Sunken Treasure: Six Who Found Fortunes

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Summary: Living the Treasure Island life!
Review: 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!

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Summary: Good but not great
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Good but not great
Review: 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.