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Summary
Summary
Adventure nonfiction at its best by the co-author, with Gene Hackman, of Wake of the Perdido Star.
Submerged is Daniel Lenihan's remarkable story of 25 years as founder and head of the Submerged Cultural Resource Unit (SCRU)--ranging from ancient ruins covered by reservoirs in the desert Southwest to a World War II submarine off the Alaskan coast; from the Isle Royale shipwrecks in the frigid Lake Superior to the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor; from the HL Hunley, the first submarine in history to sink an enemy ship, in Charleston Harbor to the ships sunk by atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll, and much more.
Author Notes
Daniel Lenihan is one of the world's leading underwater archaeologists. He has spent 24 years as founder & head of the elite, award-winning Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (SCRU) team of the U.S. National Park Service.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews 1
Publisher's Weekly Review
Recounting his 25 years as founder and director of the Submerged Cultural Resources Unit the underwater archeological team of the National Park Service Lenihan (Wake of the Perdido Star, with Gene Hackman) offers an entertaining mix of maritime history, memoir and adventure tale. Started in 1975 to keep fortune hunters from looting national water parks for sunken treasure and damaging vital historical material, Lenihan's unit has explored the wondrous (and deadly) sinkholes in Florida and Mexico; studied shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, Micronesia and places in between; and investigated the remains of the USS Arizona and the ships sunk by nuclear bombs near Bikini atoll. While the author is an authority on sea archeology and naval history, he and his divers are also underwater cowboys and cowgirls, thrilling in the dangers of their extreme sport. A sharp, engaging writer, Lenihan describes the terrifying aspects of his work the bone-chilling cold, impenetrable clouds of silt and the notorious bends with a good dose of black humor. (A surreal trip through an old impoundment house submerged in the reservoir of Amistad Dam in Texas is especially haunting.) Fast paced, full of amiable characters, the book will appeal to divers, maritime enthusiasts and anyone fond of nautical hijinks and swaggering seafarers. Photos and maps not seen by PW. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Table of Contents
| Part I Caves, Dams, Shipwrecks, and Dreams | |
| Chapter 1 For Whom the Horn Wails | p. 3 |
| Chapter 2 SCRU | p. 10 |
| Chapter 3 The Florida Caves | p. 17 |
| Chapter 4 Time for a Change | p. 35 |
| Chapter 5 Dry Tortugas | p. 44 |
| Chapter 6 Damming the Past | p. 54 |
| Chapter 7 Return to Xanadu | p. 69 |
| Part II The SCRU Team | |
| Chapter 8 Biscayne: Baptism of Fire | p. 91 |
| Chapter 9 Bully Hayes and Other Sharks | p. 105 |
| Chapter 10 In Our Glory | p. 116 |
| Chapter 11 Isle Royale: Mission Impossible | p. 127 |
| Chapter 12 Pearl Harbor: USS Arizona | p. 145 |
| Chapter 13 Contemplation Vs. Action | p. 158 |
| Chapter 14 Isle Royale: The Final Challenge | p. 166 |
| Chapter 15 Isabella | p. 176 |
| Part III Reaching Out | |
| Chapter 16 Project Seamark | p. 185 |
| Chapter 17 Bikini: Operation Crossroads | p. 199 |
| Chapter 18 The Aleutian Affair | p. 219 |
| Chapter 19 The Micronesian Sweep | p. 230 |
| Chapter 20 Sunken Legacy of the Confederacy | p. 247 |
| Chapter 21 Return to the Tortugas | p. 264 |
| Chapter 22 Pearl 2001: The Adventure Continues | p. 269 |