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Wrecked: A Deep Dive into the World's Most Famous Shipwrecks
Take a journey deep below the waves, down to the seabed and explore some of the most famous shipwrecks, including the Titanic, the Odysseus and the Endurance...
There are over three million shipwrecks on Earth. They are many things at memorials to lives lost, science experiments, treasure chests, works of art, and home to millions of living creatures.
They are time machines, allowing modern explorers a glimpse into the past.
From spacecraft and fighter planes to exploration vessels, merchant ships and cruise liners, discover the gripping stories of conflict and courage behind some of the world's most iconic shipwrecks.
Contains the following
· The SS Eduard Bohlen
· The Endurance
· USS Kittiwake
· Nan Hai
· Clotilda
· Titanic
· The Odysseus
· HMS Victoria
· HMAS Sydney and Cormoran
· Vasa
There are over three million shipwrecks on Earth. They are many things at memorials to lives lost, science experiments, treasure chests, works of art, and home to millions of living creatures.
They are time machines, allowing modern explorers a glimpse into the past.
From spacecraft and fighter planes to exploration vessels, merchant ships and cruise liners, discover the gripping stories of conflict and courage behind some of the world's most iconic shipwrecks.
Contains the following
· The SS Eduard Bohlen
· The Endurance
· USS Kittiwake
· Nan Hai
· Clotilda
· Titanic
· The Odysseus
· HMS Victoria
· HMAS Sydney and Cormoran
· Vasa
64 pages, Hardcover
Published April 8, 2025
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November 11, 2025
A tour of some of the most famous shipwrecks in the world, those both accidentally sunk or sunk on purpose (to create a reef or in a war). Each shipwreck gets 2-4 pages with detailed, full-page illustrations of the wreck, historical information about the ship/vessel, and some scientific information about marine archaeology, reefs, and more.
The large illustrations and the bite size sections this is broken up into make the book fly by pretty fast. It is informative, easy to read, and draws you in with the illustrations. I can see those interested in real life tragedies, marine archaeology, and divers being interested in this book (it highlights a lot of popular dive sites). The bit about the photograph of the possible iceberg that struck the Titanic with a red stripe on it is a historical detail I’ve never read in any other book. There were many interesting tidbits for random fact sponges in this.
Notes on content:
Language: None
Sexual content: None
Violence: Deaths in shipwrecks are talked about, no graphic details. Sobering, but not scarring.
Ethnic diversity: Wreck locations and ships from origins around the world are featured.
LGBTQ+ content: None specified.
Other: Dangers of sea travel may make some readers about to go on boats nervous, know the reader you hand this to.
The large illustrations and the bite size sections this is broken up into make the book fly by pretty fast. It is informative, easy to read, and draws you in with the illustrations. I can see those interested in real life tragedies, marine archaeology, and divers being interested in this book (it highlights a lot of popular dive sites). The bit about the photograph of the possible iceberg that struck the Titanic with a red stripe on it is a historical detail I’ve never read in any other book. There were many interesting tidbits for random fact sponges in this.
Notes on content:
Language: None
Sexual content: None
Violence: Deaths in shipwrecks are talked about, no graphic details. Sobering, but not scarring.
Ethnic diversity: Wreck locations and ships from origins around the world are featured.
LGBTQ+ content: None specified.
Other: Dangers of sea travel may make some readers about to go on boats nervous, know the reader you hand this to.
June 9, 2026
The cover made lots of promises that the insides did not fulfill. Everything seems to be thrown together and the shipwreck choices were off.
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