Shipwrecks: Exploring Sunken Cities Beneath the Sea

I bought this for a 12 year old and he really likes sunken ships and things and he seemed to really like this book. It was informational and had nice pics at the same time.

I just purchased this for our 6-year-old grandson, and he loves it. Lot of information, along with excellent photos and illustrations. It's appropriate for children in the six to 9 year old range.

Bought this book for my teenage son. He has really been enjoying it. We were pleased with the book and service we received.

rather brief for a real book

Captain Thomas Chamberlain and his crew most likely became more and more fearful and hurricane force winds buffeted the "Henrietta Marie." The ship went down "thirty-five miles west of the Florida Keys" in 1700 and was not discovered until 1972 on the sandy ocean floor In "about twenty-five feet of murky water." Corey Malcom directed the search and his divers used everything from ping pong paddles to move the sand to a magnetometer, a "survey tool" used to find iron objects. Creatures of the deep had made their home in and around the ship, but the crew began to find some interesting things. They found "almost one hundred pairs" of shackles. Just what kind of a ship was this and what kinds of secrets were hidden on the bottom of the ocean floor?Almost two centuries later another ship dubbed the "Portland" ran into a similar situation. On November 16, 1898, a storm named "The Portland Gale" after this luxury ship, an "overnight boat," began to batter it mercilessly. It was later theorized that the ship suffered a slow and terrifying death. One hundred ninety-two passengers and crew perished. Only forty bodies were recovered, but the most mystifying things were the "watches [that] washed ashore." They all said 9:30, but was this in the morning or at night? The ship was not located until 1978, but how did they find it and what would they discover because "fishes are the crew of the `Portland' now?"The reader will be mesmerized by the shipwrecks and will also learn how they became magnets "for marine creatures." Everyone loves a treasure hunt and this book was exciting from the first page to the last. We not only learn about these mysterious ships, but also about a "living ocean community, where marine animals have made their home in a sanctuary that suddenly appeared in the vastness of the ocean." Learning about the marine life was almost as interesting for me as the shipwrecks. Each ship attracted a different type of life. There are numerous informative sidebars, photographs and reproductions of historical ephemera. In the back of the book is an index, a glossary and additional suggestions of things the reader can do. This was one fun book that you won't regret adding to your library!