Deep-Sea Detectives

An aging American coal carrier goes down in a winter storm off the Virginia coast. Only three of the crew of 34 survive; the rest perish in the ice-cold water. Was the dead captain at fault? Did the mate neglect safety precautions? Or did a penny-pinching management skimp on necessary maintenance?</p>The giant car-and-passenger ferry <I>Estonia</I> sinks in a gale in the Baltic Sea carrying over 800 passengers to their deaths and causing national scandals in three countries. Was she sunk by a terrorist bomb? By the CIA or the Russian secret police? Was the Russian mob involved? Was she carrying military secrets or smuggled narcotics? A massive government cover-up is suspected. What was the truth?</p>Answers to these and other fascinating cases can be found in <I>Deep-Sea Detectives: Maritime Mysteries and Forensic Science</I>. Author Peter R. Limburg explores the advances that make it possible to bring back evidence from as deep as 20000 feet below the sea.</p>'It's Sherlock Holmes with bubbles! Actually Holmes had it easy; his mysteries weren't submerged beneath miles of water. These fascinating tales of scoundrels and submersibles make for terrific adventures in the little-known world of undersea forensics.</br>-Dennis Meredith Director of Research Communications Duke University</p>