Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, Gary Kinder (4)
This true story of a shipwreck, discovery and recovery is
quite amazing. The first third of the book tells the harrowing story of a ship
in the 1850’s struggling to carry it’s California gold rush gold back to New
York City. Mr. Kinder has you holding your breath as a terrible Atlantic storm
hits the ship and the passengers struggle to survive. The second third is far
less hair-raising as it jumps back to modern day (the 1980’s) as a describes
the person and processes used to possibly one day discover and recover the
wreckage of the ship. This section lagged a bit for me. The descriptions of
equipment and discoveries were interesting, but rather long-winded. The last
third of the book picked up again with the rush to find and hold onto the
shipwreck before someone else gets there. While the story of the discovery of
one of the most famous and profitable (over 20 tons of gold!) shipwrecks was
amazing, unfortunately the not yet published epilogue is disturbing. Apparently
Tommy Thompson, the creative genius who came up with the inventive equipment
and processes for finding the wreck is now a federal fugitive believed to have
escaped with much of the gold!
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