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Shipwreck Heresies (Paperback)
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Shipwreck Heresies (Paperback)
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Loot Price R560
Discovery Miles 5 600
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This volume is a collection of short subjects that are
controversial in nature. Leading the contentions is a history of
the Abandoned Shipwreck Act. In this chapter is the story of how
the Act was passed by only two senators, who sneaked into the
closed chamber in order to pass unfavorable legislation that could
not have been passed by honest means. Following this is an in-depth
study of the U.S. destroyer Murphy: how the wreck was identified;
how the Naval Criminal Investigative Service threatened to
prosecute those who identified it; and how one diver's bid for sole
access to the site led to the unlawful introduction and secret
passage of a bill that appropriated all sunken U.S. Navy craft
anywhere in the world. The book ends with a 70-page retrospection
of Shadow Divers Exposed: what juvenile and irrational critiques
were made against it, and by whom; how the truthfulness of the book
has been vindicated; and how new evidence has established that the
U-869 had been discovered and dived three years prior to events
that were related in Shadow Divers: the greatest literary hoax in
publishing history. In between these extraordinary disquisitions
are chapters on other shipwrecks that have created nationwide
controversies: the Civil War ironclad Monitor, the Hamilton and
Scourge (U.S. Navy warships from the War of 1812, and which are now
controlled by the Canadian government), the treasure wrecks Brother
Jonathan and El Cazador, and the World War One ocean liner
Lusitania. Also included is "The Stellwagen Bank Robbery," a
scathing review of NOAA's illegal activities in the Stellwagen Bank
National Marine Sanctuary: its refusal to release public
information, its ambition to prevent public access to wreck sites,
and its program to expand sanctuary boundaries (in particular,
Thunder Bay, Stellwagen, and the Monitor - the latter to eventually
encompass the entire Outer Banks, and all the U-boats and merchant
vessels from all wars and all marine casualties). This is a book
that will rile your blood.
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