Clive Cussler Book Collecting: The Sea Hunters Books and Videos

Clive Cussler the Author of many great adventures also is the founder of NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) writes about his searches for historic shipwrecks

Clive began writing novels in 1965 and published his first non-fiction work, The Sea Hunters, released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree. Clive is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, NUMA a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal Agency in his novels) that dedicates itself to preserving American maritime and naval history. Huis crew of marine experts and NUMA Volunteers have discovered more than 60 historical significant underwater wreck sites including the first submarine to sink in battle, the Confederacy's Hunley, and it's victim the Union's Housatonic; the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania; the Cumberland, which was sunk by the iron clad, Merrimack; the renowned Confederate raider Florida; the Navy airship, Akron, the Republic of Texas Navy warship, Zavala, found under a parking lot in Galveston, and the Carpathia, which sunk six years to-the-day after plucking Titanic's survivors from the sea. In September, 1998, NUMA - which turns over all artifacts to State and Federal authorities, or donates them to museums and universities - launched its own web-site for those wishing more information about maritime history or wishing to make donations to the organization. (www.numa.net)

A Steamboat goes up in flames ... and down to the bottom of the sea. A locomotive plunges into a creek ... and vanished into mystery. A German U-boat sends an American troop transport, and eight hundred on board, to a watery grave, on Christmas eve. Clive Cussler and his crack team of NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency, a nonprofit organization that searches for historic shipwrecks) volunteers have found the remains of these and other tragic wrecks.Here for the first time are the dramatic, true accounts of the twelve most remarkable underwater discoveries made by Cussler and his team.As suspenseful and satisfying as the best of his Dirk Pitt novels, The Sea Hunters is a unique story of true commitment and courage.

For twenty-three years, Clive Cussler's NUMA "RM" -- the National Underwater & Marine Agency -- has scoured the rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance. His teams have been inundated by tidal waves, and beset by the vagaries of man and nature, but the results -- and the stories behind them -- have often been dramatic: The 2000 raising of the Confederate submarine Hunley made national headlines.Here, then, are more true tales of sea- and land-going adventures, as Cussler and his crews set out to track down history. The famous ghost ship Mary Celeste, found floating off the Azores in 1872 with no one on board; the Carpathia, the ship that rescued the Titanic survivors and was itself lost to U-boats six years later; L'Oiseau Blanc, the airplane that almost beat The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic before disappearing in the Maine woods -- all these, plus steamboats, ironclads, a seventeenth-century flagship, a certain famous PT boat, and even a dirigible, prove tantalizing targets as Cussler demonstrates again that truth can be "at least as fun, and sometimes stranger, than fiction" (Men's Journal).