This volume in Gary Gentile's Popular Dive Guide Series covers the most well-known wrecks sunk off the geographical coasts of Rhode Island and Connecticut. For each of the wrecks covered, a statistical sidebar provides basic information such as the dates of construction and loss, previous names (if any), tonnage and dimensions, builder and owner at time of loss, port of registry, type of vessel and how it was propelled, cause of sinking, location (with loran coordinates if known), and depth. In most cases, a historical photograph or illustration of the ship leads the text. Throughout the book is scattered a selection of color underwater photographs, some of the wrecks, and more often of typical marine life found in the area. This volume is full of fascinating narratives of triumph and tragedy, of heroism and disgrace, of human nature at its best and its basest. This book is not about wood and steel, but about flesh and blood, for every shipwreck saga is a human story. Ships may founder, run aground, burn, collide with other vessels, or be torpedoed by a German U-boat. In every case, however, what is emphatically important is what happened to the people who became victims of casualty -- how they survived, how they died. Also includes a bibliography of suggested reading, and a list of more than 400 loran numbers of wrecks in and adjacent to the area covered.
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