Treasure Diver's Guide

by John S. Potter, Jr.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385023863
• Release Date: May 1972
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Treasure Diver's Guide

It is amazing to think that so much treasure is still in the oceans. Very informative!

A Hidden Gem for Scuba Divers

Potter's "The Treasure Diver's Guide" is a book every scuba diver who ever thought of finding treasure underwater needs to have near his bedside. This is a wonderful work on treasure diving spanning most of the know world. (Wrecks described from Hispaniola, the Antilles, Venezuela, Cuba, Yucatan, Central America, South America, Florida, Portugal, Mediterranean, South Pacific, Asia, Indian Ocean, Southeast Africa, ect. to name a few!!) Complete with a variety of maps (not detailed enough to find the treasure, but good enough to light the fire inside you!), photos of recovered booty, and a thorough compilation of underwater treasure troves around the world. I was impressed with the sheer number of wrecks included in this book, amazing! One of Potter's anecdotes struck me as quite interesting--1/3 of the world's mined gold is at the bottom of the ocean. Wow!! Super read, highly recommended--in fact only several years after this book was published, and a course of action recommended "an all-out dredging attack during the comparative calm of the summer might uncover some treasure," that the wreck of the "Whidah" off East Orleans on Cape Cod was indeed found and ripe with gold pieces of eight at that!