In many ways this reads more as a textbook that a casual read. The author is very thorough in his descriptions. It is interesting that this is also the history of under water archaeology, that did not really begin until the late 1940s after Jacque Cousteau had created the modern scuba diving system. The shipwrecks are described starting with the oldest that have been salvaged and goes up to a shipwreck from WW2. His descriptions are good and intriguing, and do make we want to visit some of these wrecks that have been salvaged, like the English ship the Mary Rose.
