Submerged - Hardcover

Describes the exploits and adventures of Daniel Lenihan and his elite Submerged Cultural Resources Unit of the U.S. National Park Service, detailing their discoveries of ruins of ancient cultures underwater, their assignment to map the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor, their journey to shipwrecks around the world, and other remarkable experiences.

Daniel Lenihan, winner of the George Melendez Wright Award for Excellence, has been diving as a park ranger and archeologist for the National Park Service since 1972, and founded the Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (SCRU) in 1976 before being appointed the first chief in 1980. Over the last 25 years, Lenihan and the SCRU team have been the subject of national media stories and many TV documentaries on CBS, ABC, BBC, CNN, PBS, The Discovery and History Channels, and National Geographic. He has written frequently for Natural History and American History, and co-authored, with Gene Hackman, the well-received sea adventure novel Wake of the Perdido Star. A native New Yorker, he lives with his family in Santa Fe, NM.