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Sitting upon my bookshelf – in a spot jokingly designated as my “grab in case of fire” section – sits a thick book with a black spine and a card catalog sticker on the gradually tattering plastic dust cover. Joseph Gores’ Marine Salvage – The Unforgiving Business of No Cure, No Pay once belonged to my Junior High School, and after a year of consistently checking it out, I ended up “losing” it by the end of the school year. To this day, I cannot remember what I paid for it, but it has turned out to be one of my most cherished investments since 1988.

Within the pages were stories which were seeds in my fertile
mind. Stories of wrecked ships which most histories have forgotten and the men
who were determined to buck all sane odds to do the impossible, often with sparse
resources, incomplete pictures of the…