Originally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Gary Kinder\'s Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, two hundred miles off the Carolina coast in September 1857.
It is also a great American adventure story of the opening of Earth\'s last frontier..
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is a testament to the human will to triumph over adversity.
Gary Kinder tells an extraordinary tale of history, human drama, heroic rescue, scientific ingenuity, and individual courage.
Life magazine called it the greatest treasure ever found.
After years of intensive efforts, Tommy Thompson and the Columbus-America Discovery Group found the Central America in eight thousand feet of water, and in October 1989 they sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: Gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, journals, and even an intact cigar sealed under water for 130 years.
The SS Central America became the target of his project.
Navy, had been able to do: establish a working presence on the Deep ocean floor and open it to science, archaeology, history, medicine, and recovery.
In the 1980s, a young engineer from Ohio set out to do what no one, not even the U.
S.
It was the worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, a tragedy that remained lost in legend for over a century.
Over four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of California Gold were lost.
Originally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Gary Kinder\'s Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, two hundred miles off the Carolina coast in September 1857
