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donnamatrix · 01-11-2006, 11:08 AM

I loved Shadow Divers, both the book and the the television special. Another excellent book, published back in 1996 or 1997 is called Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. It's the true story of the sinking of the Central America side wheeler. In 1857, the Central America, a sidewheel steamer ferrying passengers fresh from the gold rush of California to New York and laden with 21 tons of California gold, encountered a severe storm off the Carolina coast and sank, carrying more than 400 passengers and all her cargo down with her. She then sat for 132 years, 200 miles offshore and almost two miles below the ocean's surface--a depth at which she was assumed to be unrecoverable--until 1989, when a deep-water research vessel sailed into the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, fat with salvaged gold coins and bullion estimated to be worth one billion dollars. Herndon, Virginia is named after the captain of the Central America. Excellent reading.

I am also a certified NAUI diver.

01-11-2006, 11:08 AM	#13
donnamatrix Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Moultonboro Posts: 833 Thanks: 24 Thanked 258 Times in 120 Posts	Another good book I loved Shadow Divers, both the book and the the television special. Another excellent book, published back in 1996 or 1997 is called Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. It's the true story of the sinking of the Central America side wheeler. In 1857, the Central America, a sidewheel steamer ferrying passengers fresh from the gold rush of California to New York and laden with 21 tons of California gold, encountered a severe storm off the Carolina coast and sank, carrying more than 400 passengers and all her cargo down with her. She then sat for 132 years, 200 miles offshore and almost two miles below the ocean's surface--a depth at which she was assumed to be unrecoverable--until 1989, when a deep-water research vessel sailed into the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, fat with salvaged gold coins and bullion estimated to be worth one billion dollars. Herndon, Virginia is named after the captain of the Central America. Excellent reading. I am also a certified NAUI diver.