. This is an important work, although you wouldn't think so from the blurb on the front fly - 'an encounter with a giant moray, experiencing rapturs of the deep' - the publishers are directing this book to the general reader looking for sensationalism. It i s too important a work to be promoted with such drivel. Wonder why Marx doesn't mention Harry Reiseberg. This book reminds me of Terry Norton's excellent book Stars beneath the Sea, published in 1999, which is also about diving pioneers.
SEA FEVER
The real life stories of the scientists, treasure divers, and archaeologists engged in exploring and developing man's knowlewdge of the oceans.
Robert F. Marx.
Published in 1972 by Doubleday & Co, New York.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 250 pages, mono photographs.
"An encounter with a giant moray eel; the discovery of the wreck of a bronzeage ship; experiencing nitrogen narcosis or "rapture of the deeps" - these are only three of the things that happened to the scientists, archaeologists and treasure diver's whose stories are told in this book. You'll meet people like Pablo Bush Romero (a top authority on Mexican archaeology and leader of an expedition to the Mayan remains at the Sacred
Well of Chichen-itza ), Kip Wagner (the only treasure hunter who became a millionaire through his finds), and Eugenie Clark (director of a marine laboratory and one of the world's leading authorities on sharks). But, whatever their particular interest, they share a love of seas, lakes and other bodies of water aild an overwhelming desire to probe their mysteries; a trait that seems, from the discovery of deepwater shells and other artifacts in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia to have existed in mankind foir 6000 years."
Covers the life and achievements of: Art McKee, Tom Gurr, Pablo Bush Romero, Norman Scott, Anders Franzen, Eugie Clark, Kip Wagner, Mel Fisher, Hannes Keller, Teddy Tucker, Dimitri Rebikoff, Ed Link, Peter Throckmorton, George Bass, Neal Watson, Jacques Piccard. This is an important work, although you wouldn't think so from the blurb on the front fly - 'an encounter with a giant moray, experiencing rapturs of the deep' - the publishers are directing this book to the general reader looking for sensationalism. It i s too important a work to be promoted with such drivel. Wonder why Marx doesn't mention Harry Reiseberg. This book reminds me of Terry Norton's excellent book Stars beneath the Sea, published in 1999, which is also about diving pioneers.
