Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Baiae, an ancient Roman city lost to the same volcanoes that entombed Pompeii. But unlike Pompeii, Baiae sits under water, in the Bay of Naples. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the city was an escape for Rome's rich and powerful elite, a place where they were free of the social restrictions of Roman society.

"Shipwrecked! is an adventure-filled nonfiction book for young readers about the most captivating shipwrecks from history. Combining new research, ... archival material, and vivid storytelling, [the book] dives deep into the world of marine archaeology and shows young readers what each discovery reveals about the world before our time"--

Explores the field of marine archaeology, describing how scientists locate, explore, excavate, and preserve ancient shipwrecks, the dangers involved, and the historical and cultural significance of such finds.

The reader is asked to adopt the role of a marine archaeologist exploring the sea for the wreckage of the Titanic. Features die-cut cardboard shapes which can be assembled into a model of the Titanic complete with pull-out and lift-the-flap sections.

Re-creates the story of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.

Discusses the use of new technology in efforts to retrieve artifacts from the ocean floor, the exploration of shipwrecks such as the Vasa, Mary Rose, and Titanic, and the recovery of the Challenger spacecraft.

Through a quirky set of circumstances, Lara McClintoch finds herself in a partnership with her ex-husband Clive Swain. Clive has grandiose ideas, but expects everyone else to do the work to make them happen. Lara put up with Clive because her best friend is involved with him. She reluctantly agrees to his latest scheme to draw attention to their antique business starting with her acting as a tour guide to the ancient and mysterious North African country...

A pile of lime-encrusted shackles discovered on the seafloor in the remains of a ship called the Henrietta Marie, lands Michael Cottman, a Washington, D.C.-based journalist and avid scuba diver, in the middle of an amazing journey that stretches across three continents, from foundries and tombs in England, to slave ports on the shores of West Africa, to present-day Caribbean plantations. This is more than just the story of one ship - it's the untold...

This book describes a research expedition to study a shipwreck from the fifth century B.C. off the coast of Crete.

World War II saw the greatest ever loss of ships and lives at sea. Beneath the ocean lies a hidden graveyard of ships and submarines. Now, we drain this vast graveyard and each vessel tells its tale. From the USS Arizona in Pear Harbor's shallows, whose destruction brought America into the war, to Nazi super-ship the Bismarck three miles down, to the Allies' costly D-Day beachhead and the troopship Leopold, we find that danger still lurks today.