Last New Guinea Salvage Pirate, The

SHIPWRECKS DIVING PAPUA NEW GUINEA –

A personal account of some fifteen years of diving among Japanese naval and merchant ships littering the ocean floor off the coast of Papua New Guinea after the end of the Pacific War. Chronicles the risks of salvaging anything of value with poor equipment, in a hostile environment and at death defying depths.

First Edition.

• 497 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. #280226

• • Herscheid, Fritz Richard
  • Salvage — Papua New Guinea — History
  • Shipwrecks — Papua New Guinea — History
  • Scuba diving — Papua New Guinea
  • Signed by Author (inscription). Light shelf wear to jacket edge.
  • SCARCE