Fantastic!

Kurson is masterful at telling a story within a story :) Nailed it once again!

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Great title , can’t wait to go out exploring some more

Really like the layout and story telling, great climactic points rolling into twists in the endeavours

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Kept Listening

Robert Kurson is a great storyteller. Some historical books can sound like a textbook when going into the old information. This was told like how a friend would tell you a story. It was a great listen.

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Another classic by Kurson

What’s not to love about this book? It’s got salty old divers, mob stories, pirate stories, discovery, hard times all in an 8 hour story. Stop reading this and listen to it now.

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Fantastic adventure

Great story & even better because it’s true. Many of us recreational divers can only dream of such an adventure even if we don’t have the will,determination, abilities or willing to tolerate the risk. So instead, we can live it vicariously through these brilliant men. The narrator is awesome & has the exceptional ability to “tell the story by painting an audible picture for us & keeping us on the edge of our seat.” I listened to the last few chapters with my five gear on. Lol Well done!!

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Bias over subject matter.

in spite of my bias, the characters are inspiring in that they are so driven in their endeavor. I got a real sense of the world of diving and gained perspective on dive clubs.

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amazing book

This book was a true delight. I love pirates ☠ as a child and this was such a good storey full of cool facts.

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Seems exaggerated

It's decent, but I feel that the author really had to stretch out the source material to make it into a book.
I was just interested in the story about the search for the pirate ship, but so many detours are taken. I got tired of hearing about how manly and cool and smart Joseph Bannister was. I feel there was excessive detail about the personal stories of each individual on the search team. And did I mention how cool and clever Joseph Bannister was? He faced down two frigates at once!
There's also some weird romanticisation of pirates, talking about how they all got an equal vote on the ship, how the captain was only paid 2-3x what a typical crewman made, and how pirates were more enlightened than everyone else, because they had freed slaves serving on their crews, over a hundred years before slavery was made illegal in America. Or something like that.
Did I mention how super daring and cool Joseph Bannister is? And how he fought two frigates and won? and how we need to think like him if we want to find his ship? Because the book retreads this like, a dozen times.
I just feel like the author is blowing this whole thing out of proportion. Is finding a pirate ship REALLY such a big deal? The author insists upon it so many times, that I'm not so sure anymore. Actually, most of the search results for "Golden Fleece" just point back to stuff that these guys have written. The Golden Fleece doesn't even have its own wikipedia page. Not that that's a particularly good benchmark for measuring importance. Ah, whatever. I have no idea what I'm talking about.
I did find several parts of the book enjoyable, but ultimately it wasn't my cup of tea.

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Good but too much NY mafia

I was looking forward to the trials and tribulations of searching for pirate ships, however, the filler stories sometimes seemed unnecessary. In particular, the extended story about the mafia life in New York was a bit much. You can skip that and be quite Awestruck by what it takes to find these vessels.

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