The Great Museum of the Sea

[A]n encyclopedic but engaging history of all things related to ships, sailors and their sometimes disastrous ends… Like a museum curator who walks you through an art collection and shows you more than the brush strokes on a canvas, Mr. Delgado explains that shipwrecks are not simply remnants of ancient vessels. * The Wall Street Journal *A superb overview of shipwrecks, covering hundreds of wrecks from around the world, from the most-famous examples to local fishing boats, and covering a timespan from antiquity to the Cold War. … Delgado is a master storyteller. * Andrea Hamel, Current Archaeology *A truly fascinating book about the human history of shipwrecks. * Katy Stickland, Practical Boat Owner *

James P. Delgado is Senior Vice President of SEARCH, Inc., the leading cultural resources firm in the United States. Before that, he was Director of Maritime Heritage for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and President and CEO of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA). He was also host of the National Geographic international television series “The Sea Hunters” featuring best-selling author Clive Cussler. Author of more than 20 books, including War at Sea and The Curse of the Somers, more than a hundred scholarly and popular magazine articles, and a regular guest in documentary films, he is senior consultant and regularly appears in National Geographic’s international television series “Drain the Oceans.” For decades he has led diving and excavation teams, most recently at the site of the wreck of the Clotilda, the last ship known to have brought slaves to the United States.