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New york times bestseller named one of the best books of the year by chicago tribune a thrilling adventure of danger and deepsea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of shadow divers finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. Ostensibly, this is the story of two treasure hunters, john mattera and john chatterton, who descend upon the dominican republic in search of the pirate joseph bannisters ship, the golden fleece. Jun 18, 2015 there has been one confirmed pirate ship wreck in the past 400 years. Chatterton and mattera had been set to begin a search for a spanish galleon when treasure hunter tracy bowden. John and his partner, john mattera, had a dive shop called, pirates cove dive center. Pirate hunters tells a compellingly true tale of a lost. John chatterton and john mattera were days away from launching a quest theyd been planning for two years, a search for the treasure ship san bartolome, sunk in. Until chatterton and mattera discovered the resting place.
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Grew up in staten island with people associated with the gambini crime family. While the nonfiction narrative recounts this high watermark of piracy, the majority of the book takes place between 2008 and 2012 as a pair of indefatigable treasure hunters john chatterton and john mattera attempts to locate golden fleece, a oncefearsome pirate ship. Hes been there and seen it, touched it, recovered it. But two menjohn chatterton and john matteraare willing to risk. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read pirate hunters. Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. To mattera, history was more than just a collection of old stories. Treasure, obsession, and the search for a legendary pirate ship is a new york times bestselling nonfiction book by robert kurson recounting the discovery of the pirate ship the golden fleece by two american divers, john chatterton and john mattera. Jun 16, 2015 a look inside the world of professional treasure hunters, focused on the search for a sunken pirate ship.
Kursons new book pirate hunters follows chatterton again, though this time hes searching for a ship, not its identity. The author reveals the psyche and determination of archaeologists john chatterton former host of history channels deep sea detectives and john mattera in their search for the golden fleece wreck near santo domingo in the dominican republic, and what results is a fascinating historical account of the pirate joseph bannister. We are robert kurson author, john chatterton and john. To be fair, its not clear whether the iffy reasoning is the divers or the authors. Chatterton has joined forces with john mattera, a bodyguard turned diver. This nonfiction book focuses on deep sea divers john chatterton and john mattera. But two menjohn chatterton and john matteraare willing to risk everything to find the golden fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate joseph bannister. I know that john chatterton is a world renown diver. Pirate hunters the search for the golden fleece book. John chatterton, featured in shadow divers, has already teamed up with divertreasure hunter history buff john mattera when they are approached by treasure hunter tracy bowden to find the wreck of the pirate ship the golden fleece.
Im the author of a few books, most notably shadow divers, the true story of two wreck divers who found and risked everything to explore a real german uboat sunk 60 miles off the coast of new jersey. Captain kidd has gone down in history as americas most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying dozens of treasure chests up and down the eastern seaboard. Pirate hunters is the story of two us divers, john chatterton and john mattera, finding the lost pirate ship golden fleece of captain joseph bannister in the waters off the dominican republic in 2008. Howard ehrenberg pirate hunter, shipwreck finder, and. A gripping account of two courageous divers quest to uncover the shipwrecked vessel of joseph bannister, one of historys most infamous pirates. John mattera, figure out where the golden fleece waits for them with all its. Mattera first became a certified diver in 1976, exploring. Traces the highstakes quest of john mattera and shadow divers john chatterton to find the lost pirate ship of joseph bannister, discussing their teamwork with technologyeschewing tracy bowden and the story behind bannisters elusive treasure. There is a great deal of information presented, so you really get to know the story behind the infamous pirate, joseph bannister fascinating. At large during the golden age of piracy in the seventeenth century, bannisters exploits would have been.
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For all of robert kursons efforts to fill his latest book, pirate hunters, with hyperbolic thrills. In a battle against two british war ships, the golden fleece went down in 1687, where it has rested in peace ever since. How john mattera, shipwreck explorer, spends his sundays. In the summer of 2008, my friend john chatterton invited me to come to samana, in the dominican republic, to check out his dive operation and do some technical dive training.
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