The Treasure Diver's Guide
By: John S. Potter, Jr.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 567
Subjects: Sunken treasure; Scuba diving; Marine archaeology
Genres: Non-fiction; Maritime history; Archaeology
First sentence: "The world's waterways can be compared to an enormous treasure bank." (from the Introduction)
Description: The Treasure Diver's Guide was written in the early years of scuba-diving, before the scientific methods of modern marine archaeologists had emerged.   It was, however, and still is, a popular book in the Florida Keys with its many accounts of sunken Spanish treasure fleets, Spanish galleons, and shipwreck exploration, research, and identification.  Its twenty-nine chapters constitute a treasure of information themselves on topics as diverse as Manila galleons, ballast mounds, and shipwrecks like that of La Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, a 600 ton galleon of the 1586 Armada of the Indies.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [509]-536.
Table of contents: title: The Golden Galleons; title: Research, Search, and Salvage; title: "Ghost Galleons" and Treasures Already Salvaged; title: Wreck Identification - I