From the discovery of shipwrecks, to the work of the SEALAB Aquanauts, here you’ll find publications that aim to educate, share experiences that shaped history, and inspire a deeper appreciation for the underwater world and those who explore it.

From author, William J. Bunton of Death of An Aquanaut, Revealed:
“As harshly unsettling as this narration will read to some after 50 years of suppressed ambivalence, the writing of this historical tragedy is in part an overdue reconciliation of the truth based on the facts as I experienced them. And of equal importance, it is also a belated though much-deserved tribute to my long-ago comrades: those now-forgotten and never-acclaimed “SEALAB Aquanauts” of the 1960s. It was they, willing to risk their lives to achieve a visionary goal, who quite suddenly had to additionally confront the ultimate humiliation of failure in a misguided though valiant effort to inhabit the unknown hostilities of the deeper ocean depths.”

From author, Richie Kohler, Mystery of the Last Olympian
Secrets of the Sea
"The sea is hostile but without malice. For billions of years, she has spawned life and shaped this planet. Calm prevails, storms rage; there are sun-drenched expanses and fields choked with thick layers of ice. Walls of water can rise up to crash miles inland with astounding force, and harbors can rest in quiet stillness. When man decided to build along or close to her shores and set out in whatever the first crafts were, this was his choice. Humans have risked the sea’s fury, a force that is not unleashed in any way other than according to the laws of nature. Our relationship with her has evolved, and to a degree we can control her with steadily advancing technology. There are moments when she reminds us with seemingly bestial ferocity that her power is greater than our engineering, and yet when she abates, we venture out again with new ideas. She holds treasures of her own making and creatures we have never seen, much less understand. And from the moment we set out to float, paddle, and sail, maritime mysteries linked to human stories came to rest beneath her
surface. To plunge into her depths and seek to coexist in her world has spurred our imagination for millennia, and we have capabilities today that grew from the wonderings of ancestors who refused to accept we could not accomplish this. There is adventure, challenge, science, and, yes, commerce. There are men and women who are drawn to explore underwater for the pure pleasure of sharing in these amazing sights. For others, it is the unraveling of puzzles, the discovery of unknowns, and overcoming limitations to be able to stay longer and go deeper. It is a realm we enter in search of answers and often find more questions to pursue. A desire to comprehend can become a challenge, a challenge can become a quest,and a quest can extend into a saga.

So it was for me with Britannic, a magnificent ocean liner overshadowed by her sister Titanic. When I was young and watched in awe as Jacques Cousteau and his aquanauts explored underwater, I dreamed about diving alongside them. Even though early diving experiences fired my imagination, they were not a premonition of the unexpected turn my life was to take. Whether by coincidence or fate, I was later caught by the lure of maritime mysteries. In “science and engineering meets history,” diving as a teenager in warm waters changed dramatically with my adult discovery of deep shipwrecks. I plunged into the realm of shadow diving made famous in Robert Kurson’s book Shadow Divers, about our six-year saga to identify U-869 , a World War II U-boat. The television series Deep Sea Detectives followed, and there was no turning back from my passion to seek answers hidden beneath the sea as I gained access to shipwrecks around the world. My desire to know each ship’s history intensified, and I wanted to have a sense of the people whose lives were altered and sometimes tragically shattered. Of all the shipwrecks I have descended onto, Britannic is the most mysterious, her brief, doomed glory wrapped in irony."

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Mystery of the Last Olympian by Richie Kohler

Death of an Aquanaut, Revealed, by William J. Bunton

 

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