Description
All the drama of shipwrecks and the excitement of discovering valuable treasure comes vividly to life in 39 educational and entertaining illustrations: divers gathering jar-like containers from an ancient Greek shipwreck, a Roman merchant ship in a storm, the remains of a Viking ship, the Swedish warship Vasa, the British ship, Mary Rose, soon after sinking to the ocean floor in 1545, a German U-boat sinking an English freighter in 1917, an underwater archaeology team, sinking of Titanic and sunken Titanic as she appears today, historic diving suits and scuba, types of sharks plus valuable background information to an impressive archive that spans 5,000 years of naval history. 48 pages.
