Somewhere on the seabed of the Atlanctic ocean lie two casualties of the Second World War: a Japanese submarine, the I-52 and the liner SS Aurelia. Separated by almost a thousand miles of ocean and sunk more than fifteen months apart, these two vessels have one thing in common - they were both carrying several tons of gold. In October 1994, James-Hamilton-Paterson was invited to join Project Orca, a team of people who set out to tray and find the wrecks and the gold. For their expedition, the group chartered the russian ...
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Somewhere on the seabed of the Atlanctic ocean lie two casualties of the Second World War: a Japanese submarine, the I-52 and the liner SS Aurelia. Separated by almost a thousand miles of ocean and sunk more than fifteen months apart, these two vessels have one thing in common - they were both carrying several tons of gold. In October 1994, James-Hamilton-Paterson was invited to join Project Orca, a team of people who set out to tray and find the wrecks and the gold. For their expedition, the group chartered the russian research ship, R/V Akademik Keldysh, with its crew of dedicated oceanographers and its world-famous MIR submersibles. Hamilton-Paterson chronicles the tensions which arose between the British 'buccaneers' and their Russian hosts who, in the aftermath of the collapse of communism, have had to fund their scientific research by resentfully taking on commercial work. Yet this book is so much more than the tale of a hunt for 'filthy lucre'. James Hamilton-Paterson gives one of the rare eye-witness accounts by a non-scientist of what it is like to free-fall to the sea bed for three hours in a tiny sphere two metres in diameter, and spend the next fourteen hours drifting about in a lightless world of dunes and outcrops.
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Add this copy of Three Miles Down: a Hunt for Sunken Treasure to cart. $11.95, very good condition, Sold by Judith Patton rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Burlington, ON, CANADA, published 1998 by J. Cape.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. pp.296 color photos. clean tight copy but for tanning to text pages minuscule edge and corner wear Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
Add this copy of Three Miles Down to cart. $16.31, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.
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