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Lenihan...takes his readers on an adventure-packed ride that rivals any Clive Cussler tome, stopping along the way at such diverse wreck sites as the Aleutian Islands and Bikini Atoll.

Archaeology Magazine

Lenihan and his colleagues have shown just how much can be learned from the careful scientific excavation of shipwrecks. The artifacts on such a site are like pieces of a complex puzzle that, with care, can tell a great deal about shipboard life, trade, fishing, or military practices at the time.

The Christian Science Monitor

The style of Submerged is both dynamic and considered, combining a no-holds-barred explanation of taken risks and laid-bare mistakes, with a considerable intellectual and academic understanding of sites and situations.

Historical Diving Times

Divers, especially wreck diving enthusiasts, will find Lenihans book interesting and the adventures fascinating. Submerged is a unique adventure book and also a record of the historic and social significance of the underwater research programs conducted by this unit of the US National Park Service.

DiveNews.com

Submerged takes readers on an exciting tour of some of the worlds most interesting dive sites and provides them with a fascinating glimpse into the world of underwater archaeology .

Sport Diver

Submerged introduces readers to some of the basic concepts involved in searching, mapping, documenting, and recovering items in water, that varies from a few feet to hundreds of feet deep, clear to murky conditions.

The Bloomsbury Review

An adventure-filled memoir Displaying a passion for extreme diving combined with disciplined professionalism as park ranger-archeologists, the SCRU team tackled astonishing, often harrowing assignments, which Lenihan chronicles.

Arrowhead, newsletter,
the National Park Service

An edge-of-your-seat story that succinctly illustrates the danger of wreck exploration. Lenihans enthusiasm and obvious love for uncovering the past is infectious.

The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)

Every water-oriented reader will be enthralled by Lenihans underwater world, the historical significance of many of the teams investigations, and the derring-do of individual divers.

Maine Harbors

As a nondiver, it was thrilling to be allowed access to this bizarre and profound environment. After watching Lenihan and his team battle such dangers as freezing waters, sharks, Mexican federales, or just plain bad luck, I came away with feelings of awe, envy, respect, and a deep conviction that wild horses couldnt drag me into this job.

A reader from Naperville, IL

Armchair adrenalineSubmerged reels you in with compelling writing about history , archeology, respect for our resources, and most of all, true adventure. The best surprise is that Lenihan, a scientist and government employee, is witty.

A reader from Maryland

An engaging, articulate, and suspenseful writer, Lenihan shows the often daring and dangerous side of being an underwater park ranger.Submerged took me to eerie and beautiful underwater places Id never have the courage to go myself.

A reader from Henniker, NH

I recommend reading the chapter about diving at the site of the USS Arizona. The author, at first trying to keep his distance, gradually comes to terms with his feelings about the ship and the thousand or so young men who lost their lives on one bright day in Pearl Harbor.

A reader from Washington, DC

Superb. I highly recommend this book about underwater archeology. My previous experience with archeology was Harrison Ford and the pursuit of the Holy Grail. The authors intriguing account of his career, from exploring a Civil War submarine to Pearl Harbor, reaffirms my belief that archeology is one of the most fascinating professions in research.

A reader from North Carolina

If you have an interest in diving, sunken ships, the preservation of cultural resources, the National Park Service, or just enjoy rousing good tales of underwater adventure, I can definitely recommend Submerged

.A reader from Whittier, CA

Submerged has action-adventure throughout, underwater exploration with intrigue and full of information about early diving and salvage.

A reader from Cincinnati, OH

Lenihan gives bone-chilling accounts of diving situations involving caves, polluted waters and other truly extreme variablesFor anyone interested at all in the ethics of preservation or the insanity of adventure.

A reader from San Diego, CA

To Calvin R. Cummings

SITES DIVED BY THE NPS SCRU TEAM (excluding South Seas)

A passion for extreme diving combines with a vocation as a Park Ranger/Archeologist. Diving caves in Florida and Mexico and shipwrecks in the frigid water of Lake Superior and behind dams in the desert southwest hone the skills needed to form a permanent cadre of underwater archeologists in the National Park Service: The Submerged Cultural Resources Unit or SCRU Team.

The foghorn from the Rock of Ages light at the southern end of Isle Royale National Park wails ominously every five seconds. Its usual dreamy quality is strangely foreboding, oppressive this afternoon. There is no fog about our boat, though the lighthouse is shrouded with wisps of Lake Superior mist. Patches of sunlight play over the glass-calm water surrounding five National Park Service divers grouped on the fantail of the thirty-eight foot motor vessel Superior Diver. The date is June 15, 1982. No one speaks as we intently study the emerald-green expanse of Lake Superior from the stern of our anchored vessel. No flicker of movement, no slick undulating circle disturbs the verdant glassnothing that would indicate the presence of a divers bubbles boiling to the surface. They are late... very late, and unspoken fear is tangible. The rising tension has become a sixth member of the team gathered on the deck.

A stopwatch suspended to a clipboard at the divemaster station ticks relentlessly. The mundane instrument has suddenly assumed an unprecedented degree of importance. If the ticking isnt an indicator that hope is fleeting fast, the foghorns plaintive wailing leaves no room for doubt.

I am conscious of a faint slapping against the hull from the wake of a passing boat, and the damp smell of lake water steaming off the recently doffed neoprene dive suits lying on the deck. Body heat, a sign of life; its not hard to make a connection to the two suits still more than one hundred feet below in the thirty-four degree lake water.

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